12-Letter Words Starting with S

Stickiness

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

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

Sharon's tools (wordplay)

Hewing or dressing stone.

Rough notes on army's type of manual labour

STONEWALLER stonewall

Delaying tactics? Nothing new in that!

Consistently blocking deliveries

Nothing new in holding things up or being obstructive

Unfeeling - like Olive (wordplay)

Devoid of feeling for others

Feeling callous? Then destroy a settlement

Storminess

Lying much indulged in by Sheherazade

Narrating tales

Relation finds right time to be stuck in traffic

Put in order

Way of presenting gender that is not kinky

Hair care item

Honesty is his strangest failing

Straitness

STRANDED strand

Hulk Hogan's choker (wordplay)

Force that menaces freedom.

Complete power over a situation

""Having the circulation stopped by compression; attended with arrest or obstruction of circulation, caused by constriction or compression; as, a strangulated hernia. as, a strangulated hernia.""

Strangulate

Certain commuters.

Travellers with a long-standing grievance

Subwayites.

Using train when no seats available (wordplay)

STRATEGIZE

Vehicles seen at Bonneville Salt Flats (pl.)

STREAMLINE

Made more robust

Reinforced

Something making less weak

Power changed Rene into a strong supporter

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.

""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

""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.""

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.""

STUBBORN to be unyielding

Studentship

STUDIOUS given to study

Stuffiness

Total astonishment and shock

Shocked astonishment

Extreme astonishment

Stupefying

In a marvelous way

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

Subbasement

Subcentral

Hyman Rickover's alma mater (wordplay)

""COMPONENT Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent.""

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

Public transportation is overturned, gets smaller and delegates work

CULTURING culture

Under the skin

Just under the skin

Terribly cute, on a bus, American gets under skin

DEBUTANTE

Subdecision

Land parcels.

Subdominant

Subeconomy

""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.""

SUBINFEUD

Subinterval

Subjacency

Subjugation

Subjunction

In a manner of speaking, moods imagined or wished

Sublanguage

An under or assistant librarian.

LICENSING license

Sublimation

Subliminal

Subluxation

Submergence

Of greatly reduced size

Subminister

Submunition

NORMALITY Conformity with the norm; the state of being normal; the normal condition.

ORDINATED ordinate

They could be under boss at head of institution

""SUBORDINATE Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position.""

Subornation

Subpotency

""PRINCIPAL Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree; most considerable or important; chief; main; as, the principal officers of a Government; the principal men of a state; the principal productions of a country; the principal arguments in a case. as, the principal officers of a Government; the principal men of a state; the principal productions of a country; the principal arguments in a case.""

Subrogation

Regular payment

Membership fee

Copy-editor number one upset by writing fee

Subsentence

Subsequence

Later on

Afterwards

Consequently, transport returned in an orderly fashion

Subordinate in capacity or function.

""The quality or state of being subservient; instrumental fitness or use; hence, willingness to serve another's purposes; in a derogatory sense, servility.""

Subsistence

Inflected form of SONICALLY Inflected form of SONIC pertaining to sound

Essential parts.

Prove truth of (charge)

Prove to be true

Prove the truth of

Of or pertaining to a substantive; of the nature of substantive.

Substantive

Substituent

""SUBSTITUTE One who, or that which, is substituted or put in the place of another; one who acts for another; that which stands in lieu of something else""

Replacement of one thing by another

Replacement

Subsumption

Subtenancy

Of the nether world.

Train near Eastburn for The Underground

Underground; secret

Subtleness

Subtotal

Deductions for bus con artist crashed

URBANISED urbanise

Suburbanise

Suburbanite

URBANIZED urbanize

Suburbanize

""Pertaining to, or acting as, a succedaneum; supplying the place of something else; being, or employed as, a substitute for another.""

Succedaneum

Of or pertaining to a succession; existing in a regular order; consecutive.

SUCCINCT clearly expressed in a few words

Suddenness

Enough clues in fifty puzzles (wordplay)

Tiny scuffle involved restraining one adequately

Adequately

Suffixation

Suffocation

Making sweet love in windy act, ruing gas

Sue's sin misconstrued around table - how fitting is that (wordplay)

""A sulfa drug, C 10 H 10 N 4 O 2 S, used in the treatment of toxoplasmosis and other infections.""

Sulfonamide

Sulfonation

""Any of a group of hypoglycemic drugs, such as tolbutamide, that act on the beta cells of the pancreas to increase the secretion of insulin.""

Sulfuret

Sullenness

SULPHURISE

Sultriness

Sunscreen

Superabound

Superaltern

Pension off

Superbness

English word

Supercenter

Supercoil

To offer no resistance is good behaviour

Demonstrate zero electrical resistance

Supercool

An electrical current flowing through a superconductor.

""Eminent in a superior degree; surpassing others in excellence; as, a supereminent divine; the supereminent glory of Christ. as, a supereminent divine; the supereminent glory of Christ.""

Superharden

Superheat

English word

Superhuman

""SUPERINDUCE To bring in, or upon, as an addition to something.""

Superinduce

Superinfect

Has charge of.

Bosses supply new purse and means

Supernatant

Supernation

Changing usual partner is weird

Turns up a real oddity - it's uncanny

Psychic upset usual partner

Supernature

(Sociology) Sociol (no longer widely used) relating to those aspects of a culture that are conceived as being superior to the individual members of the society superorganicism   n

Superperson

English word

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

Supersinger

SUPERSTATE SUPERS super

See blurb (nonverbal)

Stevie Wonder hit

Bad-luck bringer, e.g

Superstring

English word

Supertanker

Coming as something additional or extraneous; coming afterwards.

A following on in addition

Supervision

Superweapon

Supineness

Spare plastic potty

Additional to what is required

Flexible in the mind, providing what's missing

Supplement

Supplement

Suppleness

Supplicat

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

Supposition

Suppressant

Suppression

Suppuration

Being above the threshold of consciousness or of sensation. Used of stimuli.

Surfboard

Beat first victim? Heard it can be done!

Burn-out male's battling can be overcome

Like something that may be overcome

Surpassing

Remarkably gruff about pressure mounting

Unexpectedly grumpy about prying

Grisly pun Sir Dicky makes in a funny way

The answer of a plaintiff to a defendant's rejoinder.

. . . on a battlefield

Climbing down to give up gin cocktail

... on a battlefield

High on drugs, ruins the environment

Badly ruins ground on small habitat

Environment