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

  • salutiferous — salutary.
  • sandbox tree — a tropical American tree, Hura crepitans, of the spurge family, bearing a furrowed, roundish fruit about the size of an orange that when ripe and dry bursts with a sharp report and scatters the seeds.
  • satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • say the word — If someone says the word, they give their approval as a sign that something should start to happen.
  • scare quotes — quotation marks placed around a word or phrase to indicate that it should not be taken literally or automatically accepted as true
  • scatter plot — a graphic representation of bivariate data as a set of points in the plane that have Cartesian coordinates equal to corresponding values of the two variates.
  • scatter shot — shot prepared for a weapon having a rifled bore or barrel.
  • scatteration — the act of scattering.
  • schoolmaster — a man who presides over or teaches in a school.
  • scopes trial — John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
  • scout leader — the leader of a troop of Scouts
  • screen actor — a film actor
  • scrobiculate — furrowed or pitted.
  • sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
  • sea milkwort — a maritime plant, Glaux maritima, having small, pinkish-white flowers.
  • secobarbital — a white, odorless, slightly bitter powder, C 1 2 H 1 8 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative and hypnotic.
  • secretagogue — a substance or situation that promotes secretion.
  • section mark — section (def 16).
  • self-storage — noting or pertaining to a warehouse or other facility that rents units to people for storing personal possessions.
  • semi-dormant — lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid: The lecturer's sudden shout woke the dormant audience.
  • semitropical — subtropical.
  • senarmontite — a mineral, antimony trioxide, Sb 2 O 3 , occurring in pearl-colored isometric octahedrons: a dimorph of valentinite.
  • separate out — filter, sift
  • sepher torah — a scroll of the Torah, typically of parchment, from which the designated Parashah is chanted or read on the prescribed days.
  • seronegative — showing no significant level of serum antibodies, or other immunologic marker in the serum, that would indicate previous exposure to the infectious agent being tested.
  • seroreaction — any reaction occurring in serum.
  • serotaxonomy — the study of the taxonomy of proteins using serological methods
  • share option — A share option is an opportunity for the employees of a company to buy shares at a special price.
  • 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.
  • sharpshooter — a person skilled in shooting, especially with a rifle.
  • shatter cone — a cone-shaped fragment of rock, probably formed by violent shock waves, as from meteoritic impact or atomic explosions
  • shatterproof — designed or made to resist shattering: shatterproof glass in automobile windows.
  • sheet anchor — Nautical. a large anchor used only in cases of emergency.
  • shoe leather — treated animal skin used for shoes
  • shop steward — commerce: union rep
  • shore patrol — (often initial capital letters) members of an organization in the U.S. Navy having police duties similar to those performed by military police. Abbreviation: SP.
  • short-change — to give less than the correct change to.
  • short-haired — having short hair
  • short-handed — not having the usual or necessary number of workers, helpers, etc.
  • shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
  • shower stall — an individual compartment or self-contained unit, having a single shower and accommodating one person.
  • signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
  • skateboarder — person who rides skateboard
  • skeleton car — a freight car essentially consisting of a central longitudinal girder fastened to the trucks, sometimes supplemented by one or more pairs of cross cantilevers: used for carrying logs or containers.
  • slaughterous — murderous; destructive.
  • small stores — personal items, such as clothing, sold aboard ship or at a naval base
  • smart cookie — intelligent or sharp-witted person
  • snake doctor — South Midland and Southern U.S. a dragonfly.
  • soft chancre — chancroid.
  • soft release — a means of gradually accustoming wild animals to a new environment before releasing them into it
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