12-letter words containing d, e, a, s, o, r
- scraperboard — scratchboard.
- screw around — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
- scrieveboard — the drawing board of a shipbuilder
- scrive board — a floorlike construction on which the lines of a vessel can be drawn or scribed at full size.
- search order — an injunction allowing a person to enter the premises of another to search for and take copies of evidence required for a court case, used esp in cases of infringement of copyright
- second grade — school year: age 7-8
- semi-dormant — lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid: The lecturer's sudden shout woke the dormant audience.
- serial bonds — Serial bonds are bonds that are issued at the same time but have staggered maturity dates.
- serra do mar — a mountain range on the SE coast of Brazil. Highest point, 7420 feet (2262 meters).
- service road — frontage road.
- several-fold — comprising several parts or members.
- shadow price — the calculated price of a good or service for which no market price exists
- shared logic — the sharing of a central processing unit and associated software among several terminals
- shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
- shop steward — commerce: union rep
- short-haired — having short hair
- short-handed — not having the usual or necessary number of workers, helpers, etc.
- shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
- shoulder bag — a handbag with shoulder strap attached.
- shoulder pad — clothing: insert in shoulder
- shoulder-bag — A shoulder-bag is a bag that has a long strap so that it can be carried on a person's shoulder.
- shovel-ready — of or relating to a construction project that is ready to start immediately
- shuffleboard — a game in which standing players shove or push wooden or plastic disks with a long cue toward numbered scoring sections marked on a floor or deck.
- siderography — the art or technique of engraving on steel.
- six-year-old — being six years in age
- skateboarder — person who rides skateboard
- 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.
- sleeve board — a small-scale ironing board for pressing sleeves, especially a narrow board that fits inside a coat sleeve.
- 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)
- snake doctor — South Midland and Southern U.S. a dragonfly.
- 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.
- sober-headed — characterized by clear, logical thinking; not fanciful or capricious.
- social order — structure or hierarchy of society
- soda cracker — a thin, crisp cracker or wafer prepared from a yeast dough that has been neutralized by baking soda.
- soft-hearted — very sympathetic or responsive; generous in spirit: a soft-hearted judge.
- soldier crab — a small blue Australian estuarine crab of the Mictyris genus usually found in large numbers
- 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.
- spermatocide — spermicide.
- spermatozoid — a motile male gamete produced in an antheridium.
- spit-roasted — cooked on a spit
- sponged ware — spongeware.
- stakeholders — the holder of the stakes of a wager.
- star-crossed — thwarted or opposed by the stars; ill-fated: star-crossed lovers.
- stonyhearted — unfeeling; pitiless; cruel
- storm-lashed — badly affected by storms
- stouthearted — brave and resolute; dauntless.
- 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.
- subeditorial — of or relating to a subeditor, the work of a subeditor or a subeditorship