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

  • signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
  • siliciferous — containing, combined with, or producing silica.
  • silky cornel — a cornel, Cornus amomum, of the eastern U.S., having leaves covered with short, silky hairs on the underside and bearing blue berries.
  • silver frost — glaze (def 17).
  • silver mound — a perennial Japanese herb, Artemisia schmidtiana, having silver-green leaves forming a moundlike shape.
  • silver point — the melting point of silver, equal to 960.8°C, used as a fixed point on the international temperature scale.
  • silver spoon — spoon (def 16).
  • silver trout — a variety of cutthroat trout, Salmo clarki henshawi, having silvery coloration, inhabiting Lake Tahoe.
  • simon legree — Simon, Simon Legree.
  • simple group — a group that has no normal subgroup except the group itself and the identity.
  • single-cross — a cross between two inbred lines.
  • six-year-old — being six years in age
  • 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
  • slalom racer — someone who takes part in a slalom
  • slaughterous — murderous; destructive.
  • slave labour — Slave labour refers to slaves or to work done by slaves.
  • 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.
  • sleeper goby — any gobioid fish of the family Eleotridae, of brackish or fresh tropical waters, resembling the gobies but lacking a ventral sucker
  • sleeve board — a small-scale ironing board for pressing sleeves, especially a narrow board that fits inside a coat sleeve.
  • slipper foot — an elongated pad foot.
  • slipper sock — a sock with a soft leather or vinyl sole sewn onto it, used as indoor footwear.
  • sloganeering — Sloganeering is the use of slogans by people such as politicians or advertising agencies.
  • sloop-rigged — (of a sailboat) fore-and-aft rigged with a mainsail and a jib.
  • 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
  • slow neutron — a neutron with low kinetic energy, especially one slowed by the moderator in a nuclear reactor.
  • slow-release — sustained-release.
  • small stores — personal items, such as clothing, sold aboard ship or at a naval base
  • small wonder — (I am) hardly surprised (that)
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • snowy plover — a small plover, Charadrius alexandrinus, mainly of the U.S. and Mexico, having a white breast and sand-colored upper parts.
  • soboliferous — bearing or producing soboles
  • social order — structure or hierarchy of society
  • soft release — a means of gradually accustoming wild animals to a new environment before releasing them into it
  • soil profile — a vertical succession of horizons, commonly lettered A, B, C (beginning at the surface), that have been subjected to soil-forming processes, chiefly leaching and oxidation.
  • solar cooker — a simple, low-cost device using focused sunshine to cook rice, boil water, etc.
  • solar energy — energy derived from the sun in the form of solar radiation.
  • solar plexus — Also called celiac plexus. Anatomy. a network of nerves situated at the upper part of the abdomen, behind the stomach and in front of the aorta.
  • solar system — the sun together with all the planets and other bodies that revolve around it.
  • soldier crab — a small blue Australian estuarine crab of the Mictyris genus usually found in large numbers
  • 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 figure — a figure that has three dimensions
  • solid rocket — any of various rockets using solid fuel
  • solitariness — alone; without companions; unattended: a solitary passer-by.
  • solitary bee — any of numerous bees, as the leaf-cutting bees, that do not live in a community.
  • somatopleure — the double layer formed by the association of the upper layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the overlying ectoderm, functioning in the formation of the body wall and amnion.
  • soprano clef — a sign locating middle C on the bottom line of the staff.
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