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

  • scrobiculate — furrowed or pitted.
  • scutellation — a scutellate state or formation; a scaly covering, as on a bird's foot.
  • sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
  • 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.
  • sectionalism — excessive regard for sectional or local interests; regional or local spirit, prejudice, etc.
  • sectionalize — to render sectional.
  • self-storage — noting or pertaining to a warehouse or other facility that rents units to people for storing personal possessions.
  • semifloating — noting or pertaining to a driving axle of an automobile or the like, the inner end of which is carried by the differential gear and the outer end of which is keyed to a wheel supported by the axle housing.
  • semitropical — subtropical.
  • shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
  • shoe leather — treated animal skin used for shoes
  • shoot a line — to try to create a false image, as by boasting or exaggerating
  • shore patrol — (often initial capital letters) members of an organization in the U.S. Navy having police duties similar to those performed by military police. Abbreviation: SP.
  • shower stall — an individual compartment or self-contained unit, having a single shower and accommodating one person.
  • signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
  • simultaneous — existing, occurring, or operating at the same time; concurrent: simultaneous movements; simultaneous translation.
  • 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
  • slash pocket — a pocket set into a garment, especially below the waistline, to which easy access is provided by an exterior, vertical or diagonal slit.
  • slaughterous — murderous; destructive.
  • 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.
  • small stores — personal items, such as clothing, sold aboard ship or at a naval base
  • smallclothes — men's close-fitting knee breeches of the 18th and 19th centuries
  • snaggletooth — a tooth growing out beyond or apart from others.
  • soft release — a means of gradually accustoming wild animals to a new environment before releasing them into it
  • softheadedly — in a soft-headed manner
  • solar system — the sun together with all the planets and other bodies that revolve around it.
  • sole legatee — the only person who receives a legacy
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • somatic cell — one of the cells that take part in the formation of the body, becoming differentiated into the various tissues, organs, etc.
  • 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.
  • somnambulate — to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.
  • 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.
  • south hadley — a city in W Massachusetts.
  • south platte — a river flowing NE from central Colorado to the Platte River in W Nebraska. 424 miles (683 km) long.
  • special sort — a character, such as an accented letter, that is not a usual member of any font
  • speciational — relating to speciation
  • spectatorial — a person who looks on or watches; onlooker; observer.
  • spermatocele — a swelling of the testicle
  • sphacelation — the process of mortification
  • spirochaetal — resulting from spirochaetes
  • splenization — the transformation of something into a spleenlike tissue
  • spotted tail — (Sinte-galeshka) 1833?–81, Brulé Sioux leader.
  • staddlestone — (formerly) one of several supports for a hayrick, consisting of a truncated conical stone surmounted by a flat circular stone
  • stakeholders — the holder of the stakes of a wager.
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