12-Letter Words Starting with S

In a serpentine manner.

The shadbush or one of its fruit.

Female minister? She's a fighter

Female in the forces

Wasp

A man who is a member of the armed forces.

""Capable of being severed or separated; separable into legally distinct rights or obligations, as a contract.""

Sewability

Person in seventh decade

Person in their sixties

Arrived between 1943-1952 for one from the sixties

Sexagesimal

The cardinal number equal to 10 51 .

Sextodecimo

SEXTUPLE to make six times as great

Shabbiness

How Hank Marvin etc warmed up (wordplay)

Sparring with oneself (wordplay)

Sparring with an imaginary opponent

Shagginess

Abstract noun (-ity)

Shattering

Sheepberry

""A person who herds sheep, especially on an open range; a shepherd.""

Shy embarrassment

Embarrassment

A woolly state ... or an embarrassed one (wordplay)

Shellacking

""SHELLFISH Any aquatic animal whose external covering consists of a shell, either testaceous, as in oysters, clams, and other mollusks, or crustaceous, as in lobsters and crabs.""

Shergottite

Shiftiness

Shinplaster

Vital war workers

Despatch something from site to Noah's family

They make models of Jeanie Johnston perhaps for Harland and Wolff

Type of construction at, eg, Govan, Barrow

Crew's excited, gathering in monarch's smashing boat

Shirtdress

SHIRTSLEEVE

(In) jacketless state

Symbol of informality.

Being in these one has no jacket on

Shittimwood

Shoddiness

Defects (eg of character)

Defects turning up in trousers

Limitations of concise US poet, it's said

Shortcut

Heedless of the future.

Like the grasshopper of fable

Limited in one's outlook

Showmanship

Informal A performance or performer that evokes so much applause from the audience that the show is temporarily interrupted.

SHREWISH ill-tempered

Shrievalty

Shrillness

Sickliness

Sideslip

Sidestepper

Evading, in a way

Desist moving forest as evasive action

Avoidance behaviour that is seen in South Essex town

Creating distraction, wrongly directs a monarch

Importance; meaning

Importance, meaning

Notice I intended to limit chapter's importance

The quality or state of being significant.

Silentness

""SILHOUETTE A representation of the outlines of an object filled in with a black color; a profile portrait in black, such as a shadow appears to be.""

""SILHOUETTE A representation of the outlines of an object filled in with a black color; a profile portrait in black, such as a shadow appears to be.""

Sillimanite

Silverfish

Silverpoint

Some metalworkers

See Sylviculture. Sylviculture.

Parallels with IRA missile, it is broadcast

Resemblances is up to militaries on manoeuvres

It's much the same for one getting draws from matches

Simoniacal

A herb no longer tended? That's foolish

Type of interest objected to, being foolish

Simpleness

Simplicial

Simplicity

Simulcast

The quality or state of being simultaneous; simultaneousness.

Happening at the same time

Done at the same time

Occurring at same time

Sinfonietta

Sinfulness

Singleness

Singlestick

SINGULARIZE To make singular or single; to distinguish.

Singularize

SINISTER portending evil

Sinusoidal

One of the Siphonophora.

""Botany A type of stele in which the vascular cylinder surrounds a pith, as in the stem of the sunflower.""

SKELETONISE

Skeletonise

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

""Any small moth whose larva eats the parenchyma of leaves, leaving the skeleton; as, the appleleaf skeletonizer. as, the appleleaf skeletonizer.""

Skeletonize

SKILLESS without skill

""SKILLFUL having skill, also SKILFUL, SKILLY""

Skimpiness

Skinniness

SKITTISH easily frightened

Shooting up, in a way

Fast-rising TV company playing loud music, and French being gripped

Slanginess

""Slaphappier , slaphappiest Slang Dazed, silly, or incoherent from or as if from blows to the head; punch-drunk.""

Slaughter

Holding persons in slavery.

Slavocracy

Sleaziness

Sleepiness

Somnambulance

Somnambulation.

Somnambulism

Dieter's aim.

""The smooth, striated, or partially polished surfaces of a fissure or seam, supposed to have been produced by the sliding of one surface on another.""

Slightness

Slinkiness

The quality of being slippery.

Slipstream

Sloganeer

Sloppiness

Condition of tramp steamer carrying very much like new product ranges

SLUGGISH slow-moving

Stews: Slang.

Stews Slang.

(Economics) a situation in which economic depression is combined with increasing inflation [blend of slump + inflation ]

Slushiness

SLUTTISH {slovenly=adj}

Mini-farm, perhaps

Modest farming concern

Agricultural area, but less than a farm

Smarminess

Smithsonite

Smudginess

Smuttiness

Snappiness

SNAPPISH tending to behave in an impatient or irritable manner

Snapshot

Sneakiness

Snickersnee

Sniffiness

SNIFFISH {haughty=adj}

Sniperscope

Vulgar affectation or ostentation; mean admiration of mean things; conduct or manners of a snob.

Snootiness

Snottiness

Popular form of controlled sliding

Olympic event

Son currently joining coach, say, for winter sport

Snowmobiler

SNOWMOBILE

SNOWMOBILE

Snubbiness

The quality of being sociable.

Boy is loco and I go off, which assumes adaptive behaviour

Sociologese

""Of or pertaining to sociology, or social science.""

Sociologist

Sociometry

Injury of a photographic picture caused by exposing it for too long a time to the sun's light in the camera; burning; excessive insolation.

Soldiership

Solemnify

Earnest request

Solicitous

SOLIDARIST

Solidarity

""The slow, downhill movement of soil or other material in areas typically underlain by frozen ground.""

SOLILOQUISE

Soliloquise

Soliloquist

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

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

Does a stage routine.

Isolation (of a hermit?)

Solmization

SOLUBILISE

Solubility

SOLUBILIZE

Somatology

Somatomedin

""A polypeptide hormone produced chiefly by the hypothalamus that inhibits the secretion of various other hormones, such as somatotropin, glucagon, insulin, thyrotropin, and gastrin.""

See growth hormone .

Somerset

Sleepwalking

Not a consciously progressive type

One who is out and about

Peripatetic sleeper

Tending to produce sleep; hypnotic.

Songwriting

Boy to secure sort of genre I recognized as producing short poems

Child to secure sort of genre I recognized as producing short poems

Sonography

SOOTHING the act of soothing

Soothsaying

An experienced and knowledgeable person

Who's disported at posh cities (wordplay)

Worldly-wise type making epic that is so disorganised

Causing sleep; somniferous; soporific.

Sordidness

Spaceflight

Going outside an orbiting craft

SPACIOUS ample in extent

Spaghettini

Spanakopita

Spanokopita

Spasmolytic

Spasticity

Spatiality

Speakership

Spearfish

Leading (attack)

Taking the lead

Praised Hagen extravagantly for leading attack

SPECIALISE

""SPECIALIST One who devotes himself to some specialty; as, a medical specialist, one who devotes himself to diseases of particular parts of the body, as the eye, the ear, the nerves, etc. as, a medical specialist, one who devotes himself to diseases of particular parts of the body, as the eye, the ear, the nerves, etc.""

Speciality

SPECIALIZE To mention specialy; to particularize.

SPECIATION

Precisely, clearly

Distinctly

Precisely

Speciosity

""SPECIOUS plausible, but inaccurate""

Of or pertaining to a spectator.

Speculation

The act of making a speech or speeches.

Politician's alter ego (wordplay)

William Safire, once

Speedball

Speedboat

Speediness

Speleology

Potholer - I'll goose-step (anagram)

Footballer in alone, meaning he plumbs the depths

Pigs let loose (anagram) - one who studies caves

Powerful speakers

Sure to fascinate

Fascinating session covering books

Holding one's interest