12-letter words containing i, s, n, a, d
- sir sandford — Mount, a mountain in SE British Columbia, Canada, in the Selkirk Mountains. 11,590 feet (3533 meters).
- skin disease — condition affecting the skin
- slab dashing — the act or process of covering an exterior wall with roughcast.
- slam dancing — the act of hurling oneself repeatedly into or through a crowd at a rock-music concert
- slap dashing — slab dashing.
- 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.
- slimming aid — food or food supplements that can help you lose weight
- small-minded — selfish, petty, or narrow-minded.
- smallholding — a piece of land rented or sold to a farmer by county authorities for purposes of cultivation.
- smith island — a group of islands in S Maryland and N Virginia, in Chesapeake Bay.
- 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.
- snake-hipped — having thin, sinuous hips.
- sniff around — dog: try to pick up scent
- snowboarding — a board for gliding on snow, resembling a wide ski, to which both feet are secured and that one rides in an upright position.
- soft landing — space vehicle
- sorting yard — sorting tracks.
- sounion head — the tip of the Attica peninsula, E central Greece: site of ancient temple ruins.
- south island — the largest island of New Zealand. 58,093 sq. mi. (150,460 sq. km).
- spade guinea — a guinea decorated with a spade-shaped shield, coined during the reign of George III
- span loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
- spearheading — the sharp-pointed head that forms the piercing end of a spear.
- 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.
- speedballing — the practice of taking cocaine and heroin together intravenously
- 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
- 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.
- spina bifida — a congenital neural tube defect in which part of the meninges or spinal cord protrudes through the spinal column, often resulting in neurological impairment.
- spinal fluid — cerebrospinal fluid
- spiny lizard — any of numerous iguanid lizards of the genus Sceloporus, common in North and Central America, usually having keeled scales that may end in a sharp point.
- spiral-bound — having a spiral binding.
- spud-bashing — the task of peeling potatoes, given as a punishment
- squared ring — boxing ring.
- stand in for — to substitute for
- stand-offish — If you say that someone is stand-offish, you mean that they behave in a formal and rather unfriendly way.
- standardized — to bring to or make of an established standard size, weight, quality, strength, or the like: to standardize manufactured parts.
- standing cup — a tall decorative cup of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, having a raised cover.
- standpattism — belief in or the practice of resisting or refusing to accept change, especially in politics.
- stannic acid — any of the series of acids usually occurring as amorphous powders and varying in composition from H 2 SnO 3 (alpha-stannic acid) to H 4 SnO 4 .
- station days — days on which ceremonies are held in station churches
- steady-going — steadfast; faithful; unchanging: steady-going service to the cause of justice.
- steam-driven — powered by steam
- stellar wind — the radial outflow of ionized gas from a star.
- stick around — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- 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
- studdingsail — a light sail, sometimes set outboard of either of the leeches of a square sail and extended by booms.
- subabdominal — below or beneath the abdomen