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

  • 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.
  • somatopleure — the double layer formed by the association of the upper layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the overlying ectoderm, functioning in the formation of the body wall and amnion.
  • sorosilicate — any of the silicates in which each silicate tetrahedron shares one of its four oxygen atoms with a neighboring tetrahedron, the ratio of silicon to oxygen being two to seven.
  • special sort — a character, such as an accented letter, that is not a usual member of any font
  • spectatorial — a person who looks on or watches; onlooker; observer.
  • spermatocele — a swelling of the testicle
  • spirochaetal — resulting from spirochaetes
  • sportability — suitability to be used in or as a sport
  • stabilizator — a stabilizer
  • stabilograph — an instrument for measuring body sway.
  • stakeholders — the holder of the stakes of a wager.
  • stalactiform — resembling or shaped like a stalactite.
  • state flower — a flower chosen as an official symbol of a U.S. state.
  • steam boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
  • steam-boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
  • steam-roller — a heavy steam-powered vehicle having a roller for crushing, compacting, or leveling materials used for a road or the like.
  • stenothermal — (of animals or plants) able to exist only within a narrow range of temperature
  • sternocostal — of, relating to, or situated between the sternum and ribs.
  • stigmasterol — a crystalline, water-insoluble steroid, C 2 9 H 4 8 O, present in soybeans or calabar beans, used chiefly as a raw material in the manufacture of progesterone.
  • storage cell — a cell whose energy can be renewed by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to that of the flow of current generated by the cell.
  • storage wall — a set of shelves, cabinets, or the like that covers or forms a wall.
  • storm cellar — a cellar or underground chamber for refuge during violent storms; cyclone cellar.
  • storm collar — a high collar on a coat
  • storm signal — a visual signal, as a flag, giving advance notice of a heavy storm, used especially along coastal areas.
  • storm-lashed — badly affected by storms
  • stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
  • straw yellow — a pale yellow; straw color.
  • 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
  • stromatolite — a laminated calcareous fossil structure built by marine algae and having a rounded or columnar form.
  • strophiolate — having a strophiole
  • stylographic — of or relating to a stylograph.
  • sub-tropical — Sub-tropical places have a climate that is warm and wet, and are often near tropical regions.
  • subeditorial — of or relating to a subeditor, the work of a subeditor or a subeditorship
  • subfactorial — the number of ways a group of objects can be arranged so that none of the objects are in their original or correct place
  • superfrontal — a piece of cloth placed over an altar and frontal and hanging down a few inches over the front of the altar
  • superovulate — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
  • supplicatory — to pray humbly; make humble and earnest entreaty or petition.
  • supraglottal — situated above the glottis
  • supraorbital — situated above the eye socket.
  • surmountable — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
  • symbololatry — the worship of symbols
  • telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
  • teleosaurian — of or relating to the teleosaur
  • telesoftware — the transmission of computer programs on a teletext system
  • tenuirostral — pertaining to a group of birds Tenuirostres which have slender bills
  • thalassocrat — a nation that has dominion over the seas.
  • the populars — cheap newspapers with mass circulation; the popular press
  • theologaster — a person who pretends to be a theologian; a shallow or quack theologian
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