12-letter words containing d, e, t, r, s
- spotted deer — axis deer.
- 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
- 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
- steam-driven — powered 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.
- stellar wind — the radial outflow of ionized gas from a star.
- stem-end rot — a disease of fruits characterized by discoloration, shriveling, and decay of the stem and adjacent parts of the fruit and caused by any of several fungi of the genera Diplodia and Phomopsis.
- stepdaughter — a daughter of one's husband or wife by a previous marriage.
- stereo sound — reproduction of sound using two or more separate microphones to feed two or more loudspeakers through separate channels in order to give a spatial effect to the sound
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- stock record — a record kept of the amount, type, etc., of raw materials and supplies on hand, as in a manufacturing plant.
- stockbreeder — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
- stockholders — Also called stockowner. a holder or owner of stock in a corporation.
- stone-ground — (of wheat or other grain) ground between millstones, especially those made of burstone, so as to retain the whole of the grain and preserve nutritional content.
- stonyhearted — unfeeling; pitiless; cruel
- store credit — A store credit is a document offered by a store to a customer who returns an item not eligible for a refund. It can be used to buy other goods at the store.
- storm-lashed — badly affected by storms
- storm-tossed — thrown up and down or side to side by a storm
- 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.
- street child — Street children are homeless children who live outdoors in a city and live by begging or stealing.
- strengthened — to make stronger; give strength to.
- stress-timed — having a rhythm in which stressed syllables tend to occur at regular intervals of time, regardless of the number of intervening unstressed syllables.
- stressed out — afflicted with or incapacitated by stress.
- stressed-out — afflicted with or incapacitated by stress.
- 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
- stringholder — an oblong piece of wood at the lower end of the body of a viol or other stringed instrument to which the strings are attached.
- striped bass — an important American game fish, Morone saxatilis, having blackish stripes along each side.
- striped drum — a North American marine and freshwater sciaenid fish, Equetus pulcher, that utters a drumming sound
- studded tire — a boss, knob, nailhead, or other protuberance projecting from a surface or part, especially as an ornament.
- student card — a card verifying somebody's identity as a university student and entitling them to services, discounts, etc
- study period — a period of time or lesson used for studying
- stun grenade — a nonlethal grenade which is used to disturb the senses of enemies by its loud noise and its bright light