12-Letter Words Starting with S

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

""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.""

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

I can't get no - (Rolling Stones)

The Stones couldn't get it

Fulfillment ... and #2 on the list

Noun (-tion)

Person incapable of concentration

Person unable to think clearly

One who cannot concentrate

Division into parts

Female minister? She's a fighter

Female in the forces

Wasp

A man who is a member of the armed forces.

Person in seventh decade

Person in their sixties

Arrived between 1943-1952 for one from the sixties

The cardinal number equal to 10 51 .

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

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.

Earnest request

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

""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 .

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

Numerical data analyst

One analysing data

One analysing numerical facts

Issue to be brought up on remarriage

""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.""

A tennis tutor (anagram) - sneezing

Any of several hemolysins derived from some strains of streptococci.

New "wonder drug" from fungi

One of the "wonder" drugs.

The act of stridulating.

""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.""

""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.""

Total astonishment and shock

Shocked astonishment

Extreme astonishment

""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.""

An under or assistant librarian.

Regular payment

Membership fee

Copy-editor number one upset by writing fee

Replacement of one thing by another

Replacement

Wonderful period of play when there's replacement (wordplay)

SUPERSTATE SUPERS super

See blurb (nonverbal)

Stevie Wonder hit

Bad-luck bringer, e.g

A following on in addition

""The act of supplicating; humble and earnest prayer, as in worship.""

""The act of sustaining, or the state of being sustained; preservation from falling; support; sustenance; maintenance.""