12-letter words containing s, i, t, e, l
- star thistle — any of several naturalized Eurasian plants of the genus Centaurea, especially C. calcitrapa, having purplish, spiny flower heads.
- state police — a police force under state authority rather than under the authority of a city or county in the state.
- statute mile — mile (def 1).
- stealthiness — done, characterized, or acting by stealth; furtive: stealthy footsteps.
- steam boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
- steam-boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
- steel guitar — an acoustic, handheld guitar having a metal resonator and producing a wailing, variable sound.
- steerability — to guide the course of (something in motion) by a rudder, helm, wheel, etc.: to steer a bicycle.
- stegophilist — a person who enjoys climbing up the outside of buildings
- stellar wind — the radial outflow of ionized gas from a star.
- stelliferous — having or abounding with stars.
- stem reptile — any member of the extinct order Cotylosauria, comprising heavy-bodied, splay-limbed, plant-eating reptiles that arose during the Carboniferous Period and that are considered to include the ancestors of all other reptiles.
- stephenville — a town in central Texas.
- stereocilium — any of the long, flexible microvilli that superficially resemble cilia and occur as a brush border or series of tufts on the surface of various epithelial tissues.
- sterlingness — the state of being sterling or having the quality of sterling
- steubenville — a city in E Ohio, on the Ohio River.
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- stigmasterol — a crystalline, water-insoluble steroid, C 2 9 H 4 8 O, present in soybeans or calabar beans, used chiefly as a raw material in the manufacture of progesterone.
- stipulaceous — of, relating to, having, resembling, or living on stipules
- stitch wheel — a notched wheel used by a harness maker to mark out the spacing for stitching
- stockingless — not wearing or having stockings
- stone circle — a circle of standing stones erected in prehistoric times
- stonewalling — the act of stalling, evading, or filibustering, especially to avoid revealing politically embarrassing information.
- stool pigeon — a pigeon used as a decoy.
- storytelling — the telling or writing of stories.
- strait-laced — excessively strict in conduct or morality; puritanical; prudish: strait-laced censors.
- strata title — a system of registered ownership of space in multistorey buildings, to be equivalent to the ownership of the land of a single-storey building
- straticulate — made up of or arranged in thin layers.
- streamlining — a teardrop line of contour offering the least possible resistance to a current of air, water, etc.
- street child — Street children are homeless children who live outdoors in a city and live by begging or stealing.
- streptolysin — a type of hemolysin produced by certain species of streptococcus.
- stretch limo — A stretch limo is a very long and luxurious car in which a rich, famous, or important person is driven somewhere.
- stretch mill — a mill for rolling and stretching seamless tubes, the rolls of each successive stand operating more quickly than those of the preceding.
- strike fault — a fault that trends parallel to the strike of the strata that it offsets.
- strike lucky — If you strike lucky or strike it lucky, you have some good luck.
- strike plate — strike (def 67).
- stringhalted — afflicted with stringhalt
- stringholder — an oblong piece of wood at the lower end of the body of a viol or other stringed instrument to which the strings are attached.
- strobe light — a device for studying the motion of a body, especially a body in rapid revolution or vibration, by making the motion appear to slow down or stop, as by periodically illuminating the body or viewing it through widely spaced openings in a revolving disk.
- strobe-light — a device for studying the motion of a body, especially a body in rapid revolution or vibration, by making the motion appear to slow down or stop, as by periodically illuminating the body or viewing it through widely spaced openings in a revolving disk.
- stromatolite — a laminated calcareous fossil structure built by marine algae and having a rounded or columnar form.
- strongsville — a town in N Ohio.
- strophiolate — having a strophiole
- stud welding — the semiautomatic welding of a stud or similar piece of metal to a flat part, usually by means of an electric arc
- student file — a file containing information about each student in a school, college, etc, such as demographic information and information about grades, etc
- stupefyingly — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
- subalternity — lower in rank; subordinate: a subaltern employee.
- subcelestial — being beneath the heavens; terrestrial.
- subduplicate — of the square root of ratios
- subeditorial — of or relating to a subeditor, the work of a subeditor or a subeditorship