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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.
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