12-Letter Words Starting with S

Boy is loco and I go off, which assumes adaptive behaviour

Sociologese

""Of or pertaining to sociology, or social science.""

Sociologist

Sociometry

Sockdolager

Sockdologer

Soddenness

Softheaded

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.

Soldiership

Solemnify

Solemnness

Earnest request

Solicitous

SOLIDARIST

Solidarity

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

SOLILOQUISE

Soliloquise

Soliloquist

SOLILOQUIZE To utter a soliloquy; to talk to one's self.

SOLILOQUIZE To utter a soliloquy; to talk to one's self.

Does a stage routine.

Isolation (of a hermit?)

Solmization

SOLUBILISE

Solubility

SOLUBILIZE

Somatology

Somatomedin

""The outer, or parietal, one of the two lamell\'91 into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the body and the amnion are developed. See Splanchopleure. Splanchopleure.""

""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

Flipped

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

An experienced and knowledgeable person

Who's disported at posh cities (wordplay)

Worldly-wise type making epic that is so disorganised

Causing sleep; somniferous; soporific.

Sordidness

SOULLESS without a soul

Soundproof

Kent is in this part of UK

In the bottom right corner of the country

""SOUTHEASTER A storm, strong wind, or gale coming from the southeast.""

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

""SOUTHWESTER A storm, gale, or strong wind from the southwest.""

SPACIOUS ample in extent

Spanakopita

Spanokopita

Spasmolytic

Spatterdock

Audio equipment - keep on phrase (anagram)

Park sheep ruined linked to single communications facility

SPECIATION

Speciosity

""SPECIOUS plausible, but inaccurate""

Of or pertaining to a spectator.

Spectrogram

An apparatus for photographing or mapping a spectrum.

Apparatus measuring wavelengths

Scientific instrument

Instrument for measuring refractive indices

The measurement of light's properties

Scientific device for splitting light

Optical instrument.

Instrument for observing light of different wavelengths

The use of the spectroscope; investigations made with the spectroscope.

Speculation

Speedboat

Vehicle-velocity indicators

Often-ignored dash displays

Indicators of velocity

Speleology

Potholer - I'll goose-step (anagram)

Footballer in alone, meaning he plumbs the depths

Pigs let loose (anagram) - one who studies caves

Pl. spermagonia also spermogonia (-n - ) A cup-shaped cavity or receptacle in which the spermatia of certain lichens and fungi are produced.

Same as Spermoblast. Spermoblast.

SPERMATOZOA

""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 .""

""The male germ cell in animals and plants, the essential element in fertilization; a microscopic animalculelike particle, usually provided with one or more cilia by which it is capable of active motion. In animals, the familiar type is that of a small, more or less ovoid head, with a delicate threadlike cilium, or tail. Called also spermatozo\'94n. In plants the more usual term is antherozoid. spermatozo\'94n. In plants the more usual term is antherozoid.""

""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 .""

Spermophile

Spheroidal

Spherometer

Spheroplast

Sphingosine

""An instrument which, when applied over an artery, indicates graphically the movements or character of the pulse. See Sphygmogram. Sphygmogram.""

Spiculation

Being single could make person do this

Spirochaete

Spirometry

Splashboard

Pl. splenomegalies Enlargement of the spleen.

A spokesman or a spokeswoman. See Usage Note at man .

Bicycle mechanic (wordplay)

Front wheelwright (wordplay)

One speaking for others

Sponginess

Sponsorship

Spookiness

In a sporadic manner.

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}

Schenkel, for one

Masters consultant, say

One who knows the score

Newspaper man.

Specialist reporter

One of those in the media talking about the club - the one reporting the fights

Sporulation

SPOTLESS {clean=adj}

Spotlight

Spottiness

Gymnast's platforms

Springhouse

SPURIOUS not genuine

Stadtholder

Travelling drama teachers (wordplay)

Carriers of strongboxes

Transport for drama teachers

Stagflation

New Labour's vampire hunters (wordplay)

Interested parties assume hospital mends girdles

Stallholder

Pl. stapedectomies Surgical removal of the stapes.

Starboard

Stationery

They make pancakes (wordplay)

Vehicles used for compacting roads

Restore small model vehicles

Steamroll

Steatopygia

Having fat buttocks.

Steatorrhea

United group

"United" group

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

Herbert's post about marital relations

Stereograph

The art of delineating the forms of solid bodies on a plane; a branch of solid geometry which shows the construction of all solids which are regularly defined.

One of a set of isomers whose molecules have the same atoms bonded to each other but differ in the way these atoms are arranged in space.

Stereology

Combining separate sources of sound

(Of sound) multi-channel

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

Plural or third person singular

""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.""

3-D picture devices.

They provide outstanding images

Giving the impression of depth

Describing a three-dimensional effect.

""A method in neurosurgery and neurological research for locating points within the brain using an external, three-dimensional frame of reference usually based on the Cartesian coordinate system.""

Stereotyper

Stereotypy

""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.""

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

A tennis tutor (anagram) - sneezing

Sternutator

Stertorous

Stethoscope

""STETHOSCOPE An instrument used in auscultation for examining the organs of the chest, as the heart and lungs, by conveying to the ear of the examiner the sounds produced in the thorax.""

Drama ()

Drama ()

""A sterol, C 29 H 48 O, obtained from soybeans or Calabar beans.""

Stilbestrol

Stimulation

Stipulation

The breeding and raising of livestock.

City traders

Revised cost to king's agents. those dealing in securities

Standard royalty brother divides, managing shares, say

Barns and corrals (wordplay)

Annual meeting attendees

Merchandise owners on top of warehouses

Stockiness

Stockinette

Stockjobber

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

Stockkeeper

Stocktaking

Stodginess

Tolerate some pain (wordplay)

Reasons for sick days

Results of overeating

Plural or third person singular

Stomatitis

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

Stockholders in the warehouse business (wordplay)

Storminess

Storyboard

A pack of liars, rumour has it, working on 1 down

Lying much indulged in by Sheherazade

Narrating tales

Relation finds right time to be stuck in traffic

Upset due to threats, but resolute

Courageous, resolute

Courageous

Hulk Hogan's choker (wordplay)

Force that menaces freedom.

Complete power over a situation

Pl. stratocumuli (-l ) A low-lying cloud formation occurring in extensive horizontal layers with rounded summits.

Layer of high air around the earth

Ozone layer's locale*

An atmospheric layer

Strawflower

Pathogenic bacteria

Bacteria that can cause scarlet fever, pneumonia etc.

Any of several hemolysins derived from some strains of streptococci.

""Pl. streptomyces Any of various actinomycetes of the genus Streptomyces, including several strains that produce antibiotics.""

New "wonder drug" from fungi

One of the "wonder" drugs.

The act of stridulating.