12-Letter Words Starting with S

Baseball E-stats study

""-fies , -fying , -fied (Chemistry) (tr) to convert (starch) into sugar saccharification  , saccharization , saccharisation n""

Saccharify

""SACCHARINE Of or pertaining to sugar; having the qualities of sugar; producing sugar; sweet; as, a saccharine taste; saccharine matter. as, a saccharine taste; saccharine matter.""

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

In a sacerdotal manner.

Sacramental

Sacredness

Profaning holy things

Sinful, naughty girls use 'Ciao'

Profane

Harmless snack for burglars (wordplay)

Harmless snack for burglars?

Withdrawal specialists (wordplay)

Succumbing to pressure after secure, criminal occupation

Protecting

Sea action in which Garibaldi and son may be involved

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a salamander; enduring fire.""

Salesperson

Salinometer

Salubrious

Effecting or designed to effect an improvement; remedial: salutary advice.

""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.""

Graffiti removers

Making smooth

Sanguinaria

""A tube of vitrified sand, produced by a stroke of lightning; a fulgurite""

Sansevieria

Feeding on carrion.

Disease and Illness

Formation of numerous sarcomas in various parts of the body.

SARCOPLASM

Sardonical

Sardonicism

Non-alcoholic drink

Drink prepared from roots

Nonalcoholic root drink

End of the week: is plant OK (wordplay)

Stray cat? If so, stray's OK!

Good or bad, sits a plant

Sauerbraten

Saurischian

Savoriness

The quality of being scabrous.

Scarabaeus

Scaramouche

Scarceness

People who cause fear or fright

Alarmists seeing Germans score in a frenzy

Scarifying

Noun (-tion)

Person incapable of concentration

Person unable to think clearly

One who cannot concentrate

Scattergood

Scattergram

In a scattering manner; dispersedly.

Theatre stage worker

Stage worker

Theatre worker

""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

Schnorkel

Student awards

The classroom (anagram)

Teacher of fish (wordplay)

Instructor at Eton, say

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Schwarmerei

A device for producing a scintigram; a scintiscanner.

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

Central American flycatchers

""Vegetable tissue composed of short cells with thickened or hardened walls, as in nutshells and the gritty parts of a pear. See Sclerotic. Sclerotic.""

Scleroderma

Sclerometer

Scolopendra

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 .

Quality like that of a worn gramophone record

Film script author

One creating film script

Monitor hack who produced The Script (wordplay)

Drinks for assembly workers (wordplay)

Vodka drinks

Sounds like Philip's orange juice and vodka drinks

Screwiness

One who carves scrimshaw.

Scrimshaw

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

SCRUTINISE

Scrutinizer

""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.""

Sculptress

Sculptural

Scuppernong

Scurrility

Scurrilous

Scurviness

Seamstress

Sweeping beams

The rich glass contrived for high-powered lamps

""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.

Secretariat

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

Adherence to religious groupings

To imbue with sectarian feelings; to subject to the control of a sect.

SECULARISE

""SECULARIST One who theoretically rejects every form of religious faith, and every kind of religious worship, and accepts only the facts and influences which are derived from the present life; also, one who believes that education and other matters of civil policy should be managed without the introduction of a religious element.""

Secularity

Secularizer

""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.""

Secureness

SECURITIZE

Femmes fatales

Segregation

Seigniorage

They record earth-shaking events

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

Seismometer

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

""Containing, or impregnated with, selenium; as, seleniferous pyrites. as, seleniferous pyrites.""

ABSTRACT to draw away

ARBOREAL tree-dwelling

Junk mail a trucker might get (wordplay)

Form of estate agent's brochure (wordplay)

Advertising flier at a truck stop (wordplay)

Dusky state

""Half of a diameter; a right line, or the length of a right line, drawn from the center of a circle, a sphere, or other curved figure, to its circumference or periphery; a radius.""

Fruits (spelled backward) + Repeat = (wordplay)

Elite stream inappropriate - one is coming in barely able to read and write

LUSTROUS reflecting light evenly and efficiently

""Seedbearing; producing seed; pertaining to, or connected with, the formation of semen; as, seminiferous cells or vesicles. as, seminiferous cells or vesicles.""

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

Items attached to highway tractors

Warm, as a climate

Sempervivum

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

Sempstress

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

Quality of being separable or divisible; divisibility; separableness.

SEPARATE to keep apart

Of or pertaining to separatists; characterizing separatists; schismatical.

Septentrion

Sepulcher

Sepulchral

Confiscating band of gold after search in bishop's domain

SEQUESTRATE To sequester.

Sequestrate

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

Sereneness

SERICULTURE The raising of silkworms.

Sericulture

SERIGRAPHER serigraph

Serigraphy

(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.""

In a serpentine manner.

Servanthood

The shadbush or one of its fruit.

Female minister? She's a fighter

Female in the forces

Wasp

A man who is a member of the armed forces.

""Capable of being severed or separated; separable into legally distinct rights or obligations, as a contract.""

Severeness

Person in seventh decade

Person in their sixties

Arrived between 1943-1952 for one from the sixties

Shadowgraph

SHADOWGRAPH

Abstract noun (-ity)

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

Shattering

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.""

One gathering wool

He cuts inside the fold

Fleece cutter

Comparative adjective or agent noun

""SHELLFISH Any aquatic animal whose external covering consists of a shell, either testaceous, as in oysters, clams, and other mollusks, or crustaceous, as in lobsters and crabs.""

Shelterbelt

Shergottite

Shinplaster

Vital war workers

Despatch something from site to Noah's family

They make models of Jeanie Johnston perhaps for Harland and Wolff

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

Shirtdress

SHIRTSLEEVE

(In) jacketless state

Symbol of informality.

Being in these one has no jacket on

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

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!

Shrewdness

SHREWISH ill-tempered

Shrievalty

Shrillness

How to get broad (wordplay)

Prepare to deal and get on with the game

Cruise-ship pastime

Sidestepper

Creating distraction, wrongly directs a monarch

Silverfish

Silverpoint

Some metalworkers

See Sylviculture. Sylviculture.

Parallels with IRA missile, it is broadcast

Resemblances is up to militaries on manoeuvres

It's much the same for one getting draws from matches

SINGULARIZE To make singular or single; to distinguish.

Singularize