12-Letter Words Starting with S

They have no saving graces

Pl. spermagonia also spermogonia (-n - ) A cup-shaped cavity or receptacle in which the spermatia of certain lichens and fungi are produced.

""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.""

Spermophile

Spessartine

Spessartite

Sphericity

Spheroidal

Sphingosine

Spiculation

""An alloy of iron containing approximately 15 percent manganese and small quantities of carbon and silicon, used in the Bessemer process.""

Spiffiness

Spinnerette

Being single could make person do this

SPIRITED spirit

Spiritless

Brings The Dead to life for the latecomers who have something to say (wordplay)

Brings The Dead to life for the latecomers who have something to say

Hint to the Mystery Guest's identity

Medium habit is coming in double

Seance holder.

Religious sense

""To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize soul. as, to spiritualize soul.""

Spirochaete

Spirometry

Spiteful

Petty ill will

The quality of being splendid.

Sponginess

Sponsorship

Spookiness

In a sporadic manner.

Reproduction by spores.

The sport of catching fish using a rod and reel.

Sportiness

SPORTIVE {playful=adj}

Newspaper man.

Specialist reporter

One of those in the media talking about the club - the one reporting the fights

Sporulation

Spotlight

Spottiness

Sprightful

""Sprightlier , sprightliest Full of spirit and vitality; lively; brisk.""

Gymnast's platforms

Springhouse

Springwater

Spunkiness

SPURIOUS not genuine

SQUARISH somewhat square

Squirarchy

Squirrel

Establishment.

Stagflation

Ryan Giggs let loose in striking fashion

Dog with German entering alone in amazing fashion

Abstract noun (-ity)

STANDARDISE

Standardise

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

Standardize

STANDPAT resisting or opposing change

Staphylinid

Starboard

Stationery

Numerical data analyst

One analysing data

One analysing numerical facts

Steadiness

Ninja's speciality

Furtive behaviour

Steamfitter

Steaminess

Steamroll

Steatopygia

Steeliness

Steelmaking

Shorthander's notes unusually explicit

It's related to what I've asked you to write, in short

Stenotypist

Issue to be brought up on remarriage

Stepfamily

One of a set of isomers whose molecules have the same atoms bonded to each other but differ in the way these atoms are arranged in space.

Stereology

Combining separate sources of sound

(Of sound) multi-channel

With five kicked out, criminal evicts no-hoper from two places

Plural or third person singular

""An instrument, consisting essentially of a magic lantern in which photographic pictures are used, by which the image of a landscape, or any object, may be thrown upon a screen in such a manner as to seem to stand out in relief, so as to form a striking and accurate representation of the object itself; also, a pair of magic lanterns for producing the effect of dissolving views.""

Giving the impression of depth

Describing a three-dimensional effect.

""A method in neurosurgery and neurological research for locating points within the brain using an external, three-dimensional frame of reference usually based on the Cartesian coordinate system.""

Stereotypy

""STEREOTYPE A plate forming an exact faximile of a page of type or of an engraving, used in printing books, etc.; specifically, a plate with typemetal face, used for printing.""

STERLING British money

A tennis tutor (anagram) - sneezing

""STETHOSCOPE An instrument used in auscultation for examining the organs of the chest, as the heart and lungs, by conveying to the ear of the examiner the sounds produced in the thorax.""

Stewardship

Drama ()

Drama ()

Stickhandle

STICKHANDLE

Stickhandle

Stickiness

Small spiny fish

""A sterol, C 29 H 48 O, obtained from soybeans or Calabar beans.""

""STIGMATIZE To mark with a stigma, or brand; as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers. as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers.""

Stilbestrol

Stimulation

Stinginess

Stipulation

Standard royalty brother divides, managing shares, say

Stockiness

Stockinette

The act or art of dealing in stocks; the business of a stockjobber.

Stocktaking

Stodginess

Plural or third person singular

Stomatitis

Hewing or dressing stone.

Delaying tactics? Nothing new in that!

Consistently blocking deliveries

Nothing new in holding things up or being obstructive

Storminess

Lying much indulged in by Sheherazade

Narrating tales

Relation finds right time to be stuck in traffic

Strabismus

Right now!

At once honest and distant

High speed race track section

STRAIGHT to make {straight=adj}

Hand tool used to draw lines (2 words)

Line-drawing tool

Tool for drawing a perfect line

Put in order

Way of presenting gender that is not kinky

Hair care item

Honesty is his strangest failing

A case for arms limitation (wordplay)

Something that restricts.

No sane person is likely to assume it

Straitness

Using train when no seats available (wordplay)

STRATEGIZE

That branch of geology which treats of the arrangement and succession of strata.

Pl. stratocumuli (-l ) A low-lying cloud formation occurring in extensive horizontal layers with rounded summits.

Wimbledon favourite (wordplay)

Sweet, fleshy red fruit

Brewer's art is transforming fruit

Vehicles seen at Bonneville Salt Flats (pl.)

STREAMLINE

Courses about Pale provides illumination

By the way, they're needed to see the cat's eyes

They show the way trees changed, though at first a slight change

Pathogenic bacteria

Bacteria that can cause scarlet fever, pneumonia etc.

Any of several hemolysins derived from some strains of streptococci.

New "wonder drug" from fungi

One of the "wonder" drugs.

Strictness

""STRIDULATE To make a shrill, creaking noise""

The act of stridulating.

Stridulous; able to stridulate; used in stridulating; adapted for stridulation.

Stridulous

""A horizontal band in a building, forming a part of the design, whether molded, projecting, or carved, or in any way distinguished from the rest of the work.""

Stringency

Stringhalt

Stringpiece

Stringybark

Stripteaser

""The act or phenomenon of spontaneously dividing transversely, as do certain species of annelids and helminths; transverse fission. See Illust. under Syllidian. Illust. under Syllidian.""

STROBOSCOPE An instrument for studying or observing the successive phases of a periodic or varying motion by means of light which is periodically interrupted.

Very old fossil in sedimentary rocks

Mineral Sr C O 3; attention, sir (anagram)

""A toxic glycoside or mixture of glycosides obtained from the seeds of certain plants of the genus Strophanthus, especially S. kombé, used medicinally as a cardiac stimulant.""

Studentship

STUDIOUS given to study

Stuffiness

Total astonishment and shock

Shocked astonishment

Extreme astonishment

Stupefying

Stupidness

Sturdiness

Stylization

""ANTARCTIC Opposite to the northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it, and applied especially to a circle, distant from the pole 23° 28&min;. Thus we say the antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc. antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc.""

ARACHNOID Resembling a spider's web; cobweblike.

Subaudition

Group reporting to a larger one

Group responsible for water-based craft has a job answering to others

Underground organisation possibly returns transport to council

Hyman Rickover's alma mater (wordplay)

Hidden part of the mind

Of the deeper part of the mind

Layer of the mind

Man on bench goes to Europe from India perhaps

Mounting bus, happy to be getting around in India (wordplay)

One of those on the bench approaches America for the Indians

CULTURING culture

Plural or third person singular

Subdecision

Subdirector

Subdistrict

DIVIDABLE Capable of being divided; divisible.

Land parcels.

Subdominant

Subeconomy

""EDITORIAL Of or pertaining to an editor; written or sanctioned by an editor; as, editorial labors; editorial remarks. as, editorial labors; editorial remarks.""

Situated immediately below the epidermis.

""Conversion of the cell walls into cork tissue by development of suberin; -- commonly taking place in exposed tissues, as when a callus forms over a wound. Suberized cell walls are impervious to water.""

Subglacial

SUBINFEUD

Subinterval

IRRIGATED irrigate

Subirrigate

Subjacency

Subjective

SUBJECTIVE Of or pertaining to a subject.

""Any philosophical doctrine which refers all knowledge to, and founds it upon, any subjective states; egoism.""

One who holds to subjectivism; an egoist.

The quality or state of being subjective; character of the subject.

SUBJECTIVE Of or pertaining to a subject.

Subjugation

Subjunction

In a manner of speaking, moods imagined or wished

An under or assistant librarian.

LICENSING license

Sublimation

Subliminal

Sublittoral

Subluxation

Of the lower jaw.

Submersible

MICROGRAM

Of greatly reduced size

Subminister

Submissive