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12-letter words containing e, n, s, o, r

  • 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.
  • sanguiferous — conveying blood, as a blood vessel.
  • sarcoadenoma — adenosarcoma.
  • sarrusophone — a metal double-reed wind instrument with a conical bore, related to the oboe and used especially in military bands.
  • satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • scatteration — the act of scattering.
  • scenographic — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
  • schizophrene — a person with schizophrenia or one who tends toward schizophrenia
  • schoenheimer — Rudolf [roo-dolf;; German roo-dawlf] /ˈru dɒlf;; German ˈru dɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1898–1941, U.S. biochemist, born in Germany.
  • schooner rig — a rig in which the mainmast is taller than the foremast
  • schopenhauer — Arthur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1788–1860, German philosopher.
  • scolopendrid — any myriapod of the order Scolopendrida, including many large, poisonous centipedes.
  • scorekeeping — an official of a sports contest who keeps record of the score.
  • screen actor — a film actor
  • screw around — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
  • sea crossing — a journey by sea from one coast to another
  • sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
  • sea scorpion — scorpionfish.
  • season creep — the gradual changing in the length of the seasons, as demonstrated by earlier flowering of plants, etc, thought by many to be caused by climate change
  • second birth — spiritual rebirth.
  • second floor — the floor or story above the ground floor.
  • second grade — school year: age 7-8
  • second reich — the German Empire 1871–1919.
  • second world — the world's industrialized nations other than the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.
  • second-homer — a person who owns another house in addition to their main home, often in an area where they are not native and used as a holiday home
  • second-story — of or located on the second story or floor.
  • section mark — section (def 16).
  • seleniferous — containing or yielding selenium.
  • selenography — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
  • self-concern — to relate to; be connected with; be of interest or importance to; affect: The water shortage concerns us all.
  • self-control — control or restraint of oneself or one's actions, feelings, etc.
  • self-honored — honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions: a man of honor.
  • self-proving — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
  • self-torment — an act or instance of tormenting oneself, as with worry or guilt.
  • semi-dormant — lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid: The lecturer's sudden shout woke the dormant audience.
  • semi-organic — noting or pertaining to a class of chemical compounds that formerly comprised only those existing in or derived from plants or animals, but that now includes all other compounds of carbon.
  • seminiferous — Anatomy. conveying or containing semen.
  • seminivorous — feeding on seeds: seminivorous birds.
  • senarmontite — a mineral, antimony trioxide, Sb 2 O 3 , occurring in pearl-colored isometric octahedrons: a dimorph of valentinite.
  • send out for — If you send out for food, for example pizzas or sandwiches, you phone and ask for it to be delivered to you.
  • senior clerk — a clerk who is in a senior position and performs office tasks under minimal supervision
  • sensitometer — an instrument for testing the sensitivity of various types of film, consisting of an apparatus for exposing successive parts of the film to a light of standard intensity at successively increasing lengths of exposure.
  • sensitometry — the science of determining the sensitivity of photographic materials.
  • sensorimotor — Psychology. of or relating to motor activity caused by sensory stimuli. Compare ideomotor.
  • sensory root — a nerve fiber bundle that emerges from either side of the spinal cord and joins with a complementary bundle to form each spinal nerve in the series of spinal nerves: the root at the rear of the spinal cord (dorsal root or sensory root) conveys sensations to the central nervous system, and the root at the front (ventral root or motor root) conveys impulses to the muscles.
  • septentrions — the seven stars of the Plough
  • serial bonds — Serial bonds are bonds that are issued at the same time but have staggered maturity dates.
  • series-wound — noting a commutator motor in which the field circuit and armature circuit are connected in series.
  • seronegative — showing no significant level of serum antibodies, or other immunologic marker in the serum, that would indicate previous exposure to the infectious agent being tested.
  • seropurulent — composed of or containing both serum and pus
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