12-letter words containing s, i, t, e, l
- service flat — an apartment with complete hotel services.
- service lift — a lift which carries heavy goods in a place of business, as for example, plates in a restaurant
- sesquialtera — a mixture stop on an organ
- setting rule — a metal strip used in the hand-setting of type in a composing stick to separate the line being set from the previous one
- severability — capability of being separated, as of a clause in an agreement
- sewing table — a worktable for holding sewing materials, often supplied with a bag or pouch for needlework.
- sextuplicate — a group, series, or set of six identical copies: The application is to be submitted in sextuplicate.
- shareability — the state or property of being able to be shared
- shield match — a cricket match for the Sheffield Shield
- shirt-lifter — a homosexual
- shirt-sleeve — not wearing a jacket; informally dressed: a shirt-sleeve mob.
- shirt-tailed — (of a garment) having a shirt-tail
- shirtsleeved — not wearing a jacket or coat
- shoot a line — to try to create a false image, as by boasting or exaggerating
- short splice — a splice used when an increased thickness of the united rope is not objectionable, made by unlaying the rope ends a certain distance, uniting them so that their strands overlap, then tucking each alternately over and under others several times.
- shut-in well — confined to one's home, a hospital, etc., as from illness.
- sialadenitis — inflammation of one or more of the salivary glands.
- sidesplitter — something that is uproariously funny, as a joke or a situation.
- sieve-plates — an elongated cell whose walls contain perforations (sieve pores) that are arranged in circumscribed areas (sieve plates) and that afford communication with similar adjacent cells.
- signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
- silent alarm — an alarm that alerts security personnel or the police without the knowledge of the intruder or criminal whose presence triggers it: The silent alarm set off a flashing light at the police station.
- silhouetting — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
- silhouettist — a creator of silhouette portraits
- silver frost — glaze (def 17).
- silver plate — thin coat of silver
- silver point — the melting point of silver, equal to 960.8°C, used as a fixed point on the international temperature scale.
- silver state — Nevada (used as a nickname).
- silver trout — a variety of cutthroat trout, Salmo clarki henshawi, having silvery coloration, inhabiting Lake Tahoe.
- silver-plate — to coat (base metal) with silver, especially by electroplating.
- silvester ii — (Gerbert) died 1003, French ecclesiastic: pope 999–1003.
- silviculture — the cultivation of forest trees; forestry.
- similarities — the state of being similar; likeness; resemblance.
- simple fruit — a fruit formed from one pistil.
- simple meter — any time signature in which the upper figure indicates two, three, or four beats per measure, as 2/8, 3/2, 4/4, etc.
- simple tense — a tense of verbs, in English and other languages, not involving the use of an auxiliary verb in addition to the main verb, as for example the past he drowned as opposed to the future he will drown
- simultaneity — existing, occurring, or operating at the same time; concurrent: simultaneous movements; simultaneous translation.
- simultaneous — existing, occurring, or operating at the same time; concurrent: simultaneous movements; simultaneous translation.
- single entry — an item noted only once.
- single track — a single pair of lines so that trains can travel in only one direction at a time
- single-digit — of or denoting a percentage smaller than ten, especially with reference to rates below that level: single-digit rates of inflation.
- single-party — of or relating to a form of government in which only a single political party constitutes the government
- single-track — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
- siphonostele — a hollow tube of vascular tissue enclosing a pith and embedded in ground tissue.
- skeletonizer — any of numerous insect species that reduce leaves to a skeleton
- skirt length — the length of someone's skirt
- slant height — (of a right circular cone) the distance from the vertex to any point on the circumference of the base.
- sleep it off — to rid oneself of the effects of some excess, overindulgence, etc., specif. of the aftereffects of drinking much alcoholic liquor, by sleeping
- slide guitar — bottleneck (def 3).
- slide-action — (of a rifle or shotgun) having a lever that when slid back and forth ejects the empty case and cocks and reloads the piece.
- sliding seat — a rower's seat that rides on wheels in metal tracks fastened to the boat's frame, allowing the seat to slide back and forth, thereby tapping the rower's leg strength to maximize the stroke.