12-letter words containing r, e, d, s, a
- sleeve board — a small-scale ironing board for pressing sleeves, especially a narrow board that fits inside a coat sleeve.
- sliced bread — bread: sold pre-sliced
- slide guitar — bottleneck (def 3).
- 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
- slumbershade — sleep shade.
- small wonder — (I am) hardly surprised (that)
- snail darter — a tan, striped, snail-eating perch, Percina tanasi, 3 inches (7.5 cm) long, occurring only in the Tennessee River: a threatened species.
- snake doctor — South Midland and Southern U.S. a dragonfly.
- snake feeder — a dragonfly.
- 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.
- sober-headed — characterized by clear, logical thinking; not fanciful or capricious.
- social order — structure or hierarchy of society
- soda cracker — a thin, crisp cracker or wafer prepared from a yeast dough that has been neutralized by baking soda.
- soft-hearted — very sympathetic or responsive; generous in spirit: a soft-hearted judge.
- soldier crab — a small blue Australian estuarine crab of the Mictyris genus usually found in large numbers
- 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.
- spatter dash — roughcast (def 1).
- spatter-dash — Also called spatter dash. an exterior wall finish composed of mortar and fine pebbles mixed together and dashed against the wall. Compare pebble dash.
- spearheading — the sharp-pointed head that forms the piercing end of a spear.
- speed camera — device that detects speeding traffic
- spermaticide — spermicide.
- spermatocide — spermicide.
- spermatozoid — a motile male gamete produced in an antheridium.
- 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.
- spit-roasted — cooked on a spit
- sponged ware — spongeware.
- spread eagle — the representation of an eagle with outstretched wings, used as an emblem of the US
- spread-eagle — having or suggesting the form of a spread eagle.
- spreadeagled — Someone who is spreadeagled is lying with their arms and legs spread out.
- square dance — hoedown, barn dance
- square-dance — to perform or participate in a square dance.
- square-faced — having a front shaped so as to be square or rectangular
- square-jawed — having a regular, approximately rectangular jaw
- squared away — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
- squared ring — boxing ring.
- stage-driver — the driver of a stagecoach.
- stagger head — dropline.
- stakeholders — the holder of the stakes of a wager.
- stamp dealer — someone who buys and sells postage stamps (to collectors)
- stand surety — to act as a surety
- 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
- star-crossed — thwarted or opposed by the stars; ill-fated: star-crossed lovers.
- star-studded — lighted by or full of stars; bright: a star-studded night.
- starchedness — the condition or quality of being starched
- stated clerk — an administrative official in the Presbyterian Church and certain other Protestant churches
- steam-driven — powered by steam
- stearic acid — a colorless, waxlike, sparingly water-soluble, odorless solid, C 1 8 H 3 6 O 2 , the most common fatty acid, occurring as the glyceride in tallow and other animal fats and in some animal oils: used chiefly in the manufacture of soaps, stearates, candles, cosmetics, and in medicine in suppositories and pill coatings.
- stellar wind — the radial outflow of ionized gas from a star.