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12-letter words containing t, a, r, s, n

  • resupination — a resupinate condition.
  • resyndicated — a group of individuals or organizations combined or making a joint effort to undertake some specific duty or carry out specific transactions or negotiations: The local furniture store is individually owned, but is part of a buying syndicate.
  • retainership — the condition of being a retainer or of having retainers.
  • retranscribe — to make a written copy, especially a typewritten copy, of (dictated material, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material).
  • revisitation — the act of visiting.
  • rhadamanthus — Classical Mythology. a son of Zeus and Europa, rewarded for the justice he exemplified on earth by being made, after his death, a judge in the Underworld, where he served with his brothers Minos and Aeacus.
  • rhadamanthys — Classical Mythology. a son of Zeus and Europa, rewarded for the justice he exemplified on earth by being made, after his death, a judge in the Underworld, where he served with his brothers Minos and Aeacus.
  • roasting ear — an ear of sweet corn suitable for roasting while still in the husk.
  • roman strike — a striking mechanism of c1700, giving the equivalent in tones of Roman numerals, a bell of one pitch striking once for each number I, a bell of another pitch striking once for V, twice for X.
  • rooseveltian — of, pertaining to, advocating, or following the principles, views, or policies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt or of Theodore Roosevelt.
  • roseate tern — a seabird, Sterna dougallii, of the tern family Sternidae
  • royal assent — (in Britain) the formal signing of an act of Parliament by the sovereign, by which it becomes law
  • royal tennis — court tennis.
  • runaway star — a star with an unusually high proper motion, believed to result from its ejection from a nearby binary system when its companion star underwent a supernova explosion.
  • rush matting — a floor covering made from rushes (plants of the genus Juncus)
  • rutlandshire — a former county, now part of Leicestershire, in central England.
  • saccharinity — of the nature of or resembling that of sugar: a powdery substance with a saccharine taste.
  • sacramentals — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
  • sacramentary — a sacramentarian
  • saint helier — a British island in the English Channel: the largest of the Channel Islands. 44 sq. mi. (116 sq. km). Capital: St. Helier.
  • saint hubert — a borough in S Quebec, Canada, just E of Montreal.
  • saint jerome — Saint (Eusebius Hieronymus) a.d. c340–420, Christian ascetic and Biblical scholar: chief preparer of the Vulgate version of the Bible.
  • saint martha — a sister of Mary and Lazarus, who lived at Bethany and ministered to Jesus (Luke 10:38–42). Feast day: July 29 or June 4
  • saint martin — Saint, died a.d. 655, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 649–655.
  • saint moritz — a resort town in SE Switzerland: a popular center for winter sports. 6037 feet (1840 meters) high.
  • saint-brieuc — a department in NW France. 2787 sq. mi. (7220 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Brieuc.
  • saint-hubert — town in S Quebec, Canada: part of metropolitan Montreal: pop. 77,000
  • saint-pierre — two small groups of islands off the S coast of Newfoundland: an overseas territory of France; important base for fishing. 3 sq. mi. (240 sq. km). Capital: St. Pierre.
  • saint-tropez — a town in SE France, on the French Riviera: beach resort.
  • salad burnet — a plant, Poterium sanguisorba, of the rose family, native to Eurasia, having rounded heads of small, greenish flowers in short spikes and edible leaves.
  • salmon trout — a European trout, Salmo trutta.
  • saltpetreman — a supplier of saltpetre
  • salutatorian — (in some U.S. schools and colleges) the student ranking second highest in the graduating class, who delivers the salutatory at commencement.
  • samaritanism — an inhabitant of Samaria.
  • sand cricket — Jerusalem cricket.
  • 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.
  • sandrocottus — Greek name of Chandragupta.
  • sanitariness — of or relating to health or the conditions affecting health, especially with reference to cleanliness, precautions against disease, etc.
  • sankt moritz — German name of St. Moritz.
  • satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • satirization — to attack or ridicule with satire.
  • satyromaniac — a lascivious man; lecher.
  • saunteringly — in a sauntering manner
  • scarlatinoid — resembling scarlatina or its eruptions.
  • scatteration — the act of scattering.
  • scatterbrain — a person incapable of serious, connected thought.
  • scatteringly — in a scattering manner
  • scene master — (on a switchboard) a master switch that controls several lighting circuits.
  • scintigraphy — the process of producing a scintigram.
  • scintillator — a phosphor capable of producing scintillations.
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