12-Letter Words Starting with S

Succumbing to pressure after secure, criminal occupation

Protecting

Sea action in which Garibaldi and son may be involved

Process for cleaning or engraving

Pueblo Indian art

Native American art

Making smooth

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.""

Scapegoat

SCHEMATIZE To form a scheme or schemes.

Schnorkel

Scrimshaw

SCRUTINISE

""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.""

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.""

SECURITIZE

Semideify

""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.""

Sentinel

Sepulcher

Confiscating band of gold after search in bishop's domain

How Hank Marvin etc warmed up (wordplay)

Sparring with oneself (wordplay)

Sparring with an imaginary opponent

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

Type of construction at, eg, Govan, Barrow

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

Shortcut

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

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

""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.""

Simulcast

Shooting up, in a way

Fast-rising TV company playing loud music, and French being gripped

Slaughter

Holding persons in slavery.

Somnambulance

Somnambulation.

Somnambulism

Dieter's aim.

Sloganeer

Mini-farm, perhaps

Modest farming concern

Agricultural area, but less than a farm

Snapshot

Popular form of controlled sliding

Olympic event

Son currently joining coach, say, for winter sport

SNOWMOBILE

Solemnify

SOLUBILISE

SOLUBILIZE

Somerset

Boy to secure sort of genre I recognized as producing short poems

Child to secure sort of genre I recognized as producing short poems

Going outside an orbiting craft

Spearfish

Leading (attack)

Taking the lead

Praised Hagen extravagantly for leading attack

SPECIALISE

SPECIALIZE To mention specialy; to particularize.

The act of making a speech or speeches.

Speedball

Speedboat

Sure to fascinate

Fascinating session covering books

Holding one's interest

The sport of catching fish using a rod and reel.

Spotlight

Squirrel

Starboard

Steamroll

""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.""

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

Standard royalty brother divides, managing shares, say

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

Hewing or dressing stone.

Delaying tactics? Nothing new in that!

Consistently blocking deliveries

Nothing new in holding things up or being obstructive

Lying much indulged in by Sheherazade

Narrating tales

Relation finds right time to be stuck in traffic

Using train when no seats available (wordplay)

STRATEGIZE

STREAMLINE

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

CULTURING culture

LICENSING license

""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""

Subtotal

Making sweet love in windy act, ruing gas

Sulfuret

SULPHURISE

Sunscreen

Supercoil

Supercool

Superheat

Supplicat

Surfboard

. . . on a battlefield

Climbing down to give up gin cocktail

... on a battlefield

Suspicion

Syllabify

SYMMETRIZE To make proportional in its parts; to reduce to symmetry.

SYMPATHISE

""SYMPATHIZE To have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain.""

SYNCRETISE

SYNCRETIZE

SYNONYMIZE To express by a synonym or synonyms; to give the synonym or synonyms corresponding to.

SYNTHESIZE To combine by synthesis; to unite.