12-letter words containing e, n, s, o, r
- snow leopard — a long-haired, leopardlike feline, Panthera (Uncia) uncia, of mountain ranges of central Asia, having a relatively small head and a thick, creamy-gray coat with rosette spots: an endangered species.
- snow scooter — a small open powered vehicle mounted on skis for travelling on snow
- snow thrower — snow blower.
- snow-covered — Snow-covered places and things are covered over with snow.
- snowed under — If you say that you are snowed under, you are emphasizing that you have a lot of work or other things to deal with.
- snowy plover — a small plover, Charadrius alexandrinus, mainly of the U.S. and Mexico, having a white breast and sand-colored upper parts.
- sober-minded — rational; sensible.
- sociocentric — oriented toward or focused on one's own social group.
- soft chancre — chancroid.
- soft-centred — (of a chocolate or boiled sweet) having a centre consisting of cream, jelly, etc
- solar energy — energy derived from the sun in the form of solar radiation.
- solenogaster — any of a group of wormlike mollusks, class Solenogastres (formerly Aplacophora), inhabiting deep ocean layers and having fine limy spicules on the covering mantle.
- solitariness — alone; without companions; unattended: a solitary passer-by.
- somers point — a town in SE New Jersey.
- sonorousness — giving out or capable of giving out a sound, especially a deep, resonant sound, as a thing or place: a sonorous cavern.
- sooner state — Oklahoma (used as a nickname).
- soprano clef — a sign locating middle C on the bottom line of the staff.
- sorbefacient — inducing absorption
- 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
- sound camera — a motion-picture camera that is capable of photographing silently at the normal speed of 24 fps and operating in synchronization with separate audio recording equipment.
- south korean — a country in E Asia: formed 1948 after the division of the former country of Korea at 38° N. 36,600 sq. mi. (94,795 sq. km). Capital: Seoul. Compare Korea.
- south orange — a city in NE New Jersey.
- southeastern — from the south east
- southernmost — farthest south.
- southernness — the state of being southern
- southernwood — a woody-stemmed wormwood, Artemisia abrotanum, of southern Europe, having aromatic, finely dissected leaves.
- southwestern — the point or direction midway between south and west. Abbreviation: SW.
- spatter cone — a low, steep-sided volcanic cone built up of droplets or blobs of lava erupted from a fissure or vent.
- speakerphone — a telephone or telephone attachment equipped with both loudspeaker and microphone, thus permitting the instrument to be used without being held.
- specksioneer — a whaler
- speech organ — any part of the body, as the tongue, velum, diaphragm, or lungs, that participates, actively or passively, voluntarily or involuntarily, in the production of the sounds of speech.
- spermagonium — Botany, Mycology. spermogonium.
- spermatozoon — one of the minute, usually actively motile gametes in semen, which serve to fertilize the ovum; a mature male reproductive cell.
- spermogonium — one of the cup-shaped or flask-shaped receptacles in which the spermatia of certain fungi and red algae are produced.
- sphenography — the art of writing in cuneiform characters.
- spinsterhood — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
- spokesperson — a person who speaks for another or for a group.
- sponged ware — spongeware.
- sporogenesis — the production of spores; sporogony.
- sportsperson — athlete
- square piano — a piano with a rectangular, horizontal body.
- stanniferous — containing tin; tin-bearing
- star network — a circuit with three or more branches all of which have one common terminal.
- state prison — a prison maintained by a state for the confinement of felons.
- statesperson — a statesman or stateswoman, a respected senior politician
- stationeries — writing paper.
- stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
- steganograph — a piece of coded writing; cipher
- stegosaurian — having the characteristics of a stegosaur
- 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.