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12-letter words containing s, e, r, n, a, d

  • sand-sprayed — noting an exterior wall finish composed of mortar to which is added a mixture of sand and cement in equal parts while the mortar is still wet.
  • sandbox tree — a tropical American tree, Hura crepitans, of the spurge family, bearing a furrowed, roundish fruit about the size of an orange that when ripe and dry bursts with a sharp report and scatters the seeds.
  • sandpapering — the act or process of polishing or grinding a surface with or as if with sandpaper
  • sarcoadenoma — adenosarcoma.
  • schneiderman — Rose, 1884–1972, U.S. labor leader, born in Poland.
  • screw around — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
  • scrimshander — a person who makes scrimshaw objects.
  • sea lavender — an Old World, maritime plant, Limonium vulgare, of the leadwort family, having one-sided spikes of small, lavender-colored flowers.
  • second grade — school year: age 7-8
  • secunderabad — a city in N Andhra Pradesh, in central India, part of Hyderabad: a former British military cantonment.
  • self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
  • self-reading — the action or practice of a person who reads.
  • semi-dormant — lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid: The lecturer's sudden shout woke the dormant audience.
  • semidarkness — partial darkness.
  • sendai virus — a paramyxovirus that tends to cause cell fusion: in inactive form, used in biological research to produce cells with multiple nuclei of different genetic constitutions.
  • sense strand — that strand of a double-stranded DNA molecule which serves as the template from which RNA, esp. messenger RNA, is transcribed
  • serial bonds — Serial bonds are bonds that are issued at the same time but have staggered maturity dates.
  • shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
  • sherardizing — to coat (steel) with a thin cladding of zinc by heating in a mixture of sand and powdered zinc.
  • shevardnadze — Eduard A [ed-werd;; Russian ed-wahrt] /ˈɛd wərd;; Russian ɛdˈwɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1928–2014, Soviet foreign minister 1985–91; president of his native Georgian Republic 1995–2003.
  • short-handed — not having the usual or necessary number of workers, helpers, etc.
  • shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • spearheading — the sharp-pointed head that forms the piercing end of a spear.
  • 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.
  • sponged ware — spongeware.
  • square dance — hoedown, barn dance
  • square-dance — to perform or participate in a square dance.
  • squared ring — boxing ring.
  • 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
  • starchedness — the condition or quality of being starched
  • steam-driven — powered by steam
  • stellar wind — the radial outflow of ionized gas from a star.
  • stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
  • stonyhearted — unfeeling; pitiless; cruel
  • 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.
  • 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
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