12-letter words containing s, t, a, u, r, e
- sharp tongue — If you say that someone has a sharp tongue, you are critical of the fact that they say things which are unkind though often clever.
- shuttlecraft — space shuttle.
- sitka spruce — a spruce, Picea sitchensis, of western North America, having long, silvery-white needles, grown as an ornamental.
- slate quarry — a quarry where slate is mined
- slaughterman — a person employed to kill animals in a slaughterhouse
- slaughterous — murderous; destructive.
- slide guitar — bottleneck (def 3).
- software bus — A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.
- somatopleure — the double layer formed by the association of the upper layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the overlying ectoderm, functioning in the formation of the body wall and amnion.
- sought after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
- sought-after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
- south korean — a country in E Asia: formed 1948 after the division of the former country of Korea at 38° N. 36,600 sq. mi. (94,795 sq. km). Capital: Seoul. Compare Korea.
- south orange — a city in NE New Jersey.
- southeastern — from the south east
- speculatrice — a female speculator
- spiritualize — to make spiritual.
- splatterpunk — a form of fiction featuring extremely graphic violence.
- square meter — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one meter on each side. 2 , sq. m. Abbreviation: m.
- square-built — sturdy and strong-looking
- stage-struck — obsessed with the desire to become an actor or actress.
- stand surety — to act as a surety
- stanniferous — containing tin; tin-bearing
- 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-studded — lighted by or full of stars; bright: a star-studded night.
- state church — established church.
- stauffenberg — Claus (klaʊs), Graf von. 1907–44, German army officer, who tried to assassinate Hitler (1944). He and his fellow conspirators were executed
- stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
- steel guitar — an acoustic, handheld guitar having a metal resonator and producing a wailing, variable sound.
- stegocarpous — (of a moss) belonging to the division Stegocarpi, having an operculate capsule
- stegosaurian — having the characteristics of a stegosaur
- stepdaughter — a daughter of one's husband or wife by a previous marriage.
- stereoacuity — the ability of a person to see objects as separate entities along a range of distances
- sternutation — the act of sneezing.
- sternutatory — Also, sternutative. causing or tending to cause sneezing.
- stirrup-vase — a Mycenaean vase having a spherical body, a spout on the shoulder, and a handle, curving across the top, supported by a solid conical neck.
- storage tube — an electron tube in which information is stored as charges for a predetermined time
- storage unit — rented space to store items
- stouthearted — brave and resolute; dauntless.
- strain gauge — Geology. a type of extensometer designed for geophysical use.
- straticulate — made up of or arranged in thin layers.
- street value — monetary worth
- strike fault — a fault that trends parallel to the strike of the strata that it offsets.
- struma-river — a river in S Europe, flowing SE through SW Bulgaria and NE Greece into the Aegean. 225 miles (362 km) long.
- student card — a card verifying somebody's identity as a university student and entitling them to services, discounts, etc
- stun grenade — a nonlethal grenade which is used to disturb the senses of enemies by its loud noise and its bright light
- styracaceous — belonging to the Styracaceae, the storax family of plants.
- sub-attorney — a lawyer; attorney-at-law.
- sub-mortgage — a conveyance of an interest in property as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
- subaggregate — a subtotal
- subalternant — a universal in relation to a subaltern