12-Letter Words Starting with S

""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.""

Sacculation

Sacramental

Sacredness

Succumbing to pressure after secure, criminal occupation

Protecting

Safekeeping

Sea action in which Garibaldi and son may be involved

Sailboating

""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

Salesperson

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

Salinometer

Sallowness

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.""

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

Army officer, like 10's major

Sanctimony

SANCTION to authorize

Graffiti removers

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""

Sansculotte

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

Sansevieria

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

Sardonical

Sardonicism

I can't get no - (Rolling Stones)

The Stones couldn't get it

Fulfillment ... and #2 on the list

So as to satisfy; satisfactorily.

Sauerbraten

Saurischian

Savageness

Savoriness

Blowhards (wordplay)

Musicians

The quality of being scabrous.

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.""

In a manner to give offense; shamefully.

Scantiness

Scapegoat

Scarceness

People who cause fear or fright

Alarmists seeing Germans score in a frenzy

Scarifying

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

""The art of representing objects in perspective, especially as applied in the design and painting of theatrical scenery.""

""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.

Schizogony

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

English word

Schnorkel

A device for producing a scintigram; a scintiscanner.

Scintillate

Scintillate

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

""Vegetable tissue composed of short cells with thickened or hardened walls, as in nutshells and the gritty parts of a pear. See Sclerotic. Sclerotic.""

Scolopendra

Scopolamine

Contemptuous quality

Quality like that of a worn gramophone record

Film script author

One creating film script

Monitor hack who produced The Script (wordplay)

Screwiness

One who carves scrimshaw.

Scrimshaw

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.""

Scuppernong

Scurviness

SEAMLESS without a seam

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

One breaking away from a federation

SECLUDED seclude

""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

""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.""

Secureness

SECURITIZE

Sedateness

SEDIMENT to settle in the bottom of a liquid

SEDULOUS {diligent=adj}

Seemliness

Division into parts

Segregation

Seigniorage

Selaginella

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

Selectness

""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 ,""

Thinking of others first

Habit of thinking of others

It's not in one's own interest to display it

SELFSAME identical

Semantical

Semanticist

Every half year.

COLONIAL a citizen of a colony

Semicolony

Dusky state

Semideify

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

MONASTIC a {monk=n}

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

Seminudity

Semiotician

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

SENSUOUS derived from the senses

Sentinel

SEPARATE to keep apart

Once in seven years.

Septentrion

Sepulcher

One after the other

In succession, it's Queen badly needing friend

Confiscating band of gold after search in bishop's domain

Sereneness

(In blood test) showing no virus present

Consisting of serum and pus.

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

In a serpentine manner.

Servanthood

Female minister? She's a fighter

Female in the forces

Wasp

A man who is a member of the armed forces.

Fractions of number in choppers to put on uniform on board

Severeness

Person in seventh decade

Person in their sixties

Arrived between 1943-1952 for one from the sixties

The cardinal number equal to 10 51 .

Shabbiness

Shacklebone

How Hank Marvin etc warmed up (wordplay)

Sparring with oneself (wordplay)

Sparring with an imaginary opponent

Shagginess

SHAMEFUL disgraceful

Shattering

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

Shy embarrassment

Embarrassment

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

Shellacking

Shiftiness

Shinplaster

Type of construction at, eg, Govan, Barrow

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

Shoddiness

Cheated (by cashier?)

Done - with spirit transformed!

Didn't get full return for your money

SHORTCHANGE

Does alteration in pants

Defects (eg of character)

Defects turning up in trousers

Limitations of concise US poet, it's said

Shortcut

Showmanship

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

Shrewdness

SHREWISH ill-tempered

Shrillness

Sickliness

Sideslip

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.""

Sillimanite

Silverpoint

Simoniacal

A herb no longer tended? That's foolish

Type of interest objected to, being foolish

Simpleness

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.