12-letter words containing a, i, r, d, s, e
- slide guitar — bottleneck (def 3).
- 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.
- social order — structure or hierarchy of society
- soldier crab — a small blue Australian estuarine crab of the Mictyris genus usually found in large numbers
- spearheading — the sharp-pointed head that forms the piercing end of a spear.
- spermaticide — spermicide.
- spermatocide — spermicide.
- spermatozoid — a motile male gamete produced in an antheridium.
- 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.
- spit-roasted — cooked on a spit
- squared ring — boxing ring.
- stage-driver — the driver of a stagecoach.
- standardized — to bring to or make of an established standard size, weight, quality, strength, or the like: to standardize manufactured parts.
- steam-driven — powered by steam
- stearic acid — a colorless, waxlike, sparingly water-soluble, odorless solid, C 1 8 H 3 6 O 2 , the most common fatty acid, occurring as the glyceride in tallow and other animal fats and in some animal oils: used chiefly in the manufacture of soaps, stearates, candles, cosmetics, and in medicine in suppositories and pill coatings.
- stellar wind — the radial outflow of ionized gas from a star.
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- straightbred — (of animals) purebred; having parents of the same breed
- straightedge — a bar or strip of wood, plastic, or metal having at least one long edge of sufficiently reliable straightness for use in drawing or testing straight lines, plane surfaces, etc.
- strait-laced — excessively strict in conduct or morality; puritanical; prudish: strait-laced censors.
- stride piano — a style of jazz piano playing in which the right hand plays the melody while the left hand plays a single bass note or octave on the strong beat and a chord on the weak beat, developed in Harlem during the 1920s, partly from ragtime piano playing.
- strike hands — to show agreement by clasping hands
- stringhalted — afflicted with stringhalt
- striped bass — an important American game fish, Morone saxatilis, having blackish stripes along each side.
- subeditorial — of or relating to a subeditor, the work of a subeditor or a subeditorship
- subepidermal — just below the epidermis or skin
- suberic acid — a crystalline dibasic acid, C 8 H 1 4 O 4 , obtained especially from suberin, castor oil, and cork: used chiefly in the preparation of plastics and plasticizers.
- subordinated — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- sugar glider — a gliding possum, Petaurus breviceps, inhabiting open forests of New Guinea, Tasmania, and Australia.
- sulfarsenide — any compound containing an arsenide and a sulfide.
- superordinal — relating to the superorder
- swim bladder — air bladder (def 2).
- tardenoisian — of or referring to a Mesolithic culture characterized by small flint instruments
- tear-stained — marked or wet with tears: a tear-stained letter.
- the nearside — the side of a vehicle normally nearer the kerb (in Britain, the left side)
- third estate — the third of the three estates or political orders: the commons in France or England. Compare estate (def 5).
- third stream — a style of music that uses features of both jazz and classical music in an attempt to develop a new and distinctive musical idiom.
- thitherwards — in that direction
- tinker's dam — the least value or merit; nothing or anything at all: It's not worth a tinker's damn.
- tradescantia — any plant of the American genus Tradescantia, widely cultivated for their striped variegated leaves: family Commelinaceae
- transcending — to rise above or go beyond; overpass; exceed: to transcend the limits of thought; kindness transcends courtesy.
- transdialect — to translate (speech, writing, etc.) into a different dialect.
- transit shed — a building located on or near a pier (piershed) or wharf (wharf shed) used for short-term storage of cargo in transit.
- trepidations — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- trepidatious — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
- tricuspidate — having three cusps or flaps.
- tropicalised — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- tryparsamide — a white, crystalline powder, C 8 H 10 O 4 N 2 AsNa·½H 2 , used chiefly in treating African sleeping sickness.
- twisted pair — A twisted pair is a pair of wires that are twisted together to reduce interference.