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12-letter words containing s, o, n, a, d, l

  • old-womanish — Sometimes Offensive. having characteristics considered typical of an old woman, as excessive fussiness or timidity.
  • oldfashioned — Rare spelling of old-fashioned.
  • outlandishly — In an outlandish manner.
  • outside lane — the lane on a motorway where overtaking of other vehicles is permitted and vehicles can travel fastest
  • palindromist — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
  • personalised — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
  • personalized — customized
  • poison gland — a gland in some fish and amphibians that secretes venomous material
  • postdeadline — the time by which something must be finished or submitted; the latest time for finishing something: a five o'clock deadline.
  • postdiluvian — existing or occurring after the Biblical Flood.
  • postprandial — after a meal, especially after dinner: postprandial oratory; a postprandial brandy.
  • prodigal son — a figure in a parable of Jesus (Luke 15:11–32); a wayward son who squanders his inheritance but returns home to find that his father forgives him.
  • quadrillions — Plural form of quadrillion.
  • randallstown — a city in N Maryland, near Baltimore.
  • rhode island — US state
  • russian doll — wooden figures that nest inside one other
  • 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.
  • sailboarding — windsurfing.
  • salamandroid — an amphibian of the genus Salamandra
  • san salvador — a republic in NW Central America. 13,176 sq. mi. (34,125 sq. km). Capital: San Salvador.
  • sand-floated — noting an exterior wall finish composed of mortar rubbed with sand and floated when it has partly set.
  • sardonically — characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering: a sardonic grin.
  • scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
  • scandalously — disgraceful; shameful or shocking; improper: scandalous behavior in public.
  • scarlatinoid — resembling scarlatina or its eruptions.
  • scot and lot — British History. a municipal tax assessed proportionately upon the members of a community.
  • second-class — of a secondary class or quality.
  • self-command — self-control.
  • self-loading — noting or pertaining to an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
  • serial bonds — Serial bonds are bonds that are issued at the same time but have staggered maturity dates.
  • shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
  • signal board — a board for displaying electrically transmitted signals and indicating their source.
  • single modal — modal (def 3).
  • sinusoidally — Mathematics. of or relating to a sinusoid.
  • sleep around — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
  • 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.
  • sloped roman — a roman (vertical) typeface, usually sans serif, i.e. without the small, decorative, terminal strokes with which some typefaces are designed. The typeface is made to slope (usually to the right), but not generally to the same degree as a true italic typeface
  • small wonder — (I am) hardly surprised (that)
  • smallholding — a piece of land rented or sold to a farmer by county authorities for purposes of cultivation.
  • snow leopard — a long-haired, leopardlike feline, Panthera (Uncia) uncia, of mountain ranges of central Asia, having a relatively small head and a thick, creamy-gray coat with rosette spots: an endangered species.
  • soft landing — space vehicle
  • south island — the largest island of New Zealand. 58,093 sq. mi. (150,460 sq. km).
  • span loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
  • spiral-bound — having a spiral binding.
  • staddlestone — (formerly) one of several supports for a hayrick, consisting of a truncated conical stone surmounted by a flat circular stone
  • stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
  • student loan — A student loan is a government loan that is available to students at a college or university in order to help them pay their expenses.
  • subabdominal — below or beneath the abdomen
  • sulphadoxine — an antibiotic drug of the sulphonamide group, commonly used in combination with pyrimethamine to treat malaria, and in combination with various drugs to treat certain infections
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