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12-letter words containing s, t, e, a, r, i

  • strain gauge — Geology. a type of extensometer designed for geophysical use.
  • strait-laced — excessively strict in conduct or morality; puritanical; prudish: strait-laced censors.
  • straitjacket — a garment made of strong material and designed to bind the arms, as of a violently disoriented person.
  • 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
  • strategising — to make up or determine strategy; plan.
  • strategizing — to make up or determine strategy; plan.
  • 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.
  • strepitation — the quality or state of being strepitant
  • stride piano — a style of jazz piano playing in which the right hand plays the melody while the left hand plays a single bass note or octave on the strong beat and a chord on the weak beat, developed in Harlem during the 1920s, partly from ragtime piano playing.
  • strike fault — a fault that trends parallel to the strike of the strata that it offsets.
  • strike hands — to show agreement by clasping hands
  • strike plate — strike (def 67).
  • stringhalted — afflicted with stringhalt
  • strip-search — to search (a suspect who has been required to remove all clothing) especially for concealed weapons, contraband, or evidence of drug abuse.
  • striped bass — an important American game fish, Morone saxatilis, having blackish stripes along each side.
  • stromatolite — a laminated calcareous fossil structure built by marine algae and having a rounded or columnar form.
  • strontianite — a mineral, strontium carbonate, SrCO 3 , occurring in radiating, fibrous, or granular aggregates and crystals, varying from white to yellow and pale green: a minor ore of strontium.
  • strophiolate — having a strophiole
  • struma-river — a river in S Europe, flowing SE through SW Bulgaria and NE Greece into the Aegean. 225 miles (362 km) long.
  • subalternity — lower in rank; subordinate: a subaltern employee.
  • subeditorial — of or relating to a subeditor, the work of a subeditor or a subeditorship
  • suberization — the impregnation of cell walls with suberin, causing the formation of cork.
  • subminiature — subminiature camera.
  • subordinated — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • supercabinet — a specially-formed cabinet, a select or powerful group of political ministers (cabinet)
  • supercapital — a member situated between a capital and the spring of an arch, as a dosseret.
  • superelastic — capable of returning to its original length, shape, etc., after being stretched, deformed, compressed, or expanded: an elastic waistband; elastic fiber.
  • supergravity — a hypothetical symmetry among groups of particles containing fermions and bosons, especially in theories of gravity (supergravity) that unify electromagnetism, the weak force, and the strong force with gravity into a single unified force.
  • superheating — Superheating of steam is raising its temperature to well above boiling point.
  • superpatriot — a person who is patriotic to an extreme.
  • superplastic — (of some metals and alloys) having the capacity to undergo extreme deformation at high temperatures.
  • superquality — above-average quality
  • superstation — an independent television station whose signal is transmitted by satellite to subscribers on a cable system.
  • surrealistic — of, relating to, or characteristic of surrealism; surreal.
  • sweater girl — a young woman with a shapely bosom, especially one who wears tight sweaters.
  • tapsalteerie — topsy-turvy.
  • tardenoisian — of or referring to a Mesolithic culture characterized by small flint instruments
  • taskmistress — a woman whose function it is to assign tasks, especially burdensome ones, to others.
  • tautomerizes — to undergo tautomerism.
  • tax increase — an increase in the amount of tax that people and companies are obliged to pay
  • tea strainer — small sieve for straining tea leaves
  • tear-stained — marked or wet with tears: a tear-stained letter.
  • teleosaurian — of or relating to the teleosaur
  • tenuirostral — pertaining to a group of birds Tenuirostres which have slender bills
  • tergiversate — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
  • testificator — a person who witnesses
  • thames river — a river in S England, flowing E through London to the North Sea. 209 miles (336 km) long.
  • the fair sex — women collectively
  • the jurassic — the Jurassic period or rock system
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