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12-letter words containing d, a, n, s, e

  • sleep around — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
  • 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.
  • sliding seat — a rower's seat that rides on wheels in metal tracks fastened to the boat's frame, allowing the seat to slide back and forth, thereby tapping the rower's leg strength to maximize the stroke.
  • sloped roman — a roman (vertical) typeface, usually sans serif, i.e. without the small, decorative, terminal strokes with which some typefaces are designed. The typeface is made to slope (usually to the right), but not generally to the same degree as a true italic typeface
  • small wonder — (I am) hardly surprised (that)
  • small-minded — selfish, petty, or narrow-minded.
  • snail darter — a tan, striped, snail-eating perch, Percina tanasi, 3 inches (7.5 cm) long, occurring only in the Tennessee River: a threatened species.
  • snake doctor — South Midland and Southern U.S. a dragonfly.
  • snake feeder — a dragonfly.
  • snake's head — checkered lily.
  • snake's-head — checkered lily.
  • snake-hipped — having thin, sinuous hips.
  • snotty-faced — having visible nasal mucus on the face
  • snow leopard — a long-haired, leopardlike feline, Panthera (Uncia) uncia, of mountain ranges of central Asia, having a relatively small head and a thick, creamy-gray coat with rosette spots: an endangered species.
  • sound camera — a motion-picture camera that is capable of photographing silently at the normal speed of 24 fps and operating in synchronization with separate audio recording equipment.
  • sound change — any phonetic or phonological change in spoken language, for example the replacement of one speech sound with another, or the loss of a particular sound
  • sounion head — the tip of the Attica peninsula, E central Greece: site of ancient temple ruins.
  • spade guinea — a guinea decorated with a spade-shaped shield, coined during the reign of George III
  • spearheading — the sharp-pointed head that forms the piercing end of a spear.
  • speed dating — an organized social event in which participants have one-on-one conversations typically limited to less than ten minutes, for the purpose of meeting people they would like to date.
  • speedballing — the practice of taking cocaine and heroin together intravenously
  • speedboating — the act, practice, or sport of traveling in a speedboat.
  • speedskating — a form of ice skating in which contestants race against each other or the clock over various distances
  • spider plant — Also called ribbon plant. a plant, Chlorophytum comosum, of the lily family, native to southern Africa, that has long, narrow leaves and clusters of white flowers and is widely cultivated as a houseplant.
  • sponged ware — spongeware.
  • square dance — hoedown, barn dance
  • square-dance — to perform or participate in a square dance.
  • squared ring — boxing ring.
  • staddlestone — (formerly) one of several supports for a hayrick, consisting of a truncated conical stone surmounted by a flat circular stone
  • stand surety — to act as a surety
  • standardbred — one of an American breed of trotting and pacing horses used chiefly for harness racing.
  • standardized — to bring to or make of an established standard size, weight, quality, strength, or the like: to standardize manufactured parts.
  • standardless — having no standard or standards
  • starchedness — the condition or quality of being starched
  • steady-going — steadfast; faithful; unchanging: steady-going service to the cause of justice.
  • steam-driven — powered by steam
  • stefan dušan — 1308–55, king of Serbia (1331–55), who conquered Albania (1343) and large parts of the Byzantine empire, into which he introduced legal and administrative reforms
  • stellar wind — the radial outflow of ionized gas from a star.
  • stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
  • stone-washed — Stone-washed jeans are jeans which have been specially washed with small pieces of stone so that when you buy them they are fairly pale and soft.
  • stonyhearted — unfeeling; pitiless; cruel
  • strandedness — composed of a specified number or kind of strands (usually used in combination): a five-stranded rope.
  • stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
  • stride piano — a style of jazz piano playing in which the right hand plays the melody while the left hand plays a single bass note or octave on the strong beat and a chord on the weak beat, developed in Harlem during the 1920s, partly from ragtime piano playing.
  • strike hands — to show agreement by clasping hands
  • stringhalted — afflicted with stringhalt
  • student card — a card verifying somebody's identity as a university student and entitling them to services, discounts, etc
  • student lamp — a table lamp whose light source can be adjusted in height.
  • 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.
  • stun grenade — a nonlethal grenade which is used to disturb the senses of enemies by its loud noise and its bright light
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