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12-letter words containing l, a, r, s, e, n

  • saltpetreman — a supplier of saltpetre
  • salve regina — a prayer in the form of a hymn to the Virgin Mary.
  • saranac lake — any of three connected lakes (Upper, Middle, & Lower) in the Adirondacks, NE N.Y.
  • satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • saunteringly — in a sauntering manner
  • scatteringly — in a scattering manner
  • sclerenchyma — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
  • scratch line — a line that marks the start of a race.
  • sea lavender — an Old World, maritime plant, Limonium vulgare, of the leadwort family, having one-sided spikes of small, lavender-colored flowers.
  • sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
  • sea purslane — a small chenopodiaceous shrub, Halimione portulacoides, of salt marshes in Eurasia and parts of Africa, having oval leaves and inconspicuous flowers
  • selenography — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
  • self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
  • self-raising — a rule of transformational grammar that shifts the subject or object of an embedded clause into the subject or object position of the main clause, as in the derivation of The suspect appears to be innocent from It appears that the suspect is innocent.
  • self-reading — the action or practice of a person who reads.
  • self-reliant — relying on oneself or on one's own powers, resources, etc.
  • self-renewal — the act of renewing.
  • selling race — a claiming race at the end of which the winning horse is offered for sale.
  • selling rate — the rate at which a bank is willing to sell foreign currency
  • serial bonds — Serial bonds are bonds that are issued at the same time but have staggered maturity dates.
  • servant girl — a girl or woman employed as a servant who performs household duties
  • shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
  • sierra leone — an independent republic in W Africa: member of the Commonwealth of Nations; formerly a British colony and protectorate. 27,925 sq. mi. (72,326 sq. km). Capital: Freetown.
  • signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
  • silas marner — a novel (1861) by George Eliot.
  • silent alarm — an alarm that alerts security personnel or the police without the knowledge of the intruder or criminal whose presence triggers it: The silent alarm set off a flashing light at the police station.
  • single cream — dairy product: thin or light cream
  • single track — a single pair of lines so that trains can travel in only one direction at a time
  • single-party — of or relating to a form of government in which only a single political party constitutes the government
  • single-payer — noting or relating to a healthcare or health insurance system in which the government or a publicly owned and regulated agency pays all medical costs from a single fund.
  • single-track — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
  • sir lawrence — Sir Lawrence Alma-, Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence.
  • skeleton car — a freight car essentially consisting of a central longitudinal girder fastened to the trucks, sometimes supplemented by one or more pairs of cross cantilevers: used for carrying logs or containers.
  • slaughterman — a person employed to kill animals in a slaughterhouse
  • sleep around — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
  • sleeping car — a railroad car fitted with berths, compartments, bedrooms, or drawing rooms for passengers to sleep in.
  • sloganeering — Sloganeering is the use of slogans by people such as politicians or advertising agencies.
  • sloped roman — a roman (vertical) typeface, usually sans serif, i.e. without the small, decorative, terminal strokes with which some typefaces are designed. The typeface is made to slope (usually to the right), but not generally to the same degree as a true italic typeface
  • small ermine — an unrelated micro, Yponomeuta padella
  • small screen — the medium of television.
  • small wonder — (I am) hardly surprised (that)
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • soprano clef — a sign locating middle C on the bottom line of the staff.
  • sphincterial — relating to a sphincter
  • 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.
  • spinal nerve — any of a series of paired nerves that originate in the nerve roots of the spinal cord and emerge from the vertebrae on both sides of the spinal column, each branching out to innervate a specific region of the neck, trunk, or limbs.
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