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

  • saint-mihiel — a town in NE France, on the Meuse River, NW of Nancy: captured by American forces 1918.
  • salad burnet — a plant, Poterium sanguisorba, of the rose family, native to Eurasia, having rounded heads of small, greenish flowers in short spikes and edible leaves.
  • salamandrine — any tailed amphibian of the order Caudata, having a soft, moist, scaleless skin, typically aquatic as a larva and semiterrestrial as an adult: several species are endangered.
  • salary range — pay scale
  • salesmanship — the technique of selling a product: They used a promotional gimmick that was the last word in salesmanship.
  • salk vaccine — a vaccine that contains three types of inactivated poliomyelitis viruses and induces immunity against the disease.
  • salmon steak — a thick slice of salmon
  • saloonkeeper — a person who operates a saloon (sense 3)
  • saltpetreman — a supplier of saltpetre
  • salve regina — a prayer in the form of a hymn to the Virgin Mary.
  • sample point — a possible result of an experiment, represented as a point.
  • san clemente — a town in S California.
  • sanctifiedly — in a sanctified manner
  • sanctionable — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
  • sanctus bell — a bell rung during the celebration of Mass to call attention to the more solemn parts.
  • sand-blasted — a blast of air or steam laden with sand, used to clean, grind, cut, or decorate hard surfaces, as of glass, stone, or metal.
  • sand-floated — noting an exterior wall finish composed of mortar rubbed with sand and floated when it has partly set.
  • sanguinolent — of or relating to blood.
  • sankt gallen — German name of St. Gallen.
  • sankt pölten — a city in NE Austria, the capital of Lower Austria state. Pop: 49 121 (2001)
  • sans-culotte — (in the French Revolution) a revolutionary of the poorer class: originally a term of contempt applied by the aristocrats but later adopted as a popular name by the revolutionaries.
  • santa isabel — former name of Malabo.
  • santalaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Santalaceae, a family of semiparasitic plants of Australia and Malaysia including sandalwood and quandong
  • 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
  • scale insect — any of numerous small, plant-sucking homopterous insects of the superfamily Coccoidea, the males of which are winged and the females wingless, often covered by a waxy secretion resembling scales.
  • scatteringly — in a scattering manner
  • scheme-linda — A Scheme interface to Linda written by Ulf Dahlen of University of Edinburgh in 1990. It runs on the Computing Surface and the Symmetry.
  • schmalkalden — a town in central Germany: a league to defend Protestantism formed here 1531.
  • schwann cell — a cell of the peripheral nervous system that wraps around a nerve fiber, jelly-roll fashion, forming the myelin sheath.
  • sclerenchyma — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
  • scratch line — a line that marks the start of a race.
  • scutellation — a scutellate state or formation; a scaly covering, as on a bird's foot.
  • sea elephant — elephant seal.
  • 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
  • seamlessness — having no seams: seamless stockings.
  • seating plan — layout of seats at a venue or on transport
  • secant angle — an angle formed by two secants meeting in a point
  • second-class — of a secondary class or quality.
  • sectionalism — excessive regard for sectional or local interests; regional or local spirit, prejudice, etc.
  • sectionalize — to render sectional.
  • sedimentable — capable of forming sediment
  • seeing glass — a looking glass; mirror.
  • segmentalize — to make segmentalized.
  • selenic acid — a crystalline, water-soluble, strong, corrosive, dibasic acid, H 2 SeO 4 , resembling sulfuric acid.
  • selenography — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
  • self-antigen — autoantigen.
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