12-letter words containing a, c, e, s, l
- space flight — journey into outer space
- space helmet — a helmet worn by astronauts while in outer space
- space travel — spaceflight of manned vehicles.
- space-filler — a short article of little or no importance written to fill space in a magazine or newspaper
- special area — distressed area.
- special case — exception
- special jury — struck jury.
- special plea — a plea that alleges special or new matter as an answer to the allegations made by the opposite side and not as a denial of them.
- special rule — a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.: the rules of chess.
- special sort — a character, such as an accented letter, that is not a usual member of any font
- special team — Football. a group of players fielded for kicking plays, as punts, kickoffs, and field-goal attempts.
- special term — the sitting of a court for the trial of a special case.
- specialising — to pursue some special line of study, work, etc.; have a specialty: The doctor specializes in gastroenterology.
- specialistic — pertaining to or characteristic of specialists or specialism.
- specialities — specialty.
- speciational — relating to speciation
- specifically — in a definite or precise manner: The suspect was not specifically named in the report. More specifically, you will be responsible for half the total cost.
- spectatorial — a person who looks on or watches; onlooker; observer.
- speculatrice — a female speculator
- spermatocele — a swelling of the testicle
- sphacelation — the process of mortification
- sphericality — the state of being a sphere
- sphincterial — relating to a sphincter
- spirochaetal — resulting from spirochaetes
- sprachgefuhl — a sensitivity to language, especially for what is grammatically or idiomatically acceptable in a given language.
- spring-clean — to subject (a place) to a spring-cleaning.
- st. lawrence — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
- stacked heel — a shoe heel constructed from several layers of material.
- star cluster — a number of stars of common origin held together as a group by gravitational attraction. Compare globular cluster, open cluster, stellar association.
- state police — a police force under state authority rather than under the authority of a city or county in the state.
- state school — A state school is a school that is controlled and funded by the government or a local authority, and which children can attend without having to pay.
- stated clerk — an administrative official in the Presbyterian Church and certain other Protestant churches
- steeplechase — a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
- sternocostal — of, relating to, or situated between the sternum and ribs.
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- stipulaceous — of, relating to, having, resembling, or living on stipules
- stock saddle — Western saddle.
- storage cell — a cell whose energy can be renewed by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to that of the flow of current generated by the cell.
- storm cellar — a cellar or underground chamber for refuge during violent storms; cyclone cellar.
- straddleback — astride, on horseback
- strait-laced — excessively strict in conduct or morality; puritanical; prudish: strait-laced censors.
- straticulate — made up of or arranged in thin layers.
- subcelestial — being beneath the heavens; terrestrial.
- subcentrally — in a subcentral manner
- subduplicate — of the square root of ratios
- subjectional — the act of subjecting.
- submolecular — of or relating to or caused by molecules: molecular structure.
- subopercular — of or relating to the suboperculum
- subscribable — to pledge, as by signing an agreement, to give or pay (a sum of money) as a contribution, gift, or investment: He subscribed $6,000 for the new church.
- subspecialty — a lesser or minor specialty: a cinematographer with a subspecialty of portrait photography.