12-letter words containing s, u, l, i
- single-issue — pertaining or devoted to one public issue only, especially a political one: single-issue voters.
- sinusoidally — Mathematics. of or relating to a sinusoid.
- sitting bull — 1834–90, American Indian warrior: leader of the Hunkpapa; victor at Little Bighorn, 1876.
- sixth column — the persons residing in a country at war who are devoted to aiding the fifth column in its activities, especially by lowering morale, spreading rumors, etc.
- slide guitar — bottleneck (def 3).
- sliding rule — (formerly) a slide rule.
- slip through — be undetected
- slopping out — In prisons where prisoners have to use buckets as toilets, slopping out is the practice in which they empty the buckets.
- slow-burning — (of combustible material) burning relatively slowly
- slubberingly — in a slubbering or slovenly manner
- slumberingly — in a slumbering manner
- slumpflation — a situation in which economic depression is combined with increasing inflation
- smilacaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Smilacaceae, a temperate and tropical family of monocotyledonous flowering plants, most of which are climbing shrubs with prickly stems: includes smilax
- soboliferous — bearing or producing soboles
- sodium light — the light produced by a sodium lamp
- solar radius — the unit, equivalent to the radius of the sun, in which the radii of stars and other celestial objects are given.
- solicitously — anxious or concerned (usually followed by about, for, etc., or a clause): solicitous about a person's health.
- solid figure — a figure that has three dimensions
- solifluction — creep (def 22a).
- soliloquised — to utter a soliloquy; talk to oneself.
- soliloquizes — to utter a soliloquy; talk to oneself.
- solitudinous — the state of being or living alone; seclusion: to enjoy one's solitude.
- solution set — the roots or values satisfying a given equation or inequality, or a set of simultaneous equations or inequalities
- somnambulism — sleepwalking.
- somnambulist — sleepwalking.
- somniloquism — sleep-talking
- somniloquize — to talk in one's sleep
- soufflé dish — A dish for making souffles
- south euclid — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- south island — the largest island of New Zealand. 58,093 sq. mi. (150,460 sq. km).
- special jury — struck jury.
- special rule — a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.: the rules of chess.
- speculatrice — a female speculator
- spinal fluid — cerebrospinal fluid
- spinulescent — producing spines
- spiral-bound — having a spiral binding.
- spiritualism — the belief or doctrine that the spirits of the dead, surviving after the mortal life, can and do communicate with the living, especially through a person (a medium) particularly susceptible to their influence.
- spiritualist — an adherent of spiritualism.
- spirituality — the quality or fact of being spiritual.
- spiritualize — to make spiritual.
- spitefulness — full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: a spiteful child.
- spoil ground — an area within a body of water, especially in the sea, where dredged material is deposited.
- spongicolous — relating to the skeleton of some marine animals
- sporangiolum — a small sporangium
- sprightfully — in a sprightful manner
- sputteringly — in a sputtering manner
- square-built — sturdy and strong-looking
- squaresville — a thing, place, etc., regarded as conventional, unfashionable, or conservative.
- squirrelfish — any of several brightly colored, nocturnal fishes of the family Holocentridae, inhabiting shallow waters of tropical reefs, especially the reddish Holocentrus ascensionis of the West Indies, armed with sharp spines and scales.
- stanislaus i — (Stanislaus Leszczynski) 1677–1766, king of Poland 1704–09, 1733–35.