12-letter words containing a, s, t, o, n, i
- sorbefacient — inducing absorption
- sorting yard — sorting tracks.
- south island — the largest island of New Zealand. 58,093 sq. mi. (150,460 sq. km).
- south-facing — facing towards the south
- spanish foot — a carved pyramidal foot having fluted, concave sides usually ending in a scroll at the bottom.
- sparcstation — (computer) A family of workstations from Sun Microsystems based on the SPARC architecture. Models include the SPARCStation 1, 1+, SLC, SPARCStation ELC, IPX, SPARCStation 5, SPARCStation 10 and SPARCStation 20.
- speciational — relating to speciation
- speedboating — the act, practice, or sport of traveling in a speedboat.
- sphacelation — the process of mortification
- spiflication — rough treatment
- splenization — the transformation of something into a spleenlike tissue
- spongioblast — one of the primordial cells in the embryonic brain and spinal cord capable of developing into neuroglia.
- spotsylvania — a village in NE Virginia: the scene of Civil War battles between the armies of Grant and Lee, May 8–21, 1864.
- staging post — an area, as a port of embarkation, where troops are assembled and readied for transit to a new field of operations.
- stakhanovism — a method for increasing production by rewarding individual initiative, developed in the Soviet Union in 1935.
- stakhanovite — a worker in the Soviet Union who regularly surpassed production quotas and was specially honored and rewarded.
- stand in for — to substitute for
- stand-offish — If you say that someone is stand-offish, you mean that they behave in a formal and rather unfriendly way.
- stanniferous — containing tin; tin-bearing
- state prison — a prison maintained by a state for the confinement of felons.
- station days — days on which ceremonies are held in station churches
- stationeries — writing paper.
- stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
- steady-going — steadfast; faithful; unchanging: steady-going service to the cause of justice.
- stegosaurian — having the characteristics of a stegosaur
- stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
- stercoranism — the belief that the consecrated Eucharistic elements, the bread and wine, are subject to decay and pass through the body like other ingested things
- stercoranist — a person who believes in stercoranism
- stereoptican — a projector usually consisting of two complete lanterns arranged so that one picture appears to dissolve while the next is forming.
- sternutation — the act of sneezing.
- stick around — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- stocking cap — a long, conical, knitted cap, usually with a tassel or pompon at the tip.
- stonewalling — the act of stalling, evading, or filibustering, especially to avoid revealing politically embarrassing information.
- storage ring — a device for storing charged particles fed from an accelerator, consisting of a set of magnets placed in a ring and adjusted to keep the particles circulating until they are used.
- storage unit — rented space to store items
- storm signal — a visual signal, as a flag, giving advance notice of a heavy storm, used especially along coastal areas.
- strepitation — the quality or state of being strepitant
- 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.
- string along — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- strobilation — asexual reproduction by division into segments, as in tapeworms and jellyfishes
- strontianite — a mineral, strontium carbonate, SrCO 3 , occurring in radiating, fibrous, or granular aggregates and crystals, varying from white to yellow and pale green: a minor ore of strontium.
- strophanthin — a very poisonous, bitter glycoside or mixture of glycosides obtained from the dried, ripe seeds of a strophanthus, especially Strophanthus kombe, used as a cardiac stimulant.
- stupefaction — the state of being stupefied; stupor.
- subarcuation — a structure that is somewhat arched
- subdiaconate — the office or dignity of a subdeacon.
- suberization — the impregnation of cell walls with suberin, causing the formation of cork.
- subhastation — a public auction or sale
- subjectional — the act of subjecting.
- sublineation — an underlining
- subordinated — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.