12-letter words containing d, e, n, s
- self-driving — (of a machine) operating without the guidance of a human.
- self-evident — evident in itself without proof or demonstration; axiomatic.
- self-feeding — automatically supplying itself with what is needed, as a machine
- self-honored — honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions: a man of honor.
- self-induced — induced by oneself or itself.
- self-loading — noting or pertaining to an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
- self-reading — the action or practice of a person who reads.
- self-winding — kept wound or wound periodically by a mechanism, as an electric motor or a system of weighted levers, so that winding by hand is not necessary.
- semi-dormant — lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid: The lecturer's sudden shout woke the dormant audience.
- semi-invalid — a person who is partially disabled or somewhat infirm
- semi-nomadic — of, relating to, or characteristic of nomads.
- semicylinder — half of a cylinder divided lengthwise.
- semidarkness — partial darkness.
- semideponent — (of a Latin verb) active in meaning but passive in form in the perfect tense
- semidominant — producing an intermediate, heterozygous phenotype
- semifinished — partially or almost finished.
- send out for — If you send out for food, for example pizzas or sandwiches, you phone and ask for it to be delivered to you.
- send packing — to dismiss peremptorily
- sendai virus — a paramyxovirus that tends to cause cell fusion: in inactive form, used in biological research to produce cells with multiple nuclei of different genetic constitutions.
- sense strand — that strand of a double-stranded DNA molecule which serves as the template from which RNA, esp. messenger RNA, is transcribed
- serendipiter — an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.
- serial bonds — Serial bonds are bonds that are issued at the same time but have staggered maturity dates.
- series-wound — noting a commutator motor in which the field circuit and armature circuit are connected in series.
- serving dish — a dish in which food is presented or served, esp before being shared into individual portions
- set designer — theatre, cinema: creator of scenery
- severodvinsk — a city in the N Russian Federation in Europe, on Dvina Gulf, E of Archangel.
- sewn binding — a style of binding where the backs of the gathered sections are sewn together before being inserted into a cover
- sex offender — a person who has been found guilty of one or more sex crimes.
- sexdecillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 51 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 96 zeros.
- shadow dance — a dance in which shadows of the dancers are cast on a screen.
- shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
- sheepherding — the act of herding or tending sheep
- shepherdling — a young or little shepherd
- sherardizing — to coat (steel) with a thin cladding of zinc by heating in a mixture of sand and powdered zinc.
- shevardnadze — Eduard A [ed-werd;; Russian ed-wahrt] /ˈɛd wərd;; Russian ɛdˈwɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1928–2014, Soviet foreign minister 1985–91; president of his native Georgian Republic 1995–2003.
- shore dinner — a meal consisting chiefly of seafood.
- short-handed — not having the usual or necessary number of workers, helpers, etc.
- short-winded — short of breath; liable to difficulty in breathing.
- shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
- shoshone dam — a dam on the Shoshone River. 328 feet (100 meters) high.
- shovel-nosed — having the head, snout, or beak broad and flat like the blade of a shovel.
- sialadenitis — inflammation of one or more of the salivary glands.
- side against — one of the surfaces forming the outside of or bounding a thing, or one of the lines bounding a geometric figure.
- sidestepping — the act of ascending or descending by facing sideways and lifting each ski alternately
- silver mound — a perennial Japanese herb, Artemisia schmidtiana, having silver-green leaves forming a moundlike shape.
- simpleminded — free of deceit or guile; artless or unsophisticated.
- single blind — of or relating to an experiment or clinical trial in which the researchers but not the subjects know which subjects are receiving the active medication or treatment and which are not: a technique for eliminating subjective bias, as the placebo effect, from the test results.
- single modal — modal (def 3).
- single-blind — of or relating to an experiment or clinical trial in which the researchers but not the subjects know which subjects are receiving the active medication or treatment and which are not: a technique for eliminating subjective bias, as the placebo effect, from the test results.
- single-digit — of or denoting a percentage smaller than ten, especially with reference to rates below that level: single-digit rates of inflation.