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12-letter words containing a, o, r, t, i, s

  • sacroiliitis — the inflammation of the sacroiliac joint
  • sacrosciatic — of the sacrum and the ischium
  • sail through — If someone or something sails through a difficult situation or experience, they deal with it easily and successfully.
  • saint jerome — Saint (Eusebius Hieronymus) a.d. c340–420, Christian ascetic and Biblical scholar: chief preparer of the Vulgate version of the Bible.
  • saint moritz — a resort town in SE Switzerland: a popular center for winter sports. 6037 feet (1840 meters) high.
  • saint-tropez — a town in SE France, on the French Riviera: beach resort.
  • salutatorian — (in some U.S. schools and colleges) the student ranking second highest in the graduating class, who delivers the salutatory at commencement.
  • salutatorium — a porch or room in a monastery or church serving as a meeting or almsgiving place for monks or priests and the laity.
  • salutiferous — salutary.
  • sankt moritz — German name of St. Moritz.
  • saprophytism — living and feeding on dead organic matter
  • sarcomatosis — the condition in which a sarcoma has become disseminated throughout the body.
  • satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • satirization — to attack or ridicule with satire.
  • satisfactory — giving or affording satisfaction; fulfilling all demands or requirements: a satisfactory solution.
  • satyromaniac — a lascivious man; lecher.
  • scarificator — a person who scarifies.
  • scarlatinoid — resembling scarlatina or its eruptions.
  • scatteration — the act of scattering.
  • scintillator — a phosphor capable of producing scintillations.
  • scopes trial — John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
  • scotch grain — a coarse, pebble-grained finish given to heavy leather, esp. for men's shoes
  • scrobiculate — furrowed or pitted.
  • scsi adaptor — (hardware)   (Or "host adaptor") A device that communicates between a computer and its SCSI peripherals. The SCSI adaptor is usually assigned SCSI ID 7. It is often a separate card that is connected to the computer's bus (e.g. PCI, ISA, PCMCIA) though increasinly, SCSI adaptors are built in to the motherboard. Apart from being cheaper, busses like PCI are too slow to keep up with the newer SCSI standards like Ultra SCSI and Ultra-Wide SCSI. There are several varieties of SCSI (and their connectors) and an adaptor will not support them all. The performance of SCSI devices is limited by the speed of the SCSI adaptor and its connection to the computer. An adaptor that plugs into a parallel port is unlikely to be as fast as one incorporated into a motherboard. Fast adaptors use DMA or bus mastering. Some SCSI adaptors include a BIOS to allow PCs to boot from a SCSI hard disk, if their own BIOS supports it. Note that it is not a "SCSI controller" - it does not control the devices, and "SCSI interface" is redundant - the "I" of "SCSI" stands for "interface".
  • sea milkwort — a maritime plant, Glaux maritima, having small, pinkish-white flowers.
  • secobarbital — a white, odorless, slightly bitter powder, C 1 2 H 1 8 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative and hypnotic.
  • section mark — section (def 16).
  • semi-dormant — lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid: The lecturer's sudden shout woke the dormant audience.
  • semitropical — subtropical.
  • senarmontite — a mineral, antimony trioxide, Sb 2 O 3 , occurring in pearl-colored isometric octahedrons: a dimorph of valentinite.
  • seronegative — showing no significant level of serum antibodies, or other immunologic marker in the serum, that would indicate previous exposure to the infectious agent being tested.
  • seroreaction — any reaction occurring in serum.
  • share option — A share option is an opportunity for the employees of a company to buy shares at a special price.
  • shooting war — open conflict between hostile nations involving direct military engagements.
  • short radius — the perpendicular distance from the centre of a regular polygon to a side
  • short-acting — (of a drug) quickly effective, but requiring regularly repeated doses for long-term treatment, being rapidly absorbed, distributed in the body, and excreted
  • short-haired — having short hair
  • signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
  • significator — a planet deemed significant in astrology
  • silk factory — plant where silk fabric is produced
  • simhat torah — a Jewish festival, celebrated on the 23d day of Tishri, that marks the end of the annual cycle of Torah readings and the beginning of the next cycle
  • sinanthropus — the genus to which Peking man was formerly assigned.
  • sinistration — the quality or state of being left-handed.
  • smart cookie — intelligent or sharp-witted person
  • socratically — of or relating to Socrates or his philosophy, followers, etc., or to the Socratic method.
  • solidaristic — relating to solidarism
  • solitariness — alone; without companions; unattended: a solitary passer-by.
  • solitary bee — any of numerous bees, as the leaf-cutting bees, that do not live in a community.
  • solway firth — an arm of the Irish Sea between SW Scotland and NW England. 38 miles (61 km) long.
  • somatotropin — a hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland, that stimulates growth in humans.
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