12-letter words containing r, o, l, e, s, t
- rootlessness — having no roots.
- roots blower — a machine for compressing or evacuating air or gas by the rotation of a meshing pair of lobed wheels in a closely fitting case.
- royal assent — (in Britain) the formal signing of an act of Parliament by the sovereign, by which it becomes law
- royal tennis — court tennis.
- rust-colored — of the color rust.
- sacred lotus — Indian lotus.
- sales report — a periodical report made by a salesperson to a manager giving details of amounts sold, existing and new accounts, etc
- salutiferous — salutary.
- satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- 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.
- schoolmaster — a man who presides over or teaches in a school.
- 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
- scrobiculate — furrowed or pitted.
- 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.
- secobarbital — a white, odorless, slightly bitter powder, C 1 2 H 1 8 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative and hypnotic.
- self-control — control or restraint of oneself or one's actions, feelings, etc.
- self-storage — noting or pertaining to a warehouse or other facility that rents units to people for storing personal possessions.
- self-support — the supporting or maintaining of oneself or itself without reliance on outside aid.
- self-torment — an act or instance of tormenting oneself, as with worry or guilt.
- self-torture — the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.
- self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
- sell-through — quantity of direct sales made
- semilustrous — partially or somewhat lustrous
- semitropical — subtropical.
- seropurulent — composed of or containing both serum and pus
- servocontrol — control by means of a servomechanism.
- shoe leather — treated animal skin used for shoes
- shore patrol — (often initial capital letters) members of an organization in the U.S. Navy having police duties similar to those performed by military police. Abbreviation: SP.
- short seller — a person, as a speculator, who sells short.
- short splice — a splice used when an increased thickness of the united rope is not objectionable, made by unlaying the rope ends a certain distance, uniting them so that their strands overlap, then tucking each alternately over and under others several times.
- shower stall — an individual compartment or self-contained unit, having a single shower and accommodating one person.
- signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
- silver frost — glaze (def 17).
- silver point — the melting point of silver, equal to 960.8°C, used as a fixed point on the international temperature scale.
- silver trout — a variety of cutthroat trout, Salmo clarki henshawi, having silvery coloration, inhabiting Lake Tahoe.
- skeleton car — a freight car essentially consisting of a central longitudinal girder fastened to the trucks, sometimes supplemented by one or more pairs of cross cantilevers: used for carrying logs or containers.
- skeletonizer — any of numerous insect species that reduce leaves to a skeleton
- slaughterous — murderous; destructive.
- slipper foot — an elongated pad foot.
- slow neutron — a neutron with low kinetic energy, especially one slowed by the moderator in a nuclear reactor.
- small stores — personal items, such as clothing, sold aboard ship or at a naval base
- smother-love — a relationship between a parent and child in which the parent is over-protective to the extent that the child's normal psychological development is inhibited
- smotheringly — in a smothering manner
- snollygoster — a clever, unscrupulous person.
- soft release — a means of gradually accustoming wild animals to a new environment before releasing them into it
- solar system — the sun together with all the planets and other bodies that revolve around it.
- solenogaster — any of a group of wormlike mollusks, class Solenogastres (formerly Aplacophora), inhabiting deep ocean layers and having fine limy spicules on the covering mantle.
- solid rocket — any of various rockets using solid fuel