12-letter words containing n, s, r, d
- snow-covered — Snow-covered places and things are covered over with snow.
- snowboarding — a board for gliding on snow, resembling a wide ski, to which both feet are secured and that one rides in an upright position.
- 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
- sonata-rondo — a musical form combining characteristics of both the sonata form and the rondo.
- 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
- sorting yard — sorting tracks.
- 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.
- southernwood — a woody-stemmed wormwood, Artemisia abrotanum, of southern Europe, having aromatic, finely dissected leaves.
- spearheading — the sharp-pointed head that forms the piercing end of a spear.
- speedwriting — a system of shorthand that is based on the sound of words and utilizes letters of the alphabet rather than symbols.
- spider plant — Also called ribbon plant. a plant, Chlorophytum comosum, of the lily family, native to southern Africa, that has long, narrow leaves and clusters of white flowers and is widely cultivated as a houseplant.
- spiderhunter — any of several sunbirds of the genus Arachnothera, of southern Asia and the East Indies, having dull-colored plumage and a long bill.
- spindle tree — any of various shrubs or trees of the genus Euonymus, esp E. europaeus, of Europe and W Asia, typically having red fruits and yielding a hard wood formerly used in making spindles: family Celastraceae
- spinning rod — a flexible fishing rod, often made of fiberglass, used with a spinning reel.
- spinsterhood — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
- spiny lizard — any of numerous iguanid lizards of the genus Sceloporus, common in North and Central America, usually having keeled scales that may end in a sharp point.
- spiral-bound — having a spiral binding.
- spiritedness — having or showing mettle, courage, vigor, liveliness, etc.: a spirited defense of poetry.
- spoil ground — an area within a body of water, especially in the sea, where dredged material is deposited.
- sponged ware — spongeware.
- sporting dog — one of any of several breeds of usually large dogs especially suited by size and training for hunting by pointing, flushing, and retrieving game and including the pointers, setters, retrievers, and spaniels.
- sports drink — a drink containing sugar and salts, etc designed to help replace fluid and energy lost through the physical exertion of sport
- square dance — hoedown, barn dance
- square-dance — to perform or participate in a square dance.
- squared ring — boxing ring.
- stand in for — to substitute for
- stand surety — to act as a surety
- stand up for — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
- standardbred — one of an American breed of trotting and pacing horses used chiefly for harness racing.
- standardized — to bring to or make of an established standard size, weight, quality, strength, or the like: to standardize manufactured parts.
- standardless — having no standard or standards
- starchedness — the condition or quality of being starched
- steam-driven — powered by steam
- stellar wind — the radial outflow of ionized gas from a star.
- 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
- stick around — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- 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.
- stonyhearted — unfeeling; pitiless; cruel
- storm window — a supplementary window sash for protecting a window against drafts, driving rain, etc.
- strandedness — composed of a specified number or kind of strands (usually used in combination): a five-stranded rope.
- stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
- strengthened — to make stronger; give strength to.
- stride piano — a style of jazz piano playing in which the right hand plays the melody while the left hand plays a single bass note or octave on the strong beat and a chord on the weak beat, developed in Harlem during the 1920s, partly from ragtime piano playing.
- strike hands — to show agreement by clasping hands
- stringhalted — afflicted with stringhalt
- stringholder — an oblong piece of wood at the lower end of the body of a viol or other stringed instrument to which the strings are attached.