12-Letter Words Starting with S

""-fies , -fying , -fied (Chemistry) (tr) to convert (starch) into sugar saccharification  , saccharization , saccharisation n""

SCHISMATIZE To make part in schism; to make a breach of communion in the church.

Scintillate

(Of houses) joined in pairs

Decide Thames could do for a house

Type of house

FINISHED finish

""Having the anterior toes joined only part way down with a web; half-webbed; as, a semipalmate bird or foot. See Illust. k under Aves.as, a semipalmate bird or foot. See Illust. k under Aves.""

SEQUESTRATE To sequester.

SHARECROP

SHIRTSLEEVE

Cheated (by cashier?)

Done - with spirit transformed!

Didn't get full return for your money

Heedless of the future.

Like the grasshopper of fable

Limited in one's outlook

How to get broad (wordplay)

Prepare to deal and get on with the game

Cruise-ship pastime

A herb no longer tended? That's foolish

Type of interest objected to, being foolish

SINGULARIZE To make singular or single; to distinguish.

SKELETONISE

""SKELETONIZE To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its skeleton.""

Slipstream

SOLILOQUISE

SOLILOQUIZE To utter a soliloquy; to talk to one's self.

Flipped

Soundproof

A shrub for the huntress

SPARKPLUG

""The male germ cell in animals and plants, the essential element in fertilization; a microscopic animalculelike particle, usually provided with one or more cilia by which it is capable of active motion. In animals, the familiar type is that of a small, more or less ovoid head, with a delicate threadlike cilium, or tail. Called also spermatozo\'94n. In plants the more usual term is antherozoid. spermatozo\'94n. In plants the more usual term is antherozoid.""

Being single could make person do this

""Bred in conformity to a standard. Specif., applied to a registered trotting horse which comes up to the standard adopted by the National Association of Trottinghorse Breeders.""

STANDARDISE

""STANDARDIZE To reduce to a normal standard; to calculate or adjust the strength of, by means of, and for uses in, analysis.""

Stickhandle

Unfeeling - like Olive (wordplay)

Devoid of feeling for others

Feeling callous? Then destroy a settlement

Storyboard

Upset due to threats, but resolute

Courageous, resolute

Courageous

STRAIGHT to make {straight=adj}

Put in order

Way of presenting gender that is not kinky

Hulk Hogan's choker (wordplay)

Force that menaces freedom.

Complete power over a situation

""Having the circulation stopped by compression; attended with arrest or obstruction of circulation, caused by constriction or compression; as, a strangulated hernia. as, a strangulated hernia.""

Made more robust

Reinforced

Stringhalt

IRRIGATED irrigate

OPTIMIZED optimize

ORDINATED ordinate

SATURATED saturate

""THRESHOLD The plank, stone, or piece of timber, which lies under a door, especially of a dwelling house, church, temple, or the like; the doorsill; hence, entrance; gate; door.""

URBANISED urbanise

URBANIZED urbanize

VOCALIZED vocalize

Very quick, huge car sped round corner, finally

Placed on top

Set over? Fantastic, I'm ready for my close-up!

""SUPERINDUCE To bring in, or upon, as an addition to something.""

Superpower

""SUPERSCRIBE To write or engrave (a name, address, inscription, or the like) on the top or surface; to write a name, address, or the like, on the outside or cover of (anything); as, to superscribe a letter. as, to superscribe a letter.""

Supplement

SWASHBUCKLE

Switchback

SYLLABICATE To form or divide into syllables; to syllabify.

Drenching my own missis, ridiculous sport

SYNCHRONIZE To agree in time; to be simultaneous.

SYSTEMATISE

""SYSTEMATIZE To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas.""