12-letter words containing s, e, t, n, a
- snake-bitten — bitten by a snake.
- sneak out of — leave secretly
- snotty-faced — having visible nasal mucus on the face
- snowshoe cat — a breed of cat with soft short hair, blue eyes, an inverted V-shaped marking on the face, and white feet
- soft chancre — chancroid.
- 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.
- solitariness — alone; without companions; unattended: a solitary passer-by.
- somatotensic — (of certain plants that are eaten as food) restoring equilibrium
- somnambulate — to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.
- somnifacient — causing or inducing sleep.
- sooner state — Oklahoma (used as a nickname).
- sorbefacient — inducing absorption
- south korean — a country in E Asia: formed 1948 after the division of the former country of Korea at 38° N. 36,600 sq. mi. (94,795 sq. km). Capital: Seoul. Compare Korea.
- south orange — a city in NE New Jersey.
- southeastern — from the south east
- spatter cone — a low, steep-sided volcanic cone built up of droplets or blobs of lava erupted from a fissure or vent.
- speciational — relating to speciation
- speed dating — an organized social event in which participants have one-on-one conversations typically limited to less than ten minutes, for the purpose of meeting people they would like to date.
- speedboating — the act, practice, or sport of traveling in a speedboat.
- speedskating — a form of ice skating in which contestants race against each other or the clock over various distances
- spermatozoon — one of the minute, usually actively motile gametes in semen, which serve to fertilize the ovum; a mature male reproductive cell.
- sphacelation — the process of mortification
- sphincterial — relating to a sphincter
- 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.
- spinach beet — chard, a plant cultivated for its edible leaves
- splatterpunk — a form of fiction featuring extremely graphic violence.
- splenization — the transformation of something into a spleenlike tissue
- spring water — water from natural underground source
- st. lawrence — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
- staddlestone — (formerly) one of several supports for a hayrick, consisting of a truncated conical stone surmounted by a flat circular stone
- stage-manage — to work as a stage manager for: When he wasn't acting, he stage-managed a repertory theater.
- staggeringly — tending to stagger or overwhelm: a staggering amount of money required in the initial investment.
- staging area — an area, as a port of embarkation, where troops are assembled and readied for transit to a new field of operations.
- stakhanovite — a worker in the Soviet Union who regularly surpassed production quotas and was specially honored and rewarded.
- 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
- stanley pool — a lake between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Congo-Brazzaville, formed by a widening of the River Congo. Area: 829 sq km (320 sq miles)
- stanleyville — former name of Kisangani.
- stanniferous — containing tin; tin-bearing
- star jasmine — a shrubby, evergreen vine, Trachelospermum jasminoides, of the dogbane family, native to China, having small clusters of fragrant, white flowers, often cultivated as an ornamental.
- star network — a circuit with three or more branches all of which have one common terminal.
- starchedness — the condition or quality of being starched
- state prison — a prison maintained by a state for the confinement of felons.
- statesperson — a statesman or stateswoman, a respected senior politician
- stationeries — writing paper.
- stauffenberg — Claus (klaʊs), Graf von. 1907–44, German army officer, who tried to assassinate Hitler (1944). He and his fellow conspirators were executed
- stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
- steady-going — steadfast; faithful; unchanging: steady-going service to the cause of justice.