12-Letter Words Starting with S

Stickhandle

Stickiness

Small spiny fish

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

""STIGMATIZE To mark with a stigma, or brand; as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers. as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers.""

Stilbestrol

Stimulation

Stinginess

Stipulation

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

Stockiness

Stockinette

Stockjobber

The act or art of dealing in stocks; the business of a stockjobber.

Stockkeeper

Stocktaking

Stodginess

Tolerate some pain (wordplay)

Reasons for sick days

Results of overeating

Plural or third person singular

Stomatitis

Sharon's tools (wordplay)

Hewing or dressing stone.

Rough notes on army's type of manual labour

STONEWALLER stonewall

Delaying tactics? Nothing new in that!

Consistently blocking deliveries

Nothing new in holding things up or being obstructive

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

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

Studentship

STUDIOUS given to study

Stuffiness

Total astonishment and shock

Shocked astonishment

Extreme astonishment

Stupefying

In a marvelous way

Stupidness

Sturdiness

Stylization

""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.""

Subaudition

Subbasement

Subcentral

Group reporting to a larger one

Group responsible for water-based craft has a job answering to others

Underground organisation possibly returns transport to council

Hyman Rickover's alma mater (wordplay)

""COMPONENT Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent.""

Man on bench goes to Europe from India perhaps

Mounting bus, happy to be getting around in India (wordplay)

One of those on the bench approaches America for the Indians

Public transportation is overturned, gets smaller and delegates work

CULTURING culture

Plural or third person singular

Under the skin

Just under the skin

Terribly cute, on a bus, American gets under skin

DEBUTANTE

Subdirector

Subdistrict

Subdominant

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

""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.""

SUBINFEUD

Subinterval

IRRIGATED irrigate

Subirrigate

Subjective

SUBJECTIVE Of or pertaining to a subject.

""Any philosophical doctrine which refers all knowledge to, and founds it upon, any subjective states; egoism.""

One who holds to subjectivism; an egoist.

The quality or state of being subjective; character of the subject.

SUBJECTIVE Of or pertaining to a subject.

Subjugation

Subjunction

In a manner of speaking, moods imagined or wished

Sublimation

Sublittoral

Subluxation

Of greatly reduced size

Subminister

Submultiple

Submunition

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

OPTIMIZED optimize

Suboptimize

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

Subpotency

Subrogation

""SATELLITE An attendant attached to a prince or other powerful person; hence, an obsequious dependent.""

SATURATED saturate

Regular payment

Membership fee

Copy-editor number one upset by writing fee

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

Subsentence

Later on

Afterwards

Consequently, transport returned in an orderly fashion

""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""

Subsistence

Subsociety

SPECIALTY Particularity.

Essential parts.

Prove truth of (charge)

Prove to be true

Prove the truth of

Of or pertaining to a substantive; of the nature of substantive.

Substantive

Substituent

""SUBSTITUTE One who, or that which, is substituted or put in the place of another; one who acts for another; that which stands in lieu of something else""

Replacement of one thing by another

Replacement

Tending to afford or furnish a substitute; making substitution; capable of being substituted.

Underlying framework

Subsumption

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

Subtenancy

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.""

Subtleness

Subtotal

Deductions for bus con artist crashed

Suburbanite

Subvariety

SUCCINCT clearly expressed in a few words

Enough clues in fifty puzzles (wordplay)

Tiny scuffle involved restraining one adequately

Adequately

Suffixation

Suffocation

Feminists with staff sure get angry!

Emmeline Pankhurst et al.

Making sweet love in windy act, ruing gas

Lusty veggies dancing erotically

Sue's sin misconstrued around table - how fitting is that (wordplay)

Sulfonation

Sulfuret

Sultriness

Gymnastic Samuel strums then leaps about

Superaltern

Pension off

English word

Superbitch

English word

Supercenter

A group of neighboring clusters of galaxies.

To offer no resistance is good behaviour

Demonstrate zero electrical resistance

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.""

""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

SUPERHEATER An apparatus for superheating steam.

Superheat

Superinfect