12-letter words containing d, e, s, r, t, a
- resyndicated — a group of individuals or organizations combined or making a joint effort to undertake some specific duty or carry out specific transactions or negotiations: The local furniture store is individually owned, but is part of a buying syndicate.
- rocket salad — rocket2 (def 2).
- rocket-salad — any of various plants belonging to the genus Hesperis, of the mustard family, and related genera. Compare dame's rocket.
- rolled roast — meat that has had the bones removed and been rolled and tied for roasting.
- rutlandshire — a former county, now part of Leicestershire, in central England.
- sacred heart — the physical heart of Jesus, to which special devotion is offered as a symbol of His love and redemptive sacrifice.
- sacred lotus — Indian lotus.
- salad burnet — a plant, Poterium sanguisorba, of the rose family, native to Eurasia, having rounded heads of small, greenish flowers in short spikes and edible leaves.
- sales trader — a person employed by a market maker, or his firm, to find clients
- sand cricket — Jerusalem cricket.
- sandbox tree — a tropical American tree, Hura crepitans, of the spurge family, bearing a furrowed, roundish fruit about the size of an orange that when ripe and dry bursts with a sharp report and scatters the seeds.
- say the word — If someone says the word, they give their approval as a sign that something should start to happen.
- scared stiff — terrified
- scout leader — the leader of a troop of Scouts
- screw thread — Also called worm. the helical ridge of a screw.
- self-created — to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.
- self-starved — to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
- self-treated — to act or behave toward (a person) in some specified way: to treat someone with respect.
- semi-dormant — lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid: The lecturer's sudden shout woke the dormant audience.
- semidiameter — half of a diameter; radius.
- sense strand — that strand of a double-stranded DNA molecule which serves as the template from which RNA, esp. messenger RNA, is transcribed
- sequestrated — Law. to sequester (property). to confiscate.
- sharp-witted — having or showing mental acuity; intellectually discerning; acute.
- shirt-tailed — (of a garment) having a shirt-tail
- 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.
- sixth-grader — a pupil in their sixth US school year after kindergarten, who is usually around 11 or 12 years old
- skateboarder — person who rides skateboard
- slave trader — sb who traffics in people
- slide guitar — bottleneck (def 3).
- 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.
- soft-hearted — very sympathetic or responsive; generous in spirit: a soft-hearted judge.
- spatter dash — roughcast (def 1).
- spatter-dash — Also called spatter dash. an exterior wall finish composed of mortar and fine pebbles mixed together and dashed against the wall. Compare pebble dash.
- spermaticide — spermicide.
- spermatocide — spermicide.
- spermatozoid — a motile male gamete produced in an antheridium.
- 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.
- spit-roasted — cooked on a spit
- 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