12-Letter Words Starting with S

Skeletonize

SKITTISH easily frightened

Shooting up, in a way

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

""Slaphappier , slaphappiest Slang Dazed, silly, or incoherent from or as if from blows to the head; punch-drunk.""

SLAUGHTERER One who slaughters.

Slaughter

Destructive; murderous.

English dogs with a keen sense of smell

Slightness

Slipstream

Inactivity

(Economics) a situation in which economic depression is combined with increasing inflation [blend of slump + inflation ]

SLUTTISH {slovenly=adj}

A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches. Breeches.

Smithsonite

Smoothness

Smuttiness

English word

Broken or projecting gnasher

Snapshooter

Snapshot

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

Snootiness

Snottiness

SNOWMOBILE

Sociologist

Sociometry

Softheaded

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.

Earnest request

Solicitous

SOLIDARIST

Solidarity

""The slow, downhill movement of soil or other material in areas typically underlain by frozen ground.""

Soliloquist

Isolation (of a hermit?)

Solmization

Solubility

Somatology

Somatomedin

""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.""

""A polypeptide hormone produced chiefly by the hypothalamus that inhibits the secretion of various other hormones, such as somatotropin, glucagon, insulin, thyrotropin, and gastrin.""

See growth hormone .

Flipped

Somerset

Sleep

To walk when <?/sleep.

Not a consciously progressive type

One who is out and about

Peripatetic sleeper

Tending to produce sleep; hypnotic.

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

SOOTHING the act of soothing

Soothsaying

An experienced and knowledgeable person

Who's disported at posh cities (wordplay)

Worldly-wise type making epic that is so disorganised

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.""

Spaceflight

Spaghettini

Spanakopita

Spanokopita

Spasmolytic

Spasticity

Spatiality

Spatterdock

""SPECIALIST One who devotes himself to some specialty; as, a medical specialist, one who devotes himself to diseases of particular parts of the body, as the eye, the ear, the nerves, etc. as, a medical specialist, one who devotes himself to diseases of particular parts of the body, as the eye, the ear, the nerves, etc.""

Speciality

SPECIATION

Speciosity

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.

Speculation

Politician's alter ego (wordplay)

William Safire, once

Speedboat

Vehicle-velocity indicators

Often-ignored dash displays

Indicators of velocity

Potholer - I'll goose-step (anagram)

Footballer in alone, meaning he plumbs the depths

Pigs let loose (anagram) - one who studies caves

They have no saving graces

""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 .""

Spessartine

Spessartite

Sphericity

Spherometer

Spheroplast

Spiculation

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

Spiteful

Petty ill will

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

SPOTLESS {clean=adj}

Spotlight

Spottiness

Make the beds (wordplay)

Sprightful

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

Springwater

Stableness

Establishment.

Stadtholder

Travelling drama teachers (wordplay)

Carriers of strongboxes

Transport for drama teachers

Stagflation

Ryan Giggs let loose in striking fashion

Dog with German entering alone in amazing fashion

Abstract noun (-ity)

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

STANDPAT resisting or opposing change

Pl. stapedectomies Surgical removal of the stapes.

Staphylinid

Starboard

Startlement

Stationery

Numerical data analyst

One analysing data

One analysing numerical facts

In a statuesque manner; in a way suggestive of a statue; like a statue.

Steadiness

Ninja's speciality

Furtive behaviour

Steamfitter

Steaminess

They make pancakes (wordplay)

Vehicles used for compacting roads

Restore small model vehicles

Steamroll

Steatopygia

Having fat buttocks.

Steatorrhea

Steeliness

Steelmaking

United group

"United" group

Competition for pastors (wordplay)

High Church breaking contract for event

Race with jumps

Workers in high places.

High climbers.

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

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.

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

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.""

Virgin women (wordplay)

Stewardship

Drama ()

Drama ()

Stickhandle

STICKHANDLE