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12-letter words containing i, s, o, t, n, e

  • serve notice — to give formal warning or information, as of intentions; announce
  • set function — a function having a collection of sets as domain.
  • share option — A share option is an opportunity for the employees of a company to buy shares at a special price.
  • shoot a line — to try to create a false image, as by boasting or exaggerating
  • short notice — little warning
  • short-winded — short of breath; liable to difficulty in breathing.
  • signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
  • silhouetting — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
  • silver point — the melting point of silver, equal to 960.8°C, used as a fixed point on the international temperature scale.
  • simultaneous — existing, occurring, or operating at the same time; concurrent: simultaneous movements; simultaneous translation.
  • sino-tibetan — a family of languages including especially Burmese, Tibetan, and the various local languages and dialects whose speakers share literary Chinese as their standard language.
  • siphonostele — a hollow tube of vascular tissue enclosing a pith and embedded in ground tissue.
  • six counties — the historic counties of Northern Ireland, which no longer have a local government function
  • sixty-second — next after the sixty-first; being the ordinal number for 62.
  • skeletonizer — any of numerous insect species that reduce leaves to a skeleton
  • 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.
  • slot machine — a gambling machine operated by inserting coins into a slot and pulling a handle that activates a set of spinning symbols on wheels, the final alignment of which determines the payoff that is released into a receptacle at the bottom.
  • smotheriness — the condition or state of smothering
  • smotheringly — in a smothering manner
  • sociocentric — oriented toward or focused on one's own social group.
  • sociogenetic — contributing to or affecting the course of social development: sociogenetic factors leading to war.
  • socket joint — a joint in which the rounded end of one part fits into the cavity of another part
  • soft science — any of the specialized fields or disciplines, as psychology, sociology, anthropology, or political science, that interpret human behavior, institutions, society, etc., on the basis of scientific investigations for which it may be difficult to establish strictly measurable criteria.
  • solitariness — alone; without companions; unattended: a solitary passer-by.
  • solution set — the roots or values satisfying a given equation or inequality, or a set of simultaneous equations or inequalities
  • solzhenitsyn — Alexander or Aleksandr (Isayevich) [al-ig-zan-der ee-sahy-uh-vich,, -zahn-;; Russian uh-lyi-ksahn-dr ee-sah-yi-vyich] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər iˈsaɪ ə vɪtʃ,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑn dr iˈsɑ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1918–2008, Russian novelist: Nobel prize 1970; in the U.S. 1974–94.
  • somatotensic — (of certain plants that are eaten as food) restoring equilibrium
  • somers point — a town in SE New Jersey.
  • somnifacient — causing or inducing sleep.
  • 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
  • soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
  • soviet union — the legislature of the former Soviet Union and its successor states, consisting of an upper house (Soviet of the Union or Council of the Union) whose delegates are elected on the basis of population, and a lower house (Soviet of Nationalities or Council of Nationalities) whose delegates are elected to represent the various nationalities.
  • speciational — relating to speciation
  • speedboating — the act, practice, or sport of traveling in a speedboat.
  • sphacelation — the process of mortification
  • spinsterhood — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
  • splenization — the transformation of something into a spleenlike tissue
  • split second — a fraction of a second.
  • splotchiness — the state or condition of being splotchy
  • spot welding — fusing metal
  • stakhanovite — a worker in the Soviet Union who regularly surpassed production quotas and was specially honored and rewarded.
  • stanniferous — containing tin; tin-bearing
  • state prison — a prison maintained by a state for the confinement of felons.
  • stationeries — writing paper.
  • stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
  • steady-going — steadfast; faithful; unchanging: steady-going service to the cause of justice.
  • stegosaurian — having the characteristics of a stegosaur
  • stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
  • stercoranism — the belief that the consecrated Eucharistic elements, the bread and wine, are subject to decay and pass through the body like other ingested things
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