12-Letter Words Starting with S

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

Saccharify

""SACCHARINE Of or pertaining to sugar; having the qualities of sugar; producing sugar; sweet; as, a saccharine taste; saccharine matter. as, a saccharine taste; saccharine matter.""

""Resembling sugar, as in taste, appearance, consistency, or composition; as, saccharoidal limestone.as, saccharoidal limestone.""

Sacculation

Profaning holy things

Sinful, naughty girls use 'Ciao'

Profane

SADISTIC pertaining to a {sadist=n}

Succumbing to pressure after secure, criminal occupation

Protecting

Safekeeping

Sea action in which Garibaldi and son may be involved

Sailboating

Salability

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a salamander; enduring fire.""

Spanish males engaged in art of commerce

Selling sand to Arabs for brewer perhaps in foreign police force is all the rage

The trick to selling small drinks to Joe from dispatch

""SALINIZE to treat with salt, also SALINISE""

Salinometer

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any solanaceous plant of the Chilean genus Salpiglossis, some species of which are cultivated for their bright funnel-shaped flowers [New Latin, from Greek salpinx trumpet + glōssa tongue]""

Saltimbocca

Salubrious

Effecting or designed to effect an improvement; remedial: salutary advice.

""SALUTATION The act of saluting, or paying respect or reverence, by the customary words or actions; the act of greeting, or expressing good will or courtesy; also, that which is uttered or done in saluting or greeting.""

""The student who pronounces the salutatory oration at the annual Commencement or like exercises of a college, an honor commonly assigned to that member of the graduating class who ranks second in scholarship.""

Salutatory

""Bringing health; healthy; salutary; beneficial; as, salutiferous air. as, salutiferous air.""

""SALVATION The act of saving; preservation or deliverance from destruction, danger, or great calamity.""

Army officer, like 10's major

Sanctimony

SANCTION to authorize

Process for cleaning or engraving

Pueblo Indian art

Native American art

Making smooth

Sanguinaria

""A tube of vitrified sand, produced by a stroke of lightning; a fulgurite""

Tin containing a beer full of energy and cheer

Of sound mind, ultimately buffered by stout optimism

Sanguinity

""SANITIZE to clean and sterilize, also SANITISE, SANITATE""

""Pertaining to, or involving, sansculottism; radical; revolutionary; Jacobinical.""

Sansevieria

""Capable of conversion into soap; as, a saponifiable substance. as, a saponifiable substance.""

Formation of numerous sarcomas in various parts of the body.

SARCOPLASM

Sardonical

Sardonicism

Non-alcoholic drink

Drink prepared from roots

Nonalcoholic root drink

I can't get no - (Rolling Stones)

The Stones couldn't get it

Fulfillment ... and #2 on the list

End of the week: is plant OK (wordplay)

Stray cat? If so, stray's OK!

Good or bad, sits a plant

So as to satisfy; satisfactorily.

Saurischian

Savoriness

Blowhards (wordplay)

Musicians

Scaffolding

SCANDALISE

""SCANDALIZE To offend the feelings of the conscience of (a person) by some action which is considered immoral or criminal; to bring shame, disgrace, or reproach upon.""

Scantiness

Scapegoat

""SCAPEGOAT A goat upon whose head were symbolically placed the sins of the people, after which he was suffered to escape into the wilderness.""

Scarifying

Preoccupied with excrement

Noun (-tion)

Person incapable of concentration

Person unable to think clearly

One who cannot concentrate

In a scattering manner; dispersedly.

Theatre stage worker

Stage worker

Theatre worker

""Of, relating to, or characteristic of scenography: "Contemporary design has a strongly scenographic appeal, as if modern rooms were meant to be stage sets" (Los Angeles Times).""

SCHEMATIZE To form a scheme or schemes.

Same as Schismatic. Schismatic.

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

Schismatize

SCHISTOSOME

Schistosome

Schizogony

""Reproduction by multiple asexual fission, characteristic of many sporozoans.""

English word

Shmaltzy

Schnorkel

Student awards

""SCHOOLBOY A boy belonging to, or attending, a school.""

Schottische

Schwarmerei

A device for producing a scintigram; a scintiscanner.

Scintillate

Scintillate

""SCINTILLATE To emit sparks, or fine igneous particles.""

Central American flycatchers

Scopolamine

Quality like that of a worn gramophone record

Film script author

One creating film script

Monitor hack who produced The Script (wordplay)

Drinks for assembly workers (wordplay)

Vodka drinks

Sounds like Philip's orange juice and vodka drinks

Screwiness

One who carves scrimshaw.

Scrimshaw

In a scriptural manner.

Wordsmith in cursive (nonverbal)

Ms may be my baby!

Wordsmith in cursive (nonverbal)

The quality or state of being scruppulous; doubt; doubtfulness respecting decision or action; caution or tenderness from the far of doing wrong or ofending; nice regard to exactness and propierty; precision.

SCRUTINISE

Scrutinizer

""SCRUTINIZE To examine closely; to inspect or observe with critical attention; to regard narrowly; as, to scrutinize the measures of administration; to scrutinize the conduct or motives of individuals. as, to scrutinize the measures of administration; to scrutinize the conduct or motives of individuals.""

Scurrility

Scurrilous

Scurviness

""Pl. scyphistomae (-m ) or scyphistomas A larva of a scyphozoan, consisting of an elongated and deeply constricted polyp that successively splits off minute, free-swimming medusas.""

Scyphistoma

Sweeping beams

The rich glass contrived for high-powered lamps

The doctrine or policy of secession; the tenets of secession; the tenets of secessionists.

One breaking away from a federation

""A white odorless barbiturate, C 12 H 18 N 2 O 3 , used in the form of its sodium salt as a sedative and hypnotic.""

Secretariat

""SECRETION The act of secreting or concealing; as, the secretion of dutiable goods. as, the secretion of dutiable goods.""

Adherence to religious groupings

To imbue with sectarian feelings; to subject to the control of a sect.

""A disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a section of the country; local patriotism, as distinguished from national.""

SECULARISE

""SECULARIST One who theoretically rejects every form of religious faith, and every kind of religious worship, and accepts only the facts and influences which are derived from the present life; also, one who believes that education and other matters of civil policy should be managed without the introduction of a religious element.""

Secularity

Secularizer

""SECULARIZE To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or a monk. as, to secularize a priest or a monk.""

SECURITIZE

SEDIMENT to settle in the bottom of a liquid

Seemliness

Division into parts

Segregation

Seigniorage

Seismicity

They record earth-shaking events

""A writing about, or a description of, earthquakes.""

Seismology

An expert at assessing faults (wordplay)

One who studies earthquakes

Earthquake scientist

Seismometer

""Of or pertaining to seismometry, or seismometer; as, seismometric instruments; seismometric measurements. as, seismometric instruments; seismometric measurements.""

Selaginella

""SELECTION The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference.""

""Containing, or impregnated with, selenium; as, seleniferous pyrites. as, seleniferous pyrites.""

Selenology

""Astronomy the branch of astronomy that studies the physical characteristics of the moon. ; selenologist , ; selenological ,""

Semantical

Semanticist

Semeiology

ABSTRACT to draw away

Every half year.

ARBOREAL tree-dwelling

Junk mail a trucker might get (wordplay)

Form of estate agent's brochure (wordplay)

Advertising flier at a truck stop (wordplay)

Semiclassic

COLONIAL a citizen of a colony

Semicolony

Dusky state

Semideify

(Of houses) joined in pairs

Decide Thames could do for a house

Type of house

""Half of a diameter; a right line, or the length of a right line, drawn from the center of a circle, a sphere, or other curved figure, to its circumference or periphery; a radius.""

DOMINANT a controlling genetic character

One who's moved closer to a win

One in last four of a contest

One of last four left in competition

FINISHED finish

FLEXIBLE able to be bent

Fruits (spelled backward) + Repeat = (wordplay)

Elite stream inappropriate - one is coming in barely able to read and write

LUSTROUS reflecting light evenly and efficiently

Of or pertaining to a semimetal; possessing metallic properties in an inferior degree; resembling metal.

MONASTIC a {monk=n}

MYSTICAL spiritually significant

""Seedbearing; producing seed; pertaining to, or connected with, the formation of semen; as, seminiferous cells or vesicles. as, seminiferous cells or vesicles.""

Seminudity

""Half official; having some official authority or importance; as, a semiofficial statement. as, a semiofficial statement.""

""Same as Semeiography, Semeiology, Semeiological.Semeiography, Semeiology, Semeiological.""

Semiologist

Semiotician

Semioticist

""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.""

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

Of value but less than a gemstone

Like some gems

Not like a girl's best friend

Items attached to highway tractors

Warm, as a climate

Semiweekly

Sempervivum

Future duration without end; the relation or state of being sempiternal.

Senatorship

Senectitude

The quality or state of being sensible; sensibility; appreciation; capacity of perception; susceptibility.

""An instrument or apparatus for comparing and grading the sensitiveness of plates, films, etc., as a screen divided into squares of different shades or colors, from which a picture is made on the plate to be tested.""

Photography

Of muscular response to nervous stimuli

Sensual.

Sensuality

""SENSUALIZE To make sensual; to subject to the love of sensual pleasure; to debase by carnal gratifications; to carnalize; as, sensualized by pleasure. as, sensualized by pleasure.""

Sensuosity

Sentinel

Quality of being separable or divisible; divisibility; separableness.

Of or pertaining to separatists; characterizing separatists; schismatical.

Once in seven years.

Septentrion

Sepulcher

Sequacious

One after the other

In succession, it's Queen badly needing friend

Confiscating band of gold after search in bishop's domain

Real, physical? Different, in the style of an angel

SERICULTURE The raising of silkworms.

Sericulture

SERIGRAPHER serigraph

Serigraphy

(In blood test) showing no virus present

Showing a positive reaction to a test on blood serum for a disease; exhibiting seroconversion.

""Activated by or capable of liberating serotonin, especially in transmitting nerve impulses: serotonergic neurons; serotonergic drugs.""