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12-letter words containing r, a, l, e, s

  • salamandrine — any tailed amphibian of the order Caudata, having a soft, moist, scaleless skin, typically aquatic as a larva and semiterrestrial as an adult: several species are endangered.
  • salary range — pay scale
  • sale of work — a sale of goods and handicrafts made by the members of a club, church congregation, etc, to raise money
  • sales ledger — record of business accounts
  • sales report — a periodical report made by a salesperson to a manager giving details of amounts sold, existing and new accounts, etc
  • sales target — a fixed amount of sales that a person or organization wants to achieve
  • sales trader — a person employed by a market maker, or his firm, to find clients
  • salescritter — /sayls'kri"tr/ Pejorative hackerism for a computer salesperson. Hackers tell the following joke: Q. What's the difference between a used-car dealer and a computer salesman? A. The used-car dealer knows he's lying. [Some versions add: ...and probably knows how to drive.] This reflects the widespread hacker belief that salescritters are self-selected for stupidity (after all, if they had brains and the inclination to use them, they'd be in programming). The terms "salesthing" and "salesdroid" are also common. Compare marketroid, suit.
  • saloonkeeper — a person who operates a saloon (sense 3)
  • saltpetreman — a supplier of saltpetre
  • salutiferous — salutary.
  • salve regina — a prayer in the form of a hymn to the Virgin Mary.
  • samuel lover — Samuel, 1797–1868, Irish novelist, painter, and songwriter.
  • samuel morse — Jedidiah [jed-i-dahy-uh] /ˌdʒɛd ɪˈdaɪ ə/ (Show IPA), 1761–1826, U.S. geographer and Congregational clergyman (father of Samuel F. B. Morse).
  • saranac lake — any of three connected lakes (Upper, Middle, & Lower) in the Adirondacks, NE N.Y.
  • 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
  • sausage curl — a lock of hair formed into a curl resembling a sausage in shape.
  • sausage roll — A sausage roll is a small amount of sausage meat which is covered with pastry and cooked.
  • sb's travels — the journeys someone makes to places a long way from their home
  • scabbardless — lacking a scabbard or a sheath for a sword or dagger
  • scalar field — a region with a number assigned at each point.
  • scarlet sage — a tender shrub, Salvia splendens, of Brazil, having ovate leaves and bell-shaped scarlet flowers.
  • scatter plot — a graphic representation of bivariate data as a set of points in the plane that have Cartesian coordinates equal to corresponding values of the two variates.
  • scatteringly — in a scattering manner
  • schiaparelli — Elsa [el-sah] /ˈɛl sɑ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1973, French fashion designer, born in Italy.
  • schoolmaster — a man who presides over or teaches in a school.
  • sclerenchyma — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
  • scopes trial — John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
  • scout leader — the leader of a troop of Scouts
  • scrap dealer — a person who deals in scrap
  • scratch file — A scratch file is a temporary computer file which you use as a work area or as a store while a program is operating.
  • scratch line — a line that marks the start of a race.
  • scratchplate — a plastic or metal plate attached to the front of a guitar to protect it from pick scratches
  • scrobiculate — furrowed or pitted.
  • sea lavender — an Old World, maritime plant, Limonium vulgare, of the leadwort family, having one-sided spikes of small, lavender-colored flowers.
  • sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
  • sea milkwort — a maritime plant, Glaux maritima, having small, pinkish-white flowers.
  • sea purslane — a small chenopodiaceous shrub, Halimione portulacoides, of salt marshes in Eurasia and parts of Africa, having oval leaves and inconspicuous flowers
  • secobarbital — a white, odorless, slightly bitter powder, C 1 2 H 1 8 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative and hypnotic.
  • selenography — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
  • self-assured — self-confident.
  • self-created — to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.
  • self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
  • self-mastery — self-control.
  • self-raising — a rule of transformational grammar that shifts the subject or object of an embedded clause into the subject or object position of the main clause, as in the derivation of The suspect appears to be innocent from It appears that the suspect is innocent.
  • self-reading — the action or practice of a person who reads.
  • self-reliant — relying on oneself or on one's own powers, resources, etc.
  • self-renewal — the act of renewing.
  • self-starter — starter (def 3).
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