12-Letter Words Starting with S

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

In a defamatory way

Slanginess

Slaughter

Holding persons in slavery.

Sleaziness

Sleepiness

Somnambulance

Somnambulation.

Somnambulism

Dieter's aim.

English dogs with a keen sense of smell

""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.

Sloganeer

Sloppiness

Inactivity

Condition of tramp steamer carrying very much like new product ranges

SLUGGARD a habitually lazy person

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

Smoothness

Smudginess

Smuttiness

English word

Broken or projecting gnasher

Snappiness

SNAPPISH tending to behave in an impatient or irritable manner

Snapshooter

Snapshot

Sneakiness

Snickersnee

Sniffiness

SNIFFISH {haughty=adj}

Sniperscope

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

""Slang One, especially a politician, who is guided by personal advantage rather than by consistent, respectable principles.""

Snootiness

Snottiness

Sportsmen currently accommodated between son and lodgers

Popular form of controlled sliding

Olympic event

Son currently joining coach, say, for winter sport

Snowmobiler

SNOWMOBILE

SNOWMOBILE

Snubbiness

The quality of being sociable.

Soddenness

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.

Solemnify

Solemnness

Earnest request

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

Isolation (of a hermit?)

Solmization

SOLUBILISE

SOLUBILIZE

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 .

Somberness

Somerset

Sleep

To walk when <?/sleep.

Sleepwalking

Not a consciously progressive type

One who is out and about

Peripatetic sleeper

Tending to produce sleep; hypnotic.

Prima donnas perhaps from Grammar School restrained by child locks

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

SONOROUS characterized by a full and loud sound

SOOTHING the act of soothing

Soothsaying

Sordidness

SOULLESS without a soul

Soundproof

Kent is in this part of UK

In the bottom right corner of the country

Farthest south.

SOUTHERN a person living in the south

A shrub for the huntress

Call for silence around exit to cowboy film set in Kerry direction

Going outside an orbiting craft

SPACIOUS ample in extent

Spaghettini

Spanakopita

Spanokopita

Sparseness

Audio equipment - keep on phrase (anagram)

Park sheep ruined linked to single communications facility

Spearfish

Leading (attack)

Taking the lead

Praised Hagen extravagantly for leading attack

SPECIALISE

SPECIALIZE To mention specialy; to particularize.

SPECIATION

""SPECIOUS plausible, but inaccurate""

Speculation

The act of making a speech or speeches.

Speedball

Speedboat

Speediness

Powerful speakers

Sure to fascinate

Fascinating session covering books

Holding one's interest

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.

""Pl. spermatozoa (-z ) The mature fertilizing gamete of a male organism, usually consisting of a round or cylindrical nucleated cell, a short neck, and a thin motile tail. Also called sperm cell , zoosperm .""

""Pl. spermatozoa (-z ) The mature fertilizing gamete of a male organism, usually consisting of a round or cylindrical nucleated cell, a short neck, and a thin motile tail. Also called sperm cell , zoosperm .""

Spessartine

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

Petty ill will

The quality of being splendid.

Pl. splenomegalies Enlargement of the spleen.

Bicycle mechanic (wordplay)

Front wheelwright (wordplay)

One speaking for others

Sponginess

Sponsorship

Spookiness

Plural or third person singular

Reproduction by spores.

The sport of catching fish using a rod and reel.

SPORTFUL {playful=adj}

Sportiness

SPORTIVE {playful=adj}

Sporulation

SPOTLESS {clean=adj}

Spotlight

Spottiness

Gymnast's platforms

Springhouse

Springwater

Spruceness

Spunkiness

SPURIOUS not genuine

Squareness

SQUARISH somewhat square

Squirrel

Stableness

Establishment.

Stagflation

Ryan Giggs let loose in striking fashion

Dog with German entering alone in amazing fashion

Abstract noun (-ity)

Sturdy valiance

""Bred in conformity to a standard. Specif., applied to a registered trotting horse which comes up to the standard adopted by the National Association of Trottinghorse Breeders.""

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

STANDARD an established measure of comparison

Persons opposed to change

STANDPAT resisting or opposing change

Staphylinid

Starboard

Startlement

Stationery

Numerical data analyst

One analysing data

One analysing numerical facts

Steadiness

Ninja's speciality

Furtive behaviour

Steaminess

Steamroll

Steeliness

Steelmaking

Copier of a dictator's words

One versed in shorthand

Court employee

Shorthander's notes unusually explicit

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

STENOTHERM

Stenotypist

Issue to be brought up on remarriage

Combining separate sources of sound

(Of sound) multi-channel

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

""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.""

""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

""Of or pertaining to the sternum and the ribs; as, the sternocostal cartilages. as, the sternocostal cartilages.""

A tennis tutor (anagram) - sneezing

Sternutator

Stickhandle

STICKHANDLE

Stickhandle