12-letter words containing s, t, r, a, o, e
- soft-hearted — very sympathetic or responsive; generous in spirit: a soft-hearted judge.
- software bus — A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.
- solar system — the sun together with all the planets and other bodies that revolve around it.
- solenogaster — any of a group of wormlike mollusks, class Solenogastres (formerly Aplacophora), inhabiting deep ocean layers and having fine limy spicules on the covering mantle.
- solitariness — alone; without companions; unattended: a solitary passer-by.
- solitary bee — any of numerous bees, as the leaf-cutting bees, that do not live in a community.
- 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.
- sooner state — Oklahoma (used as a nickname).
- sorbefacient — inducing absorption
- sorosilicate — any of the silicates in which each silicate tetrahedron shares one of its four oxygen atoms with a neighboring tetrahedron, the ratio of silicon to oxygen being two to seven.
- 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
- spatter cone — a low, steep-sided volcanic cone built up of droplets or blobs of lava erupted from a fissure or vent.
- special sort — a character, such as an accented letter, that is not a usual member of any font
- spectatorial — a person who looks on or watches; onlooker; observer.
- spectrograph — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
- spermatocele — a swelling of the testicle
- spermatocide — spermicide.
- spermatocyte — a male germ cell (primary spermatocyte) that gives rise by meiosis to a pair of haploid cells (secondary spermatocytes) that give rise in turn to spermatids.
- spermatozoid — a motile male gamete produced in an antheridium.
- spermatozoon — one of the minute, usually actively motile gametes in semen, which serve to fertilize the ovum; a mature male reproductive cell.
- spirochaetal — resulting from spirochaetes
- spit-roasted — cooked on a spit
- sport jacket — A sport jacket is the same as a sport coat.
- sportscaster — A sportscaster is a radio or television broadcaster who describes or comments on sporting events.
- stakeholders — the holder of the stakes of a wager.
- stanniferous — containing tin; tin-bearing
- star network — a circuit with three or more branches all of which have one common terminal.
- star-crossed — thwarted or opposed by the stars; ill-fated: star-crossed lovers.
- starter home — A starter home is a small, new house or flat which is cheap enough for people who are buying their first home to afford.
- state flower — a flower chosen as an official symbol of a U.S. state.
- state of war — a condition marked by armed conflict between or among states, existing whether or not war has been declared formally by any of the belligerents.
- state prison — a prison maintained by a state for the confinement of felons.
- statesperson — a statesman or stateswoman, a respected senior politician
- stationeries — writing paper.
- stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
- steam boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
- steam-boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
- steam-roller — a heavy steam-powered vehicle having a roller for crushing, compacting, or leveling materials used for a road or the like.
- steatorrhoea — the presence of excess fat in the stools, usually caused by disease of the pancreas or intestine, and characterized by chronic diarrhea and weight loss.
- steganograph — a piece of coded writing; cipher
- stegocarpous — (of a moss) belonging to the division Stegocarpi, having an operculate capsule
- stegosaurian — having the characteristics of a stegosaur
- stenographer — a person who specializes in taking dictation in shorthand.
- stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
- stenothermal — (of animals or plants) able to exist only within a narrow range of temperature
- stercoranism — the belief that the consecrated Eucharistic elements, the bread and wine, are subject to decay and pass through the body like other ingested things