12-Letter Words Starting with S

Safekeeping

Spanish males engaged in art of commerce

Selling sand to Arabs for brewer perhaps in foreign police force is all the rage

The trick to selling small drinks to Joe from dispatch

Salesperson

""(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]""

Pueblo Indian art

Native American art

Making smooth

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

Feeding on carrion.

SARCOPLASM

Non-alcoholic drink

Drink prepared from roots

Nonalcoholic root drink

Blowhards (wordplay)

Musicians

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.""

""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).""

English word

Student awards

A device for producing a scintigram; a scintiscanner.

Scolopendra

Scopolamine

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

Gamey officials produce point from The Guardian at school

In a scriptural manner.

Wordsmith in cursive (nonverbal)

Ms may be my baby!

Wordsmith in cursive (nonverbal)

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

Sculptress

Sculptural

Scuppernong

""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

They record earth-shaking events

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

""Having the anterior toes joined only part way down with a web; half-webbed; as, a semipalmate bird or foot. See Illust. k under Aves.as, a semipalmate bird or foot. See Illust. k under Aves.""

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

Of value but less than a gemstone

Like some gems

Not like a girl's best friend

Warm, as a climate

Sempervivum

Future duration without end; the relation or state of being sempiternal.

Sempstress

Senatorship

Quality of being separable or divisible; divisibility; separableness.

SEPARATE to keep apart

Of or pertaining to separatists; characterizing separatists; schismatical.

Once in seven years.

Septentrion

Sepulcher

Sepulchral

Real, physical? Different, in the style of an angel

SERIGRAPHER serigraph

Serigraphy

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

Consisting of serum and pus.

In a serpentine manner.

SEXTUPLE to make six times as great

Shadowgraph

SHADOWGRAPH

SHARECROP

Small-time farmer (2 words)

Type of tenant farmer in the USA

Landworker's allotment failure

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

Sheepberry

Cattlemen's adversaries.

Workers in Ireland's pastures

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

Shy embarrassment

Embarrassment

A woolly state ... or an embarrassed one (wordplay)

One gathering wool

He cuts inside the fold

Fleece cutter

Shinplaster

Vital war workers

Despatch something from site to Noah's family

They make models of Jeanie Johnston perhaps for Harland and Wolff

Type of construction at, eg, Govan, Barrow

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

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.

Sideslip

Sidestepper

Evading, in a way

Desist moving forest as evasive action

Avoidance behaviour that is seen in South Essex town

Silverpoint

A herb no longer tended? That's foolish

Type of interest objected to, being foolish

Simpleness

Simplicial

Simplicity

One of the Siphonophora.

""Botany A type of stele in which the vascular cylinder surrounds a pith, as in the stem of the sunflower.""

Skimpiness

""Slaphappier , slaphappiest Slang Dazed, silly, or incoherent from or as if from blows to the head; punch-drunk.""

Sleepiness

Noctambulous types

They go out for a stroll at night with dozy types just out of bed

Somnambulance

Somnambulation.

Somnambulism

The quality of being slippery.

Slipstream

Sloppiness

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

Snappiness

SNAPPISH tending to behave in an impatient or irritable manner

Snapshooter

Snapshot

Sniperscope

Soldiership

""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.""

See growth hormone .

Sonography

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.

Soundproof

Spaceflight

SPACEWALKER spacewalk

Going outside an orbiting craft

SPACIOUS ample in extent

Spaghettini

Spanakopita

Spanokopita

SPARKPLUG

Sparseness

Spasmolytic

Spasticity

Spatiality

Spatterdock

Audio equipment - keep on phrase (anagram)

Park sheep ruined linked to single communications facility

Speakership

Spearfish

Leading (attack)

Taking the lead

Praised Hagen extravagantly for leading attack

SPECIALISE

""SPECIALIST One who devotes himself to some specialty; as, a medical specialist, one who devotes himself to diseases of particular parts of the body, as the eye, the ear, the nerves, etc. as, a medical specialist, one who devotes himself to diseases of particular parts of the body, as the eye, the ear, the nerves, etc.""

Speciality

SPECIALIZE To mention specialy; to particularize.

SPECIATION

Precisely, clearly

Distinctly

Precisely

Speciosity

""SPECIOUS plausible, but inaccurate""

Types of shows.

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

The act of making a speech or speeches.

Speechless

Politician's alter ego (wordplay)

William Safire, once

Speedball

Speedboat

Speediness

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

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. -cae (-s ) A receptacle in the reproductive tracts of certain female invertebrates, especially insects, in which spermatozoa are received and stored until needed to fertilize the ova.""

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

Spessartine

Spessartite

Sphericity

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

""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

Spiritless

Brings The Dead to life for the latecomers who have something to say (wordplay)

Brings The Dead to life for the latecomers who have something to say

Hint to the Mystery Guest's identity

Medium habit is coming in double

Seance holder.

Religious sense

""To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize soul. as, to spiritualize soul.""

Spirochaete

Spirometry

Spiteful

Petty ill will

Splashboard

The quality of being splendid.

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