12-letter words containing d, i, s, t, e
- spotted wilt — a viral disease of plants, characterized by wilting and by brown, sunken spots and streaks on the stems and leaves.
- stage-driver — the driver of a stagecoach.
- standardized — to bring to or make of an established standard size, weight, quality, strength, or the like: to standardize manufactured parts.
- steady-going — steadfast; faithful; unchanging: steady-going service to the cause of justice.
- 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-winding — wound by turning a knob at the stem.
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- stiff-necked — having a stiff neck; having torticollis.
- 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.
- 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.
- street child — Street children are homeless children who live outdoors in a city and live by begging or stealing.
- 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.
- 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
- stud welding — the semiautomatic welding of a stud or similar piece of metal to a flat part, usually by means of an electric arc
- studded tire — a boss, knob, nailhead, or other protuberance projecting from a surface or part, especially as an ornament.
- student file — a file containing information about each student in a school, college, etc, such as demographic information and information about grades, etc
- studiousness — disposed or given to diligent study: a studious boy.
- study period — a period of time or lesson used for studying
- 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.
- subdiaconate — the office or dignity of a subdeacon.
- subduplicate — of the square root of ratios
- subeditorial — of or relating to a subeditor, the work of a subeditor or a subeditorship
- subinfeudate — to grant (lands) by subinfeudation
- subintroduce — to introduce subtly
- subjectified — to make subjective.
- subordinated — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- suet pudding — a pudding made of chopped beef suet and flour, boiled or steamed in a cloth, often with other ingredients, as raisins, spices, etc.
- suicide note — letter left by person ending own life
- suicide pact — an agreement between two or more people to commit suicide together.
- superevident — extremely or very evident
- swift-footed — swift in running.
- synadelphite — an arsenate containing manganese and aluminium
- systematized — to arrange in or according to a system; reduce to a system; make systematic.
- systems disk — a disk used to store computer programs, esp the basic operating programs of a computer
- tardenoisian — of or referring to a Mesolithic culture characterized by small flint instruments
- tear-stained — marked or wet with tears: a tear-stained letter.
- testiculated — like a testicle, esp in shape
- the dingbats — delirium tremens
- the disabled — those who are physically or mentally disabled; the handicapped
- the distance — the most distant or a faraway part of the visible scene or landscape
- the hebrides — a group of over 500 islands off the W coast of Scotland: separated by the North Minch, Little Minch, and the Sea of the Hebrides: the chief islands are Skye, Raasay, Rum, Eigg, Coll, Tiree, Mull, Jura, Colonsay, and Islay (Inner Hebrides), and Lewis with Harris, North Uist, Benbecula, South Uist, and Barra (Outer Hebrides)