12-Letter Words Starting with S

SINISTER portending evil

One of the Siphonophora.

A berserk toad (anagram)

Someone on a short plank with wheels

Ray the lodger's a sportsman

""Any small moth whose larva eats the parenchyma of leaves, leaving the skeleton; as, the appleleaf skeletonizer. as, the appleleaf skeletonizer.""

Underhand behaviour (mainly US)

Underhand trickery

Shooting up, in a way

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

In a defamatory way

SLAUGHTERER One who slaughters.

Slaughter

Destructive; murderous.

Slaveholder

Slavocracy

Unsuitable nutcracker (wordplay)

R&B/rap duo Percy & MC (wordplay)

Big hitter trimmed hedge in prison

Noctambulous types

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

Dieter's aim.

The quality of being slippery.

Slipstream

Sloganeer

SLUGGARD a habitually lazy person

Landowners in arrangement to sell lord hams

Smarminess

Bork bork borks, to the Swedish Chef

Scandinavian buffets

Snapshooter

Snickersnee

Sniperscope

""Slang One, especially a politician, who is guided by personal advantage rather than by consistent, respectable principles.""

Sportsmen currently accommodated between son and lodgers

Popular form of controlled sliding

Olympic event

Son currently joining coach, say, for winter sport

Snowmobiler

Sociometry

Sockdolager

Sockdologer

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

SOLIDARIST

Solidarity

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

Isolation (of a hermit?)

""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 .

Somberness

Flipped

Somerset

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

Causing sleep; somniferous; soporific.

Sordidness

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.""

SPACEWALKER spacewalk

SPARKPLUG

Sparseness

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

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.

Politician's alter ego (wordplay)

William Safire, once

Vehicle-velocity indicators

Often-ignored dash displays

Indicators of velocity

Powerful speakers

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

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

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

Splashboard

Bicycle mechanic (wordplay)

Front wheelwright (wordplay)

One speaking for others

Sponsorship

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

English word

Make the beds (wordplay)

Sprightful

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

Gymnast's platforms

Springhouse

Springwater

Spruceness

SPURIOUS not genuine

Squareness

SQUARISH somewhat square

Squirarchy

Squirrel

Stadtholder

Ryan Giggs let loose in striking fashion

Dog with German entering alone in amazing fashion

New Labour's vampire hunters (wordplay)

Interested parties assume hospital mends girdles

Stallholder

Sturdy valiance

""Bred in conformity to a standard. Specif., applied to a registered trotting horse which comes up to the standard adopted by the National Association of Trottinghorse Breeders.""

STANDARDISE

Standardise

""STANDARDIZE To reduce to a normal standard; to calculate or adjust the strength of, by means of, and for uses in, analysis.""

Standardize

STANDARD an established measure of comparison

Persons opposed to change

Starboard

Startlement

Stationery

Steamfitter

They make pancakes (wordplay)

Vehicles used for compacting roads

Restore small model vehicles

Steamroll

Steatorrhea

United group

"United" group

Steerageway

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

Herbert's post about marital relations

Issue to be brought up on remarriage

Former union issue - awful pest, the guard found

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.""

STERLING British money

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

A tennis tutor (anagram) - sneezing

Sternutator

Stertorous

Virgin women (wordplay)

Stewardship

STICKHANDLE

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

Stilbestrol

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

Stockjobber

Stockkeeper

Sharon's tools (wordplay)

Rough notes on army's type of manual labour

STONEWALLER stonewall

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

Strabismus

Right now!

At once honest and distant

High speed race track section

STRAIGHT to make {straight=adj}

Hand tool used to draw lines (2 words)

Line-drawing tool

Tool for drawing a perfect line

Put in order

Way of presenting gender that is not kinky