12-letter words containing s, e, t, a, i, l
- relativistic — of or relating to relativity or relativism.
- restrainable — to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
- rheumatismal — of or relating to rheumatism
- rooseveltian — of, pertaining to, advocating, or following the principles, views, or policies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt or of Theodore Roosevelt.
- rooster tail — the wake thrown up behind a speeding boat or the dust thrown up behind a speeding vehicle.
- royal tennis — court tennis.
- rutlandshire — a former county, now part of Leicestershire, in central England.
- saddle joint — (on a sill, coping, or the like) a vertical joint raised above the level of the washes on each side.
- saddle point — a point at which a function of two variables has partial derivatives equal to zero but at which the function has neither a maximum nor a minimum value.
- sailing date — the date that a ship or boat departs on a sailing voyage
- saint helena — Saint, c247–c330, mother of Constantine I.
- saint helens — a city in Merseyside, in NW England, near Liverpool.
- saint helier — a British island in the English Channel: the largest of the Channel Islands. 44 sq. mi. (116 sq. km). Capital: St. Helier.
- saint phalle — Niki de [nik-ee duh;; French nee-kee duh] /ˈnɪk i də;; French niˈki də/ (Show IPA), 1930–2002, French sculptor and painter.
- saint-mihiel — a town in NE France, on the Meuse River, NW of Nancy: captured by American forces 1918.
- sal volatile — an aromatic alcoholic solution of ammonium carbonate, the chief ingredient in smelling salts.
- 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.
- salutiferous — salutary.
- sample point — a possible result of an experiment, represented as a point.
- sanctifiedly — in a sanctified manner
- sanctionable — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- sanguinolent — of or relating to blood.
- santa isabel — former name of Malabo.
- 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
- scale insect — any of numerous small, plant-sucking homopterous insects of the superfamily Coccoidea, the males of which are winged and the females wingless, often covered by a waxy secretion resembling scales.
- scatteringly — in a scattering manner
- 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.
- scots gaelic — Scottish Gaelic
- 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.
- scrobiculate — furrowed or pitted.
- scutellation — a scutellate state or formation; a scaly covering, as on a bird's foot.
- sea milkwort — a maritime plant, Glaux maritima, having small, pinkish-white flowers.
- seating plan — layout of seats at a venue or on transport
- secobarbital — a white, odorless, slightly bitter powder, C 1 2 H 1 8 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative and hypnotic.
- sectionalism — excessive regard for sectional or local interests; regional or local spirit, prejudice, etc.
- sectionalize — to render sectional.
- sedimentable — capable of forming sediment
- see daylight — the light of day: At the end of the tunnel they could see daylight.
- seed capital — small sum invested in new business
- segmentalize — to make segmentalized.
- self-antigen — autoantigen.
- self-basting — (of a turkey) prepared with oil or butter to remain moist when cooked in an oven.
- self-heating — the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
- self-reliant — relying on oneself or on one's own powers, resources, etc.
- self-tanning — cosmetic substance applied to the skin to simulate a suntan
- self-tapping — (of a screw) cutting its own thread when screwed into a plain hole in a metal sheet
- selling rate — the rate at which a bank is willing to sell foreign currency
- semantically — of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.