12-letter words containing i, s, o, t, n, e
- rostenkowski — Dan(iel) 1928–2010, U.S. politician: congressman 1959–94.
- royal tennis — court tennis.
- saddle joint — (on a sill, coping, or the like) a vertical joint raised above the level of the washes on each side.
- saddle point — a point at which a function of two variables has partial derivatives equal to zero but at which the function has neither a maximum nor a minimum value.
- saint jerome — Saint (Eusebius Hieronymus) a.d. c340–420, Christian ascetic and Biblical scholar: chief preparer of the Vulgate version of the Bible.
- saint joseph — a city in NW Missouri, on the Missouri River.
- saint-tropez — a town in SE France, on the French Riviera: beach resort.
- sample point — a possible result of an experiment, represented as a point.
- sanctionable — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- sanguinolent — of or relating to blood.
- satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- scapegoating — the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself.
- scatteration — the act of scattering.
- scitamineous — of or relating to the Scitimanae order of plants, which includes the ginger and banana plants
- scutellation — a scutellate state or formation; a scaly covering, as on a bird's foot.
- secessionist — a person who secedes, advocates secession, or claims secession as a constitutional right.
- seclusionist — a person who prefers to be alone or secluded
- second birth — spiritual rebirth.
- second sight — the faculty of seeing future events; clairvoyance.
- section boss — the boss of a section gang.
- section gang — a group of workers who take care of a section of railroad track.
- section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
- section mark — section (def 16).
- sectionalism — excessive regard for sectional or local interests; regional or local spirit, prejudice, etc.
- sectionalize — to render sectional.
- segmentation — division into segments.
- seismonastic — of or relating to seismonasty
- selectionist — a person who believes in natural selection
- self-conceit — an excessively favorable opinion of oneself, one's abilities, etc.; vanity.
- self-tuition — the charge or fee for instruction, as at a private school or a college or university: The college will raise its tuition again next year.
- semi-dormant — lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid: The lecturer's sudden shout woke the dormant audience.
- semi-fiction — the class of literature comprising works of imaginative narration, especially in prose form.
- semi-monthly — made, occurring, done, or published twice a month.
- semiautonomy — the quality or state of being semiautonomous.
- semideponent — (of a Latin verb) active in meaning but passive in form in the perfect tense
- semidominant — producing an intermediate, heterozygous phenotype
- semifloating — noting or pertaining to a driving axle of an automobile or the like, the inner end of which is carried by the differential gear and the outer end of which is keyed to a wheel supported by the axle housing.
- semimonastic — somewhat monastic; monastic in certain respects
- senarmontite — a mineral, antimony trioxide, Sb 2 O 3 , occurring in pearl-colored isometric octahedrons: a dimorph of valentinite.
- sensationism — a theory of psychology maintaining that experience consists solely of sensations.
- sensationist — someone who makes use of or creates sensation, esp a writer or actor
- 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.
- septentrions — the seven stars of the Plough
- 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.
- seroreaction — any reaction occurring in serum.
- serotonergic — containing or activated by serotonin.
- serpentiform — shaped like a snake.
- serpentinous — of the nature of serpentine; containing or consisting of serpentine