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

  • rubber plant — a plant, Ficus elastica, of the mulberry family, having oblong, shining, leathery leaves, growing native as a tall tree in India, the Malay Archipelago, etc., used as a source of rubber and cultivated in Europe and America as an ornamental house plant.
  • rutlandshire — a former county, now part of Leicestershire, in central England.
  • sacramentals — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
  • 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.
  • sailing date — the date that a ship or boat departs on a sailing voyage
  • saint helena — Saint, c247–c330, mother of Constantine I.
  • saint helens — a city in Merseyside, in NW England, near Liverpool.
  • saint helier — a British island in the English Channel: the largest of the Channel Islands. 44 sq. mi. (116 sq. km). Capital: St. Helier.
  • saint phalle — Niki de [nik-ee duh;; French nee-kee duh] /ˈnɪk i də;; French niˈki də/ (Show IPA), 1930–2002, French sculptor and painter.
  • 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.
  • salmon steak — a thick slice of salmon
  • saltpetreman — a supplier of saltpetre
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
  • seating plan — layout of seats at a venue or on transport
  • secant angle — an angle formed by two secants meeting in a point
  • sectionalism — excessive regard for sectional or local interests; regional or local spirit, prejudice, etc.
  • sectionalize — to render sectional.
  • sedimentable — capable of forming sediment
  • segmentalize — to make segmentalized.
  • self-antigen — autoantigen.
  • self-basting — (of a turkey) prepared with oil or butter to remain moist when cooked in an oven.
  • self-heating — the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
  • self-reliant — relying on oneself or on one's own powers, resources, etc.
  • self-tanning — cosmetic substance applied to the skin to simulate a suntan
  • self-tapping — (of a screw) cutting its own thread when screwed into a plain hole in a metal sheet
  • selling rate — the rate at which a bank is willing to sell foreign currency
  • semantically — of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.
  • semifinalist — a participant or one qualified to participate in a semifinal.
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