12-Letter Words Starting with S

Hair care item

Honesty is his strangest failing

A case for arms limitation (wordplay)

Something that restricts.

No sane person is likely to assume it

Straitness

STRANDED strand

Hulk Hogan's choker (wordplay)

Force that menaces freedom.

Complete power over a situation

""Having the circulation stopped by compression; attended with arrest or obstruction of circulation, caused by constriction or compression; as, a strangulated hernia. as, a strangulated hernia.""

Strangulate

Certain commuters.

Travellers with a long-standing grievance

Subwayites.

Using train when no seats available (wordplay)

STRATEGIZE

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

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

Wimbledon favourite (wordplay)

Sweet, fleshy red fruit

Brewer's art is transforming fruit

Strawflower

Vehicles seen at Bonneville Salt Flats (pl.)

STREAMLINE

Courses about Pale provides illumination

By the way, they're needed to see the cat's eyes

They show the way trees changed, though at first a slight change

Streetscape

Pedestrian way reversed by solicitor

Solicitor on march in Somerset town (wordplay)

Made more robust

Reinforced

Something making less weak

Power changed Rene into a strong supporter

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.

Strictness

""STRIDULATE To make a shrill, creaking noise""

The act of stridulating.

Stridulous; able to stridulate; used in stridulating; adapted for stridulation.

Stridulous

""A horizontal band in a building, forming a part of the design, whether molded, projecting, or carved, or in any way distinguished from the rest of the work.""

Stringency

Stringhalt

Stringpiece

Stringybark

Stripteaser

""The act or phenomenon of spontaneously dividing transversely, as do certain species of annelids and helminths; transverse fission. See Illust. under Syllidian. Illust. under Syllidian.""

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.

Very old fossil in sedimentary rocks

Mineral Sr C O 3; attention, sir (anagram)

""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.""

Structural

STUBBORN to be unyielding

Sturdiness

""ANTARCTIC Opposite to the northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it, and applied especially to a circle, distant from the pole 23° 28&min;. Thus we say the antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc. antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc.""

ARACHNOID Resembling a spider's web; cobweblike.

Subcentral

Public transportation is overturned, gets smaller and delegates work

CULTURING culture

Plural or third person singular

Subdirector

Subdistrict

""EDITORIAL Of or pertaining to an editor; written or sanctioned by an editor; as, editorial labors; editorial remarks. as, editorial labors; editorial remarks.""

Situated immediately below the epidermis.

""Conversion of the cell walls into cork tissue by development of suberin; -- commonly taking place in exposed tissues, as when a callus forms over a wound. Suberized cell walls are impervious to water.""

Subinterval

IRRIGATED irrigate

Subirrigate

An under or assistant librarian.

Sublittoral

Of the lower jaw.

Submergence

Submersible

MICROGRAM

Of greatly reduced size

Subminister

NORMALITY Conformity with the norm; the state of being normal; the normal condition.

ORBICULAR Resembling or having the form of an orb; spherical; circular; orbiculate.

ORDINATED ordinate

They could be under boss at head of institution

""SUBORDINATE Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position.""

Subornation

""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.""

""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

Subrogation

SATURATED saturate

Regular payment

Membership fee

Copy-editor number one upset by writing fee

""SECRETARY One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets.""

Subordinate in capacity or function.

""The quality or state of being subservient; instrumental fitness or use; hence, willingness to serve another's purposes; in a derogatory sense, servility.""

Companies controlled by a parent one

In a subsidiary manner; so as to assist.

""1. (Christianity / Roman Catholic Church) (in the Roman Catholic Church) a principle of social doctrine that all social bodies exist for the sake of the individual so that what individuals are able to do, society should not take over, and what small societies can do, larger societies should not take over""

Underlying framework

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

Of the nether world.

Train near Eastburn for The Underground

Underground; secret

""THRESHOLD The plank, stone, or piece of timber, which lies under a door, especially of a dwelling house, church, temple, or the like; the doorsill; hence, entrance; gate; door.""

Deductions for bus con artist crashed

Subumbrella

URBANISED urbanise

Suburbanise

Suburbanite

URBANIZED urbanize

Suburbanize

Subvariety

Subversive

""Producing, or secreting, sweat; sudoriparous.""

Feminists with staff sure get angry!

Emmeline Pankhurst et al.

Sugarberry

Making sweet love in windy act, ruing gas

""Any of a group of hypoglycemic drugs, such as tolbutamide, that act on the beta cells of the pancreas to increase the secretion of insulin.""

Sulfuret

SULPHURISE

Sultriness

""SUMMARIZE To comprise in, or reduce to, a summary; to present briefly.""

Belvedere's type of school diets

Gymnastic Samuel strums then leaps about

Sunscreen

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.