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12-letter words containing n, o, s, e, d

  • semi-nomadic — of, relating to, or characteristic of nomads.
  • semideponent — (of a Latin verb) active in meaning but passive in form in the perfect tense
  • semidominant — producing an intermediate, heterozygous phenotype
  • send out for — If you send out for food, for example pizzas or sandwiches, you phone and ask for it to be delivered to you.
  • serial bonds — Serial bonds are bonds that are issued at the same time but have staggered maturity dates.
  • series-wound — noting a commutator motor in which the field circuit and armature circuit are connected in series.
  • severodvinsk — a city in the N Russian Federation in Europe, on Dvina Gulf, E of Archangel.
  • sex offender — a person who has been found guilty of one or more sex crimes.
  • sexdecillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 51 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 96 zeros.
  • shadow dance — a dance in which shadows of the dancers are cast on a screen.
  • shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
  • shore dinner — a meal consisting chiefly of seafood.
  • short-handed — not having the usual or necessary number of workers, helpers, etc.
  • short-winded — short of breath; liable to difficulty in breathing.
  • shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
  • shoshone dam — a dam on the Shoshone River. 328 feet (100 meters) high.
  • shovel-nosed — having the head, snout, or beak broad and flat like the blade of a shovel.
  • silver mound — a perennial Japanese herb, Artemisia schmidtiana, having silver-green leaves forming a moundlike shape.
  • single modal — modal (def 3).
  • sixty-second — next after the sixty-first; being the ordinal number for 62.
  • 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.
  • slide-action — (of a rifle or shotgun) having a lever that when slid back and forth ejects the empty case and cocks and reloads the piece.
  • 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 wonder — (I am) hardly surprised (that)
  • snake doctor — South Midland and Southern U.S. a dragonfly.
  • snotty-faced — having visible nasal mucus on the face
  • snotty-nosed — child: runny nose
  • 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.
  • snow-covered — Snow-covered places and things are covered over with snow.
  • snowed under — If you say that you are snowed under, you are emphasizing that you have a lot of work or other things to deal with.
  • sober-minded — rational; sensible.
  • soft-centred — (of a chocolate or boiled sweet) having a centre consisting of cream, jelly, etc
  • sorting code — a sequence of numbers printed on a cheque or embossed on a bank or building-society card that identifies the branch holding the account
  • sound camera — a motion-picture camera that is capable of photographing silently at the normal speed of 24 fps and operating in synchronization with separate audio recording equipment.
  • sound change — any phonetic or phonological change in spoken language, for example the replacement of one speech sound with another, or the loss of a particular sound
  • sound effect — any sound, other than music or speech, artificially reproduced to create an effect in a dramatic presentation, as the sound of a storm or a creaking door.
  • sound system — equipment for playing music
  • sounion head — the tip of the Attica peninsula, E central Greece: site of ancient temple ruins.
  • southernwood — a woody-stemmed wormwood, Artemisia abrotanum, of southern Europe, having aromatic, finely dissected leaves.
  • speech sound — any of the set of distinctive sounds of a given language. Compare phoneme.
  • speedboating — the act, practice, or sport of traveling in a speedboat.
  • spinsterhood — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
  • split second — a fraction of a second.
  • sponged ware — spongeware.
  • spot welding — fusing metal
  • staddlestone — (formerly) one of several supports for a hayrick, consisting of a truncated conical stone surmounted by a flat circular stone
  • steady-going — steadfast; faithful; unchanging: steady-going service to the cause of justice.
  • stem-end rot — a disease of fruits characterized by discoloration, shriveling, and decay of the stem and adjacent parts of the fruit and caused by any of several fungi of the genera Diplodia and Phomopsis.
  • stereo sound — reproduction of sound using two or more separate microphones to feed two or more loudspeakers through separate channels in order to give a spatial effect to the sound
  • stone-ground — (of wheat or other grain) ground between millstones, especially those made of burstone, so as to retain the whole of the grain and preserve nutritional content.
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