12-letter words containing a, t, o, l, s, e
- stanley pool — a lake between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Congo-Brazzaville, formed by a widening of the River Congo. Area: 829 sq km (320 sq miles)
- state flower — a flower chosen as an official symbol of a U.S. state.
- state police — a police force under state authority rather than under the authority of a city or county in the state.
- state school — A state school is a school that is controlled and funded by the government or a local authority, and which children can attend without having to pay.
- stately home — a country mansion, usually of architectural interest and often open to the public.
- steam boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
- steam shovel — a machine for digging or excavating, operated by its own engine and boiler.
- 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.
- steam-shovel — a machine for digging or excavating, operated by its own engine and boiler.
- 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.
- stipulaceous — of, relating to, having, resembling, or living on stipules
- stock saddle — Western saddle.
- stonewalling — the act of stalling, evading, or filibustering, especially to avoid revealing politically embarrassing information.
- 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-lashed — badly affected by storms
- stove enamel — a type of enamel made heatproof by treatment in a stove
- stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
- straw yellow — a pale yellow; straw color.
- stromatolite — a laminated calcareous fossil structure built by marine algae and having a rounded or columnar form.
- strophiolate — having a strophiole
- student loan — A student loan is a government loan that is available to students at a college or university in order to help them pay their expenses.
- subeditorial — of or relating to a subeditor, the work of a subeditor or a subeditorship
- subjectional — the act of subjecting.
- sublineation — an underlining
- 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.
- surmountable — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
- sweet almond — the nutlike kernel of the fruit of either of two trees, Prunus dulcis (sweet almond) or P. dulcis amara (bitter almond) which grow in warm temperate regions.
- tail section — the back or rear section of an aeroplane
- take counsel — receive advice
- talent scout — a person whose business it is to recognize and recruit persons of marked aptitude for a certain field or occupation, especially in entertainment or sports.
- 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
- tessellation — the art or practice of tessellating.
- the absolute — ultimate reality regarded as uncaused, unmodified, unified and complete, timeless, etc.
- the lothians — three historic counties of SE central Scotland (now council areas): East Lothian, West Lothian, and Midlothian (including Edinburgh)
- the lowlands — a low generally flat region of central Scotland, around the Forth and Clyde valleys, separating the Southern Uplands from the Highlands
- the old days — the past
- the populars — cheap newspapers with mass circulation; the popular press
- the saltsjön — an inlet of the Baltic Sea in Sweden
- the shallows — a shallow place in a body of water
- theologaster — a person who pretends to be a theologian; a shallow or quack theologian
- thermostable — capable of being subjected to a moderate degree of heat without loss of characteristic properties, as certain toxins and enzymes (opposed to thermolabile).