12-letter words containing s, t, a, r, c
- spectatorial — a person who looks on or watches; onlooker; observer.
- spectrograph — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
- speculatrice — a female speculator
- spermaphytic — able to produce seeds
- spermaticide — spermicide.
- spermatocele — a swelling of the testicle
- spermatocide — spermicide.
- spermatocyte — a male germ cell (primary spermatocyte) that gives rise by meiosis to a pair of haploid cells (secondary spermatocytes) that give rise in turn to spermatids.
- sphericality — the state of being a sphere
- sphincterial — relating to a sphincter
- sphragistics — the scientific study of seals or signet rings.
- spirochaetal — resulting from spirochaetes
- sport jacket — A sport jacket is the same as a sport coat.
- sportscaster — A sportscaster is a radio or television broadcaster who describes or comments on sporting events.
- spring catch — a catch for an interior or cabinet door that has a bolt operated by a spring.
- squash court — an enclosed court used in the game of squash
- squattocracy — squatters collectively, regarded as rich and influential
- st. lawrence — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
- stage-struck — obsessed with the desire to become an actor or actress.
- stalactiform — resembling or shaped like a stalactite.
- star chamber — a former court of inquisitorial and criminal jurisdiction in England that sat without a jury and that became noted for its arbitrary methods and severe punishments, abolished 1641.
- star cluster — a number of stars of common origin held together as a group by gravitational attraction. Compare globular cluster, open cluster, stellar association.
- star-crossed — thwarted or opposed by the stars; ill-fated: star-crossed lovers.
- starch syrup — glucose (def 2).
- starch-syrup — a sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , having several optically different forms, the common dextrorotatory form (dextroglucose, or -glucose) occurring in many fruits, animal tissues and fluids, etc., and having a sweetness about one half that of ordinary sugar, and the rare levorotatory form (levoglucose, or -glucose) not naturally occurring.
- starchedness — the condition or quality of being starched
- stark effect — Physics. (often lowercase) the splitting into two or more components of the spectral lines of atoms in an electric field.
- starter pack — a pack containing basic equipment or information
- state church — established church.
- state secret — an official secret
- stated clerk — an administrative official in the Presbyterian Church and certain other Protestant churches
- static water — water collected and stored in reservoirs, tanks, etc., as for urban use.
- stearic acid — a colorless, waxlike, sparingly water-soluble, odorless solid, C 1 8 H 3 6 O 2 , the most common fatty acid, occurring as the glyceride in tallow and other animal fats and in some animal oils: used chiefly in the manufacture of soaps, stearates, candles, cosmetics, and in medicine in suppositories and pill coatings.
- stegocarpous — (of a moss) belonging to the division Stegocarpi, having an operculate capsule
- stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
- stercoranism — the belief that the consecrated Eucharistic elements, the bread and wine, are subject to decay and pass through the body like other ingested things
- stercoranist — a person who believes in stercoranism
- stereoacuity — the ability of a person to see objects as separate entities along a range of distances
- stereocamera — a stereoscopic camera.
- stereoptican — a projector usually consisting of two complete lanterns arranged so that one picture appears to dissolve while the next is forming.
- stereotactic — movement of an organism in response to contact with a solid.
- stern chaser — a cannon mounted at or near the stern of a sailing ship, facing aft.
- stern-chaser — a cannon mounted at or near the stern of a sailing ship, facing aft.
- sternocostal — of, relating to, or situated between the sternum and ribs.
- stick around — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- stock market — a particular market where stocks and bonds are traded; stock exchange.
- stomach worm — a nematode, Haemonchus contortus, parasitic in the stomach of sheep, cattle, and related animals.
- storage cell — a cell whose energy can be renewed by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to that of the flow of current generated by the cell.
- storm cellar — a cellar or underground chamber for refuge during violent storms; cyclone cellar.