12-letter words containing s, e, t, n, a
- saskatchewan — a province in W Canada. 251,700 sq. mi. (651,900 sq. km). Capital: Regina.
- 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.
- scapegoating — the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself.
- scatteration — the act of scattering.
- scatterbrain — a person incapable of serious, connected thought.
- scatteringly — in a scattering manner
- scene master — (on a switchboard) a master switch that controls several lighting circuits.
- scitamineous — of or relating to the Scitimanae order of plants, which includes the ginger and banana plants
- scratch line — a line that marks the start of a race.
- screen actor — a film actor
- scutellation — a scutellate state or formation; a scaly covering, as on a bird's foot.
- sea elephant — elephant seal.
- sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
- seating plan — layout of seats at a venue or on transport
- secant angle — an angle formed by two secants meeting in a point
- secret agent — an agent of a secret service.
- secret santa — anonymous Christmas gift exchange
- sectarianism — sectarian spirit or tendencies; excessive devotion to a particular sect, especially in religion.
- sectarianize — to make sectarian.
- section gang — a group of workers who take care of a section of railroad track.
- section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
- section mark — section (def 16).
- sectionalism — excessive regard for sectional or local interests; regional or local spirit, prejudice, etc.
- sectionalize — to render sectional.
- security van — an armoured van used to transport money or other valuables
- sedimentable — capable of forming sediment
- segmentalize — to make segmentalized.
- segmentation — division into segments.
- seismonastic — of or relating to seismonasty
- sejant-erect — (of an animal) represented as seated upright with forelegs raised: a lion sejant-erect.
- 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
- semantic web — an extension of the World Wide Web in which data is structured and XML-tagged on the basis of its meaning or content, so that computers can process and integrate the information without human intervention: the semantic Web acting as a global database or huge brain.
- semantically — of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.
- semi-dormant — lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid: The lecturer's sudden shout woke the dormant audience.
- semiautonomy — the quality or state of being semiautonomous.
- semibasement — a basement partly above ground, as in a house built on a slope.
- semidominant — producing an intermediate, heterozygous phenotype
- semifinalist — a participant or one qualified to participate in a semifinal.
- semifloating — noting or pertaining to a driving axle of an automobile or the like, the inner end of which is carried by the differential gear and the outer end of which is keyed to a wheel supported by the axle housing.
- semimonastic — somewhat monastic; monastic in certain respects
- senarmontite — a mineral, antimony trioxide, Sb 2 O 3 , occurring in pearl-colored isometric octahedrons: a dimorph of valentinite.
- sensationism — a theory of psychology maintaining that experience consists solely of sensations.