12-Letter Words Starting with S

""Resembling sugar, as in taste, appearance, consistency, or composition; as, saccharoidal limestone.as, saccharoidal limestone.""

Sacculation

In a sacerdotal manner.

Profaning holy things

Sinful, naughty girls use 'Ciao'

Profane

Saddlecloth

Sea action in which Garibaldi and son may be involved

Sailboating

Salesperson

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

Salinometer

Sallowness

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any solanaceous plant of the Chilean genus Salpiglossis, some species of which are cultivated for their bright funnel-shaped flowers [New Latin, from Greek salpinx trumpet + glōssa tongue]""

Saltimbocca

Salubrious

""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.""

Salutatory

""Bringing health; healthy; salutary; beneficial; as, salutiferous air. as, salutiferous air.""

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

Army officer, like 10's major

Sanctimony

SANCTION to authorize

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

Sansculotte

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

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

Feeding on carrion.

Disease and Illness

Formation of numerous sarcomas in various parts of the body.

SARCOPLASM

Sardonical

Sardonicism

I can't get no - (Rolling Stones)

The Stones couldn't get it

Fulfillment ... and #2 on the list

End of the week: is plant OK (wordplay)

Stray cat? If so, stray's OK!

Good or bad, sits a plant

Savoriness

Blowhards (wordplay)

Musicians

The quality of being scabrous.

Scaffolding

In a manner to give offense; shamefully.

Scapegoat

""SCAPEGOAT A goat upon whose head were symbolically placed the sins of the people, after which he was suffered to escape into the wilderness.""

Scaramouche

People who cause fear or fright

Alarmists seeing Germans score in a frenzy

Preoccupied with excrement

Noun (-tion)

Scattergood

""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).""

SCHISTOSOME

Schistosome

Schizogony

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

English word

Schnorkel

Student awards

""SCHOOLBOY A boy belonging to, or attending, a school.""

Comrade in the class struggle (wordplay)

Classmate that's in the same swimming group

They facilitate learning

The classroom (anagram)

Teacher of fish (wordplay)

Instructor at Eton, say

Schottische

Comparative adjective or agent noun

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

Central American flycatchers

Scleroderma

Sclerometer

Scolopendra

Scopolamine

Those holding grudges against others in the game involved with The Count

Gamey officials produce point from The Guardian at school

Contemptuous quality

Men in charge of troops

Men in charge of troops

A drawing board coated with white clay and a surface layer of black ink that is scratched or scraped away to produce an effect similar to engraving. Also called scraperboard .

The quality or state of being scruppulous; doubt; doubtfulness respecting decision or action; caution or tenderness from the far of doing wrong or ofending; nice regard to exactness and propierty; precision.

Scrupulous

Scuppernong

Scurrilous

""Pl. scyphistomae (-m ) or scyphistomas A larva of a scyphozoan, consisting of an elongated and deeply constricted polyp that successively splits off minute, free-swimming medusas.""

Scyphistoma

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

One breaking away from a federation

""A white odorless barbiturate, C 12 H 18 N 2 O 3 , used in the form of its sodium salt as a sedative and hypnotic.""

A hormone or another agent that causes or stimulates secretion.

""SECRETION The act of secreting or concealing; as, the secretion of dutiable goods. as, the secretion of dutiable goods.""

""A disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a section of the country; local patriotism, as distinguished from national.""

SEDULOUS {diligent=adj}

Division into parts

Segregation

Seigniorage

They record earth-shaking events

""A writing about, or a description of, earthquakes.""

Seismology

An expert at assessing faults (wordplay)

One who studies earthquakes

Earthquake scientist

Seismometer

""Of or pertaining to seismometry, or seismometer; as, seismometric instruments; seismometric measurements. as, seismometric instruments; seismometric measurements.""

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

""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 ,""

Semeiology

ARBOREAL tree-dwelling

COLONIAL a citizen of a colony

Semicolony

DOMINANT a controlling genetic character

LUSTROUS reflecting light evenly and efficiently

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.""

""Half official; having some official authority or importance; as, a semiofficial statement. as, a semiofficial statement.""

""Same as Semeiography, Semeiology, Semeiological.Semeiography, Semeiology, Semeiological.""

Semiologist

Semiotician

Semioticist

Of value but less than a gemstone

Like some gems

Not like a girl's best friend

Warm, as a climate

Senatorship

""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

Sensuosity

SENSUOUS derived from the senses

Septentrion

Sequacious

(In blood test) showing no virus present

Showing a positive reaction to a test on blood serum for a disease; exhibiting seroconversion.

Consisting of serum and pus.

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

Servanthood

Female minister? She's a fighter

Female in the forces

Wasp

A man who is a member of the armed forces.

The cardinal number equal to 10 51 .

Sextodecimo

Shacklebone

How Hank Marvin etc warmed up (wordplay)

Sparring with oneself (wordplay)

Sparring with an imaginary opponent

Shadowgraph

SHADOWGRAPH

SHARECROP

Small-time farmer (2 words)

Type of tenant farmer in the USA

Landworker's allotment failure

Old ploughmen as investors in company (wordplay)

Marksman pointed gun (wordplay)

Annie Oakley, for one

Sniper, e.g

Adjective for auto safety glass (7,5)

Designed not to break into pieces

Like some safety glass

Shergottite

Shittimwood

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

Heedless of the future.

Like the grasshopper of fable

Limited in one's outlook

Showmanship

Puts hats on display (wordplay)

Display with seals clapping should follow these

Rain and snow all summer at Lords? With such like, one couldn't go on!

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

How to get broad (wordplay)

Prepare to deal and get on with the game

Cruise-ship pastime

Shuttlecock

""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.""

""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.""

Silverpoint

Simoniacal

Happening at the same time

Done at the same time

Occurring at same time

Sinfonietta

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.""

A berserk toad (anagram)

Someone on a short plank with wheels

Ray the lodger's a sportsman

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

Shooting up, in a way

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

In a defamatory way

Destructive; murderous.

Slaveholder

Holding persons in slavery.

Slavocracy

English dogs with a keen sense of smell

Sloganeer

Sloppiness

Inactivity

Condition of tramp steamer carrying very much like new product ranges

Stews: Slang.

Stews Slang.

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

A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches. Breeches.

Landowners in arrangement to sell lord hams

Mini-farm, perhaps

Modest farming concern

Agricultural area, but less than a farm

Smithsonite

Smoothness

Bork bork borks, to the Swedish Chef

Scandinavian buffets

Broken or projecting gnasher

Snapshooter

Snapshot

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

The quality of being sociable.