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12-letter words containing a, d, l, e, s

  • self-loading — noting or pertaining to an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
  • self-reading — the action or practice of a person who reads.
  • self-starved — to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
  • self-treated — to act or behave toward (a person) in some specified way: to treat someone with respect.
  • sell-by date — the last date on which perishable food should be sold, usually established with some allowance for home storage under refrigeration. Compare shelf life.
  • semi-invalid — a person who is partially disabled or somewhat infirm
  • serial bonds — Serial bonds are bonds that are issued at the same time but have staggered maturity dates.
  • several-fold — comprising several parts or members.
  • shamefacedly — modest or bashful.
  • shared logic — the sharing of a central processing unit and associated software among several terminals
  • shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
  • shield match — a cricket match for the Sheffield Shield
  • shirt-tailed — (of a garment) having a shirt-tail
  • shoulder bag — a handbag with shoulder strap attached.
  • shoulder pad — clothing: insert in shoulder
  • shoulder-bag — A shoulder-bag is a bag that has a long strap so that it can be carried on a person's shoulder.
  • shovel-ready — of or relating to a construction project that is ready to start immediately
  • shuffleboard — a game in which standing players shove or push wooden or plastic disks with a long cue toward numbered scoring sections marked on a floor or deck.
  • sialadenitis — inflammation of one or more of the salivary glands.
  • sidereal day — the interval between two successive passages of the vernal equinox over the meridian, being about four minutes shorter than a mean solar day.
  • silver medal — a medal, traditionally of silver or silver in color, awarded to a person or team finishing second in a competition, meet, or tournament.
  • single modal — modal (def 3).
  • six-year-old — being six years in age
  • skelmersdale — a town in NW England, in Lancashire: designated a new town in 1962. Pop: 39 279 (2001)
  • slave driver — an overseer of slaves.
  • slave trader — sb who traffics in people
  • slave-driver — an overseer of slaves.
  • sledgehammer — a large heavy hammer wielded with both hands.
  • sleep around — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
  • sleeve board — a small-scale ironing board for pressing sleeves, especially a narrow board that fits inside a coat sleeve.
  • sliced bread — bread: sold pre-sliced
  • slide guitar — bottleneck (def 3).
  • slide-action — (of a rifle or shotgun) having a lever that when slid back and forth ejects the empty case and cocks and reloads the piece.
  • sliding seat — a rower's seat that rides on wheels in metal tracks fastened to the boat's frame, allowing the seat to slide back and forth, thereby tapping the rower's leg strength to maximize the stroke.
  • slim disease — a form of AIDS common in Africa, marked by emaciation and fever.
  • sloped roman — a roman (vertical) typeface, usually sans serif, i.e. without the small, decorative, terminal strokes with which some typefaces are designed. The typeface is made to slope (usually to the right), but not generally to the same degree as a true italic typeface
  • slumbershade — sleep shade.
  • small wonder — (I am) hardly surprised (that)
  • small-minded — selfish, petty, or narrow-minded.
  • snail darter — a tan, striped, snail-eating perch, Percina tanasi, 3 inches (7.5 cm) long, occurring only in the Tennessee River: a threatened species.
  • snow leopard — a long-haired, leopardlike feline, Panthera (Uncia) uncia, of mountain ranges of central Asia, having a relatively small head and a thick, creamy-gray coat with rosette spots: an endangered species.
  • social media — websites and other online means of communication that are used by large groups of people to share information and to develop social and professional contacts: Many businesses are utilizing social media to generate sales.
  • social order — structure or hierarchy of society
  • softheadedly — in a soft-headed manner
  • soldier crab — a small blue Australian estuarine crab of the Mictyris genus usually found in large numbers
  • south hadley — a city in W Massachusetts.
  • speedballing — the practice of taking cocaine and heroin together intravenously
  • spider plant — Also called ribbon plant. a plant, Chlorophytum comosum, of the lily family, native to southern Africa, that has long, narrow leaves and clusters of white flowers and is widely cultivated as a houseplant.
  • spotted tail — (Sinte-galeshka) 1833?–81, Brulé Sioux leader.
  • spread eagle — the representation of an eagle with outstretched wings, used as an emblem of the US
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