12-letter words containing l, i, t, e, s, n
- sanctifiedly — in a sanctified manner
- sanctionable — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- sanguinolent — of or relating to blood.
- santa isabel — former name of Malabo.
- 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
- schindyletic — relating to the joint in which one bone is received into the cleft or slit of another bone
- scratch line — a line that marks the start of a race.
- scribblement — a scribble
- scutellation — a scutellate state or formation; a scaly covering, as on a bird's foot.
- seating plan — layout of seats at a venue or on transport
- seclusionist — a person who prefers to be alone or secluded
- 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.
- selectionist — a person who believes in natural selection
- self-antigen — autoantigen.
- self-basting — (of a turkey) prepared with oil or butter to remain moist when cooked in an oven.
- self-benefit — something that is advantageous or good; an advantage: He explained the benefits of public ownership of the postal system.
- self-conceit — an excessively favorable opinion of oneself, one's abilities, etc.; vanity.
- self-evident — evident in itself without proof or demonstration; axiomatic.
- self-heating — the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
- self-pitying — Someone who is self-pitying is full of self-pity.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- semi-monthly — made, occurring, done, or published twice a month.
- semifinalist — a participant or one qualified to participate in a semifinal.
- 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.
- sensualistic — of or pertaining to the philosophical position of sensualism
- sensualities — sensual nature: the sensuality of Keats's poetry.
- sequentially — characterized by regular sequence of parts.
- serpentinely — in a serpentine fashion
- servant girl — a girl or woman employed as a servant who performs household duties
- setting rule — a metal strip used in the hand-setting of type in a composing stick to separate the line being set from the previous one
- sewing table — a worktable for holding sewing materials, often supplied with a bag or pouch for needlework.
- shoot a line — to try to create a false image, as by boasting or exaggerating
- shut-in well — confined to one's home, a hospital, etc., as from illness.
- sialadenitis — inflammation of one or more of the salivary glands.
- signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
- 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.
- 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.
- simple tense — a tense of verbs, in English and other languages, not involving the use of an auxiliary verb in addition to the main verb, as for example the past he drowned as opposed to the future he will drown