12-letter words containing a, s, t, o, n, i
- reabsorption — resorption (def 2).
- reassumption — the act or process of reassuming something
- reestimation — judgment or opinion: In my estimation the boy is guilty.
- registration — the act of registering.
- relationless — having no family relations
- relationship — a connection, association, or involvement.
- respondentia — a loan upon a ship's cargo, which is repaid with interest if the ship reaches its destination, and if the ship does not, the loan is not repaid
- restauration — restoration
- resupination — a resupinate condition.
- revisitation — the act of visiting.
- roasting ear — an ear of sweet corn suitable for roasting while still in the husk.
- roman strike — a striking mechanism of c1700, giving the equivalent in tones of Roman numerals, a bell of one pitch striking once for each number I, a bell of another pitch striking once for V, twice for X.
- rooseveltian — of, pertaining to, advocating, or following the principles, views, or policies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt or of Theodore Roosevelt.
- royal tennis — court tennis.
- saddle joint — (on a sill, coping, or the like) a vertical joint raised above the level of the washes on each side.
- saddle point — a point at which a function of two variables has partial derivatives equal to zero but at which the function has neither a maximum nor a minimum value.
- sailing boat — sailboat.
- saint jerome — Saint (Eusebius Hieronymus) a.d. c340–420, Christian ascetic and Biblical scholar: chief preparer of the Vulgate version of the Bible.
- saint john's — an island state comprising Antigua and two smaller islands: a member of the former West Indies Associated States; formerly a British crown colony; gained independence 1981. 171 sq. mi. (442 sq. km). Capital: St. John's.
- saint joseph — a city in NW Missouri, on the Missouri River.
- saint moritz — a resort town in SE Switzerland: a popular center for winter sports. 6037 feet (1840 meters) high.
- saint thomas — Saint Thomas ("the Angelic Doctor") 1225?–74, Italian scholastic philosopher: a major theologian of the Roman Catholic Church.
- saint-tropez — a town in SE France, on the French Riviera: beach resort.
- salification — to form into a salt, as by chemical combination.
- salinization — the process by which a nonsaline soil becomes saline, as by the irrigation of land with brackish water.
- salpingotomy — incision of a Fallopian tube.
- saltationism — any of several theories holding that the evolution of species proceeds in major steps by the abrupt transformation of an ancestral species into a descendant species of a different type, rather than by the gradual accumulation of small changes.
- saltationist — a person who adheres to saltationism
- salutational — relating to salutation
- salutatorian — (in some U.S. schools and colleges) the student ranking second highest in the graduating class, who delivers the salutatory at commencement.
- salvationist — a member of the Salvation Army.
- sample point — a possible result of an experiment, represented as a point.
- san antonian — a city in S Texas: site of the Alamo.
- sanctionable — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- sanguinolent — of or relating to blood.
- sanitization — to free from dirt, germs, etc., as by cleaning or sterilizing.
- sankt moritz — German name of St. Moritz.
- sansculottic — relating to sansculottes
- santa monica — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles, on Santa Monica Bay: resort.
- satanophobia — a morbid fear of the devil or Satan
- satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- satin-smooth — pleasantly soft and smooth, like satin
- satirization — to attack or ridicule with satire.
- satisfaction — an act of satisfying; fulfillment; gratification.
- satyromaniac — a lascivious man; lecher.
- scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
- scalp lotion — A scalp lotion is a liquid medication for the treatment of scalp conditions and disorders.
- scapegoating — the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself.
- scarlatinoid — resembling scarlatina or its eruptions.
- scatteration — the act of scattering.