12-letter words containing a, t, n, s, o
- situationism — the theory that behavior is chiefly response to immediate situations.
- situationist — the theory that behavior is chiefly response to immediate situations.
- skeleton car — a freight car essentially consisting of a central longitudinal girder fastened to the trucks, sometimes supplemented by one or more pairs of cross cantilevers: used for carrying logs or containers.
- skeleton law — a framework or basic outline of law or rule
- skeleton map — a map showing only basic details of a land, place, etc
- slide-action — (of a rifle or shotgun) having a lever that when slid back and forth ejects the empty case and cocks and reloads the piece.
- slot machine — a gambling machine operated by inserting coins into a slot and pulling a handle that activates a set of spinning symbols on wheels, the final alignment of which determines the payoff that is released into a receptacle at the bottom.
- slumpflation — a situation in which economic depression is combined with increasing inflation
- smooth snake — any of several slender nonvenomous colubrid snakes of the European genus Coronella, esp C. austriaca, having very smooth scales and a reddish-brown coloration
- snaggletooth — a tooth growing out beyond or apart from others.
- snake doctor — South Midland and Southern U.S. a dragonfly.
- snapshotting — an informal photograph, especially one taken quickly by a handheld camera.
- snatch block — a fairlead having the form of a block that can be opened to receive the bight of a rope at any point along its length.
- sneak out of — leave secretly
- snotty-faced — having visible nasal mucus on the face
- snow crystal — a crystal of ice sufficiently heavy to fall from the atmosphere.
- snowshoe cat — a breed of cat with soft short hair, blue eyes, an inverted V-shaped marking on the face, and white feet
- soft chancre — chancroid.
- soft landing — space vehicle
- solenogaster — any of a group of wormlike mollusks, class Solenogastres (formerly Aplacophora), inhabiting deep ocean layers and having fine limy spicules on the covering mantle.
- solicitation — the act of soliciting.
- solitariness — alone; without companions; unattended: a solitary passer-by.
- solonization — the formation of solonetzic soil
- somaticizing — to convert (anxiety) into physical symptoms.
- somatization — to convert (anxiety) into physical symptoms.
- somatostatin — a polypeptide hormone, produced in the brain and pancreas, that inhibits secretion of somatotropin from the hypothalamus and inhibits insulin production by the pancreas.
- somatotensic — (of certain plants that are eaten as food) restoring equilibrium
- somatotropin — a hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland, that stimulates growth in humans.
- somnambulant — to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.
- somnambulate — to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.
- somnambulist — sleepwalking.
- somnifacient — causing or inducing sleep.
- sonata-rondo — a musical form combining characteristics of both the sonata form and the rondo.
- sooner state — Oklahoma (used as a nickname).
- sorbefacient — inducing absorption
- sorting yard — sorting tracks.
- south island — the largest island of New Zealand. 58,093 sq. mi. (150,460 sq. km).
- south korean — a country in E Asia: formed 1948 after the division of the former country of Korea at 38° N. 36,600 sq. mi. (94,795 sq. km). Capital: Seoul. Compare Korea.
- south orange — a city in NE New Jersey.
- south-facing — facing towards the south
- southeastern — from the south east
- 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.
- spatter cone — a low, steep-sided volcanic cone built up of droplets or blobs of lava erupted from a fissure or vent.
- speciational — relating to speciation
- speedboating — the act, practice, or sport of traveling in a speedboat.
- spermatozoon — one of the minute, usually actively motile gametes in semen, which serve to fertilize the ovum; a mature male reproductive cell.
- sphacelation — the process of mortification
- spiflication — rough treatment
- splenization — the transformation of something into a spleenlike tissue