12-letter words containing d, e, s, a
- square-jawed — having a regular, approximately rectangular jaw
- squared away — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
- squared ring — boxing ring.
- stacked heel — a shoe heel constructed from several layers of material.
- staddlestone — (formerly) one of several supports for a hayrick, consisting of a truncated conical stone surmounted by a flat circular stone
- stage-driver — the driver of a stagecoach.
- stagger head — dropline.
- stakeholders — the holder of the stakes of a wager.
- stamp dealer — someone who buys and sells postage stamps (to collectors)
- 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
- stapedectomy — a microsurgical procedure to relieve deafness by replacing the stapes of the ear with a prosthetic device.
- star-crossed — thwarted or opposed by the stars; ill-fated: star-crossed lovers.
- star-studded — lighted by or full of stars; bright: a star-studded night.
- starchedness — the condition or quality of being starched
- stated clerk — an administrative official in the Presbyterian Church and certain other Protestant churches
- steady state — physics: condition which does not change over time
- steady-going — steadfast; faithful; unchanging: steady-going service to the cause of justice.
- steam-driven — powered by steam
- steam-heated — heated by steam.
- stearic acid — a colorless, waxlike, sparingly water-soluble, odorless solid, C 1 8 H 3 6 O 2 , the most common fatty acid, occurring as the glyceride in tallow and other animal fats and in some animal oils: used chiefly in the manufacture of soaps, stearates, candles, cosmetics, and in medicine in suppositories and pill coatings.
- steel-plated — covered with steel
- 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.
- stepdaughter — a daughter of one's husband or wife by a previous marriage.
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- stock saddle — Western saddle.
- 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
- storm-lashed — badly affected by storms
- stouthearted — brave and resolute; dauntless.
- straddleback — astride, on horseback
- straightbred — (of animals) purebred; having parents of the same breed
- straightedge — a bar or strip of wood, plastic, or metal having at least one long edge of sufficiently reliable straightness for use in drawing or testing straight lines, plane surfaces, etc.
- strait-laced — excessively strict in conduct or morality; puritanical; prudish: strait-laced censors.
- 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
- striped bass — an important American game fish, Morone saxatilis, having blackish stripes along each side.
- 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
- sub-additive — something that is added, as one substance to another, to alter or improve the general quality or to counteract undesirable properties: an additive that thins paint.
- subdeaconate — subdiaconate.
- subdebutante — a young woman who has not yet made her debut into society.