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