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12-letter words containing d, i, s, t, e

  • self-studies — the study of something by oneself, as through books, records, etc., without direct supervision or attendance in a class: She learned to read German by self-study.
  • semi-dormant — lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid: The lecturer's sudden shout woke the dormant audience.
  • semiattached — partially attached; semidetached.
  • semideponent — (of a Latin verb) active in meaning but passive in form in the perfect tense
  • semidetached — partly detached.
  • semidiameter — half of a diameter; radius.
  • semidominant — producing an intermediate, heterozygous phenotype
  • serendipiter — an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.
  • set designer — theatre, cinema: creator of scenery
  • sharp-witted — having or showing mental acuity; intellectually discerning; acute.
  • shield match — a cricket match for the Sheffield Shield
  • shirt-tailed — (of a garment) having a shirt-tail
  • shirtsleeved — not wearing a jacket or coat
  • short-haired — having short hair
  • short-winded — short of breath; liable to difficulty in breathing.
  • shortsighted — unable to see far; nearsighted; myopic.
  • 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.
  • side circuit — a circuit derived from two suitably arranged pairs of wires, each pair being a circuit (side circuit) and also acting as one half of an additional derived circuit, the entire system providing the capabilities of three circuits while requiring wires for only two.
  • sidesplitter — something that is uproariously funny, as a joke or a situation.
  • sidestepping — the act of ascending or descending by facing sideways and lifting each ski alternately
  • single-digit — of or denoting a percentage smaller than ten, especially with reference to rates below that level: single-digit rates of inflation.
  • sixth-grader — a pupil in their sixth US school year after kindergarten, who is usually around 11 or 12 years old
  • sixty-second — next after the sixty-first; being the ordinal number for 62.
  • skutterudite — a mineral, chiefly cobalt and nickel arsenide, (Co,Ni)As 3 , with some iron, occurring in the form of gray cubic crystals, usually in masses: a source of cobalt and nickel.
  • slide guitar — bottleneck (def 3).
  • slide-action — (of a rifle or shotgun) having a lever that when slid back and forth ejects the empty case and cocks and reloads the piece.
  • sliding seat — a rower's seat that rides on wheels in metal tracks fastened to the boat's frame, allowing the seat to slide back and forth, thereby tapping the rower's leg strength to maximize the stroke.
  • 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.
  • solid rocket — any of various rockets using solid fuel
  • sorting code — a sequence of numbers printed on a cheque or embossed on a bank or building-society card that identifies the branch holding the account
  • south euclid — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
  • speed dating — an organized social event in which participants have one-on-one conversations typically limited to less than ten minutes, for the purpose of meeting people they would like to date.
  • speedboating — the act, practice, or sport of traveling in a speedboat.
  • speedskating — a form of ice skating in which contestants race against each other or the clock over various distances
  • speedwriting — a system of shorthand that is based on the sound of words and utilizes letters of the alphabet rather than symbols.
  • 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.
  • spiderhunter — any of several sunbirds of the genus Arachnothera, of southern Asia and the East Indies, having dull-colored plumage and a long bill.
  • spindle tree — any of various shrubs or trees of the genus Euonymus, esp E. europaeus, of Europe and W Asia, typically having red fruits and yielding a hard wood formerly used in making spindles: family Celastraceae
  • spinsterhood — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
  • spirit guide — type of mystical guardian
  • spiritedness — having or showing mettle, courage, vigor, liveliness, etc.: a spirited defense of poetry.
  • spit-roasted — cooked on a spit
  • split second — a fraction of a second.
  • spot welding — fusing metal
  • spotted dick — a steamed or boiled suet pudding containing dried fruit
  • spotted tail — (Sinte-galeshka) 1833?–81, Brulé Sioux leader.
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