12-Letter Words Starting with S

Baseball E-stats study

""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.""

Sacculation

In a sacerdotal manner.

Sacramental

Saddlecloth

SADISTIC pertaining to a {sadist=n}

Sailboating

Salability

""SALINIZE to treat with salt, also SALINISE""

Salinometer

Saltimbocca

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

""SALUTATION The act of saluting, or paying respect or reverence, by the customary words or actions; the act of greeting, or expressing good will or courtesy; also, that which is uttered or done in saluting or greeting.""

""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.""

""SALVATION The act of saving; preservation or deliverance from destruction, danger, or great calamity.""

Army officer, like 10's major

Sanctimony

SANCTION to authorize

Graffiti removers

Process for cleaning or engraving

Pueblo Indian art

Native American art

Sanguinity

""SANITIZE to clean and sterilize, also SANITISE, SANITATE""

Sansculotte

""Pertaining to, or involving, sansculottism; radical; revolutionary; Jacobinical.""

Disease and Illness

Formation of numerous sarcomas in various parts of the body.

I can't get no - (Rolling Stones)

The Stones couldn't get it

Fulfillment ... and #2 on the list

End of the week: is plant OK (wordplay)

Stray cat? If so, stray's OK!

Good or bad, sits a plant

So as to satisfy; satisfactorily.

Sauerbraten

Blowhards (wordplay)

Musicians

Scantiness

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.""

Preoccupied with excrement

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

SCHEMATIZE To form a scheme or schemes.

Same as Schismatic. Schismatic.

SCHISMATIZE To make part in schism; to make a breach of communion in the church.

Schismatize

SCHISTOSOME

Schistosome

Shmaltzy

The classroom (anagram)

Teacher of fish (wordplay)

Instructor at Eton, say

Schottische

A device for producing a scintigram; a scintiscanner.

Scintillate

Scintillate

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

Central American flycatchers

Sclerometer

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)

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.

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

Scurrility

Scuttlebutt

""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

Seamstress

Sweeping beams

The rich glass contrived for high-powered lamps

One breaking away from a federation

""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.

""A disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a section of the country; local patriotism, as distinguished from national.""

""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

SECURITIZE

Sedateness

SEDIMENT to settle in the bottom of a liquid

Femmes fatales

Division into parts

Segregation

Seismicity

An expert at assessing faults (wordplay)

One who studies earthquakes

Earthquake scientist

Seismometer

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

""SELECTION The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference.""

Selectness

""Astronomy the branch of astronomy that studies the physical characteristics of the moon. ; selenologist , ; selenological ,""

Semantical

Semanticist

ABSTRACT to draw away

(Of houses) joined in pairs

Decide Thames could do for a house

Type of house

""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.""

DOMINANT a controlling genetic character

One who's moved closer to a win

One in last four of a contest

One of last four left in competition

Fruits (spelled backward) + Repeat = (wordplay)

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

LUSTROUS reflecting light evenly and efficiently

Of or pertaining to a semimetal; possessing metallic properties in an inferior degree; resembling metal.

MONASTIC a {monk=n}

MYSTICAL spiritually significant

Seminudity

Semiologist

Semiotician

Semioticist

""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

Items attached to highway tractors

Warm, as a climate

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

Sempstress

Senatorship

Senectitude

""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

Sensual.

Sensuality

Sensuosity

Sentinel

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

One after the other

In succession, it's Queen badly needing friend

Confiscating band of gold after search in bishop's domain

SEQUESTRATE To sequester.

Sequestrate

SERICULTURE The raising of silkworms.

Sericulture

(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

Fractions of number in choppers to put on uniform on board

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

Sewability

Sextodecimo

SEXTUPLE to make six times as great

Abstract noun (-ity)

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

Shelterbelt

Shergottite

Shiftiness

Shinplaster

Shirtdress

SHIRTSLEEVE

(In) jacketless state

Symbol of informality.

Being in these one has no jacket on

Shittimwood

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!

Informal A performance or performer that evokes so much applause from the audience that the show is temporarily interrupted.

Shrievalty

Shuttlecock

Sidestepper

Evading, in a way

Desist moving forest as evasive action

Avoidance behaviour that is seen in South Essex town

Creating distraction, wrongly directs a monarch

Silentness

""SILHOUETTE A representation of the outlines of an object filled in with a black color; a profile portrait in black, such as a shadow appears to be.""

""SILHOUETTE A representation of the outlines of an object filled in with a black color; a profile portrait in black, such as a shadow appears to be.""

Sillimanite

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

Simplicity

Simulcast

The quality or state of being simultaneous; simultaneousness.

Happening at the same time

Done at the same time

Occurring at same time

Sinfonietta

Singlestick

SINISTER portending evil

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

A berserk toad (anagram)

Someone on a short plank with wheels

Ray the lodger's a sportsman

SKELETONISE

Skeletonise

""SKELETONIZE To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its skeleton.""

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