12-letter words containing d, i, s, t, r, e
- sidesplitter — something that is uproariously funny, as a joke or a situation.
- sixth-grader — a pupil in their sixth US school year after kindergarten, who is usually around 11 or 12 years old
- 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).
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- 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
- studded tire — a boss, knob, nailhead, or other protuberance projecting from a surface or part, especially as an ornament.
- study period — a period of time or lesson used for studying
- subeditorial — of or relating to a subeditor, the work of a subeditor or a subeditorship
- subintroduce — to introduce subtly
- subordinated — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- superevident — extremely or very evident
- tardenoisian — of or referring to a Mesolithic culture characterized by small flint instruments
- tear-stained — marked or wet with tears: a tear-stained letter.
- 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)
- the nearside — the side of a vehicle normally nearer the kerb (in Britain, the left side)
- third estate — the third of the three estates or political orders: the commons in France or England. Compare estate (def 5).
- third person — the grammatical person used by the speaker of an utterance in referring to anyone or anything other than the speaker or the one (third person singular) or ones (third person plural) being addressed.
- third sector — the segment of a nation's economy that is made up of neither public nor business concerns, as nonprofit health or educational institutions.
- third stream — a style of music that uses features of both jazz and classical music in an attempt to develop a new and distinctive musical idiom.