12-Letter Words Starting with S

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

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

""SCANDALIZE To offend the feelings of the conscience of (a person) by some action which is considered immoral or criminal; to bring shame, disgrace, or reproach upon.""

SCHEMATIZE To form a scheme or schemes.

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

Schismatize

Schizogony

""Reproduction by multiple asexual fission, characteristic of many sporozoans.""

English word

Shmaltzy

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.""

To imbue with sectarian feelings; to subject to the control of a sect.

Secularizer

""SECULARIZE To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or a monk. as, to secularize a priest or a monk.""

SECURITIZE

""SENSUALIZE To make sensual; to subject to the love of sensual pleasure; to debase by carnal gratifications; to carnalize; as, sensualized by pleasure. as, sensualized by pleasure.""

SINGULARIZE To make singular or single; to distinguish.

Singularize

""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.""

Skeletonize

Sleaziness

Dieter's aim.

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.

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

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

Does a stage routine.

Solmization

SOLUBILIZE

SPECIALIZE To mention specialy; to particularize.

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 .""

""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.""

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

Standardize

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

STRATEGIZE

Stylization

""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.""

SUBJECTIVE Of or pertaining to a subject.

OPTIMIZED optimize

Suboptimize

URBANIZED urbanize

Suburbanize

VOCALIZED vocalize

Subvocalize

""A sulfa drug, C 10 H 10 N 4 O 2 S, used in the treatment of toxoplasmosis and other infections.""

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

Suzerainty

SYMMETRIZE To make proportional in its parts; to reduce to symmetry.

Sympathizer

""SYMPATHIZE To have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain.""

SYNCHRONIZE To agree in time; to be simultaneous.

Camera device.

Synchronize

SYNCRETIZE

SYNONYMIZE To express by a synonym or synonyms; to give the synonym or synonyms corresponding to.

Synthesizer

SYNTHESIZE To combine by synthesis; to unite.

""SYSTEMATIZE To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas.""

One who systematizes.

Systematize