12-Letter Words Starting with S

Spottiness

English word

Make the beds (wordplay)

Sprightful

""Sprightlier , sprightliest Full of spirit and vitality; lively; brisk.""

Gymnast's platforms

Springhouse

Springwater

Spruceness

Spunkiness

SPURIOUS not genuine

Persons opposed to change

STANDPAT resisting or opposing change

Pl. stapedectomies Surgical removal of the stapes.

Staphylinid

Steatopygia

Having fat buttocks.

Competition for pastors (wordplay)

High Church breaking contract for event

Race with jumps

Workers in high places.

High climbers.

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

Stenotypist

Herbert's post about marital relations

Issue to be brought up on remarriage

Former union issue - awful pest, the guard found

Stepfamily

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.

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.

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.""

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.""

Stewardship

Stipulation

Stockkeeper

Stockholders in the warehouse business (wordplay)

Certain commuters.

Travellers with a long-standing grievance

Subwayites.

Using train when no seats available (wordplay)

That branch of geology which treats of the arrangement and succession of strata.

Layer of high air around the earth

Ozone layer's locale*

An atmospheric layer

Streetscape

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.

Stringpiece

Stripteaser

Stroboscope

STROBOSCOPE An instrument for studying or observing the successive phases of a periodic or varying motion by means of light which is periodically interrupted.

""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.""

Studentship

Total astonishment and shock

Shocked astonishment

Extreme astonishment

Stupefying

In a marvelous way

Stupidness

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

Situated immediately below the epidermis.

Submultiple

OPTIMIZED optimize

Suboptimize

""PARAGRAPH Originally, a marginal mark or note, set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, e. g., a change of subject; now, the character g., a change of subject; now, the character <?/, commonly used in the text as a reference mark to a footnote, or to indicate the place of a division into sections.""

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.""

Subprocess

Regular payment

Membership fee

Copy-editor number one upset by writing fee

SPECIALTY Particularity.

Subsumption

""TEMPERATE Moderate; not excessive; as, temperate heat; a temperate climate. as, temperate heat; a temperate climate.""

SULPHURISE

Superabound

Superaltern

Pension off

English word

Superbitch

Superbness

SUPERBOMBER superbomb

English word

Do they look after Masefield's work (wordplay)

Officers afloat, overseeing result of Ferrari's fix (wordplay)

SUPERCAR a superior car

Supercenter

Very quick, huge car sped round corner, finally

Feature of many a dragster (NFL)

Power booster on '98 Buick Regal 3.8 V6

Mall goer, to the extreme

Supercharge

Of or pertaining to the eyebrows; supraorbital.

Contemptuously superior

101 left in outstanding debts, being arrogant

Condescending

Superclass

A group of neighboring clusters of galaxies.

Supercoil

To offer no resistance is good behaviour

Demonstrate zero electrical resistance

Supercool

An electrical current flowing through a superconductor.

Superegoist

SUPERELEVATE

""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.""

English word

""The part of supersymmetry theory that attempts to merge the theory of gravity with the other fundamental forces by postulating the graviton's supersymmetric partner, the gravitino.""

Supergrowth

Superharden

SUPERHEATER An apparatus for superheating steam.

Superheat

Superheavy

""Pl. superhelixes or superhelices (h l -s z , h l -) A molecular structure in which a helix is itself coiled into a helix, as of overwound circular DNA.""

""Pl. superhelixes or superhelices (h l -s z , h l -) A molecular structure in which a helix is itself coiled into a helix, as of overwound circular DNA.""

Superhelix

English word

Major road (US)

Modern means of travel.

Superhuman

Placed on top

Set over? Fantastic, I'm ready for my close-up!

Superimpose

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

Superinduce

Superinfect

Has charge of.

Bosses supply new purse and means

Superlative

Superlawyer

Shops' excellent brand set to be changed

Places for groceries

Food stores

Adjective (-ive)

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 &nbsp; n

Superorgasm

SUPEROVULATE

English word

Superperson

""(Engineering / General Engineering) such a metal, alloy, etc. superplasticity &nbsp;""

Superplayer

""Capable of being superposed, as one figure upon another.""

Superpower

Fabulous insurance payment (wordplay)

Superprofit

Abstract noun (-ity)

SUPERREAL

Superschool

""SUPERSCRIBE To write or engrave (a name, address, inscription, or the like) on the top or surface; to write a name, address, or the like, on the outside or cover of (anything); as, to superscribe a letter. as, to superscribe a letter.""

Superscribe

Marvellous things to read from elevated characters

English word

Plural noun or verb form

Supersedure

SUPERSELLER supersell

English word

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

Supersinger

Supersleuth

Adjective (-al)

Realm of A-list celebrity (wordplay)

Very great fame

Position of great fame

SUPERSTATE SUPERS super

See blurb (nonverbal)

Stevie Wonder hit

Bad-luck bringer, e.g

""A stratum, or layer, above another.""

Superstrike

Superstring

English word

Supersystem

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.""

Containing supplication; humble; earnest.

Supposition

Supposititious. See Synonyms at supposed .

Suppressant

That may be suppressed.

Suppression

Suppuration

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

Located above the orbit of the eye: the supraorbital ridge.

Supravital

Supremacist

Suprematism

Suprematist

Surpassing

Remarkably gruff about pressure mounting

Unexpectedly grumpy about prying

Grisly pun Sir Dicky makes in a funny way

The state of being a survivor.

Capacity for receiving; susceptibility.

SUSPENSE a state of mental uncertainty or excitement

Suspensive

Suspensory

Suspicion

Suspicious

Suspiration

Swampiness

SWEEPING the act of one that {sweeps=v}

SWORDPLAYER A fencer; a gladiator; one who exhibits his skill in the use of the sword.

Sycophancy