12-letter words containing s, i, t, e, l
- reassimilate — to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb: He assimilated many new experiences on his European trip.
- recalibrates — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
- rectirostral — (of a bird) having a straight bill.
- reenlistment — an act of reenlisting.
- registerable — a book in which records of acts, events, names, etc., are kept.
- reichsthaler — a silver thaler of Germany, originally issued in 1566; rix-dollar.
- reillustrate — to furnish (a book, magazine, etc.) with drawings, pictures, or other artwork intended for explanation, elucidation, or adornment.
- reinstalment — a further or new instalment
- relationless — having no family relations
- relationship — a connection, association, or involvement.
- relativeness — the state or fact of being relative.
- relativistic — of or relating to relativity or relativism.
- resolutioner — a person joining in or subscribing to a resolution.
- respectively — in precisely the order given; sequentially.
- restrainable — to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
- retropulsion — an abnormal tendency to walk backwards: a symptom of Parkinson's disease
- retropulsive — of or relating to retropulsion
- rheumatismal — of or relating to rheumatism
- rimmed steel — a low-carbon steel containing enough iron oxide so that there is continuous generation of carbon monoxide during solidification.
- 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.
- rumble strip — one of a series of rough or slightly raised strips of pavement on a highway, intended to slow down the speed of vehicles, as before a toll booth.
- 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
- schindyletic — relating to the joint in which one bone is received into the cleft or slit of another bone
- 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.
- scribblement — a scribble