12-letter words containing n, e, c, s, a
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- straightneck — a variety of summer squash related to the crookneck but not having a recurved neck.
- student card — a card verifying somebody's identity as a university student and entitling them to services, discounts, etc
- stupefacient — stupefying; producing stupor.
- stupefaction — the state of being stupefied; stupor.
- subcentrally — in a subcentral manner
- subcutaneous — situated or lying under the skin, as tissue.
- subdeaconate — subdiaconate.
- subdiaconate — the office or dignity of a subdeacon.
- subjectional — the act of subjecting.
- succedaneous — a substitute.
- successantly — in succession
- successional — the coming of one person or thing after another in order, sequence, or in the course of events: many troubles in succession.
- sultana cake — a cake that contains sultanas
- supercabinet — a specially-formed cabinet, a select or powerful group of political ministers (cabinet)
- supernacular — relating to supernaculum
- supernaculum — a highly regarded liquor, to be drunk to the very last drop
- superorganic — of or relating to the structure of cultural elements within society conceived as independent of and superior to the individual members of society.
- surveillance — a watch kept over a person, group, etc., especially over a suspect, prisoner, or the like: The suspects were under police surveillance.
- sybase, inc. — (company) A software vendor focused on database management software. Yearly sales: $903.9 million (1997). Address: 6475 Christie Ave., Emeryville, California, USA.
- sycophantize — to act the sycophant
- synaesthetic — synesthesia.
- synectically — from a synectic point of view
- synergically — in a synergic manner
- tactlessness — lacking tact; showing no tact; undiplomatic; offendingly blunt: a tactless remark.
- tail section — the back or rear section of an aeroplane
- take chances — to behave in a risky manner
- take counsel — receive advice
- talent scout — a person whose business it is to recognize and recruit persons of marked aptitude for a certain field or occupation, especially in entertainment or sports.
- tax increase — an increase in the amount of tax that people and companies are obliged to pay
- tenths-place — next after ninth; being the ordinal number for ten.
- the analects — a collection of Confucius' teachings
- the ancients — the people who lived in ancient times
- the distance — the most distant or a faraway part of the visible scene or landscape
- the pandects — a digest of Roman civil law in fifty books, compiled for the emperor Justinian in the 6th cent. a.d.; the Digest
- thessalonica — official name of Salonika.
- tinea cruris — jock itch.
- tradescantia — any plant of the American genus Tradescantia, widely cultivated for their striped variegated leaves: family Commelinaceae
- tragicalness — the quality or state of being tragic
- trainer sock — a sock designed to be worn with a training shoe, often cut low at the ankle so that very little shows above the shoe
- transcendent — going beyond ordinary limits; surpassing; exceeding.
- transcending — to rise above or go beyond; overpass; exceed: to transcend the limits of thought; kindness transcends courtesy.
- transcension — transcendence.
- transcurrent — running or extending across or transversely.
- transdialect — to translate (speech, writing, etc.) into a different dialect.
- transfection — the insertion into a cell of a bacterial plasmid that contains a foreign virus or genetic material.
- transference — the act or process of transferring.
- transhumance — the seasonal migration of livestock, and the people who tend them, between lowlands and adjacent mountains.
- transilience — leaping or passing from one thing or state to another.
- translucence — permitting light to pass through but diffusing it so that persons, objects, etc., on the opposite side are not clearly visible: Frosted window glass is translucent but not transparent.