12-letter words containing s, t, a, r, l
- supraglottal — situated above the glottis
- supranatural — beyond what is natural; supernatural.
- supraorbital — situated above the eye socket.
- supravitally — in a supravital manner
- surmountable — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
- surrealistic — of, relating to, or characteristic of surrealism; surreal.
- survival kit — Military. a package containing medical supplies, rations, and other vital equipment for use by a person forced to land in or parachute into the ocean, jungle, or other isolated or hostile territory.
- swash letter — an ornamental italic capital letter having a flourish extending beyond the body of the type.
- sweater girl — a young woman with a shapely bosom, especially one who wears tight sweaters.
- symbololatry — the worship of symbols
- tapsalteerie — topsy-turvy.
- taramasalata — a Greek dip or paste of smoked carp roe combined with milk, bread crumbs, lemon juice, and olive oil.
- tattersall's — a pattern of squares formed by colored crossbars on a solid-color, usually light background.
- telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
- telegraphese — a style of writing or speaking distinguished by the omissions, abbreviations, and combinations that are characteristic of telegrams, as in “ expect arrive six evening. ”.
- teleosaurian — of or relating to the teleosaur
- telesoftware — the transmission of computer programs on a teletext system
- tenuirostral — pertaining to a group of birds Tenuirostres which have slender bills
- thalassocrat — a nation that has dominion over the seas.
- the populars — cheap newspapers with mass circulation; the popular press
- the silurian — the Silurian period or rock system
- theologaster — a person who pretends to be a theologian; a shallow or quack theologian
- thermalgesia — pain caused by heat.
- thermostable — capable of being subjected to a moderate degree of heat without loss of characteristic properties, as certain toxins and enzymes (opposed to thermolabile).
- thrash metal — a type of very fast, very loud rock music that combines elements of heavy metal and punk rock
- thrust fault — a low-angle reverse fault produced in rocks subjected to thrust.
- thunderflash — a pyrotechnic device which is noisy, but not dangerous, and which is used in military exercises
- time-release — timed-release.
- to draw lots — If people draw lots to decide who will do something, they each take a piece of paper from a container. One or more pieces of paper is marked, and the people who take marked pieces are chosen.
- toga virilis — the white toga assumed by boys in ancient Rome at the end of their 14th year.
- torts lawyer — a lawyer who specializes in tort cases
- trace fossil — a fossilized track, trail, burrow, boring, or other structure in sedimentary rock that records the presence or behavior of the organism that made it.
- trachybasalt — a fine-grained volcanic rock containing sanidine and calcic plagioclase.
- trade school — a high school giving instruction chiefly in the skilled trades.
- tradespeople — people engaged in trade, esp shopkeepers
- tragicalness — the quality or state of being tragic
- tralaticious — transferred or passed down
- trans female — a person who was born male but whose gender identity is female.
- trans-sexual — a person having a strong desire to assume the physical characteristics and gender role of the opposite sex.
- transannular — of or relating to tautomerism in cyclic compounds that is characterized by the migration of an atom or group from one position in the ring to another.
- transcranial — across or through the skull
- transdialect — to translate (speech, writing, etc.) into a different dialect.
- transelement — to change the elements of; transmute.
- transferable — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
- transilience — leaping or passing from one thing or state to another.
- transitional — movement, passage, or change from one position, state, stage, subject, concept, etc., to another; change: the transition from adolescence to adulthood.
- transitively — Grammar. having the nature of a transitive verb.
- translatable — to turn from one language into another or from a foreign language into one's own: to translate Spanish.
- transleithan — beyond the river Leitha, which once formed part of the boundary between Austria and Hungary
- translucence — permitting light to pass through but diffusing it so that persons, objects, etc., on the opposite side are not clearly visible: Frosted window glass is translucent but not transparent.