12-letter words containing a, u, t, o, n, e
- sans-culotte — (in the French Revolution) a revolutionary of the poorer class: originally a term of contempt applied by the aristocrats but later adopted as a popular name by the revolutionaries.
- santalaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Santalaceae, a family of semiparasitic plants of Australia and Malaysia including sandalwood and quandong
- scitamineous — of or relating to the Scitimanae order of plants, which includes the ginger and banana plants
- 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.
- semiautonomy — the quality or state of being semiautonomous.
- sharp tongue — If you say that someone has a sharp tongue, you are critical of the fact that they say things which are unkind though often clever.
- shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
- simultaneous — existing, occurring, or operating at the same time; concurrent: simultaneous movements; simultaneous translation.
- sneak out of — leave secretly
- somnambulate — to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.
- 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.
- southeastern — from the south east
- stanniferous — containing tin; tin-bearing
- stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
- stegosaurian — having the characteristics of a stegosaur
- stenophagous — (of an animal) feeding on a limited variety of foods (opposed to euryphagous).
- sternutation — the act of sneezing.
- sternutatory — Also, sternutative. causing or tending to cause sneezing.
- storage unit — rented space to store items
- 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.
- stupefaction — the state of being stupefied; stupor.
- sub-attorney — a lawyer; attorney-at-law.
- subcutaneous — situated or lying under the skin, as tissue.
- subdeaconate — subdiaconate.
- subdiaconate — the office or dignity of a subdeacon.
- suberization — the impregnation of cell walls with suberin, causing the formation of cork.
- subjectional — the act of subjecting.
- sublineation — an underlining
- subordinated — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- superfrontal — a piece of cloth placed over an altar and frontal and hanging down a few inches over the front of the altar
- superstation — an independent television station whose signal is transmitted by satellite to subscribers on a cable system.
- surmountable — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
- sustentation — maintenance in being or activity; the sustaining of life through vital processes.
- synantherous — with united anthers
- tag question — Also called tag. a short interrogative structure appended to a statement or command, as isn't it in It's raining, isn't it?, are you in You're not going, are you?, or German nicht wahr.
- 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.
- tau neutrino — a hypothetical type of neutrino that would obey a conservation law together with the tau lepton, with the total number of tau leptons and tau neutrinos minus the total number of their antiparticles remaining constant.
- 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
- telharmonium — a musical keyboard instrument operating by alternating currents of electricity which, on impulse from the keyboard, produce music at a distant point via telephone lines.
- temporaneous — lasting a short while
- tenuirostral — pertaining to a group of birds Tenuirostres which have slender bills
- teutonically — of or relating to the ancient Teutons.
- thaumatogeny — the belief that the origin of life was the result of a miracle
- the mountain — an extremist faction during the French Revolution led by Danton and Robespierre
- thread count — thread density of a woven fabric
- titaniferous — containing or yielding titanium.