12-letter words containing t, e, r, n, a, s
- stand surety — to act as a surety
- standardbred — one of an American breed of trotting and pacing horses used chiefly for harness racing.
- standardized — to bring to or make of an established standard size, weight, quality, strength, or the like: to standardize manufactured parts.
- standardless — having no standard or standards
- stanniferous — containing tin; tin-bearing
- star jasmine — a shrubby, evergreen vine, Trachelospermum jasminoides, of the dogbane family, native to China, having small clusters of fragrant, white flowers, often cultivated as an ornamental.
- star network — a circuit with three or more branches all of which have one common terminal.
- starchedness — the condition or quality of being starched
- 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.
- stauffenberg — Claus (klaʊs), Graf von. 1907–44, German army officer, who tried to assassinate Hitler (1944). He and his fellow conspirators were executed
- stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
- steam-driven — powered by steam
- steering arm — the part of a vehicle's chassis that directs the input from the steering box
- steganograph — a piece of coded writing; cipher
- stegosaurian — having the characteristics of a stegosaur
- steinamanger — German name of Szombathely.
- stellar wind — the radial outflow of ionized gas from a star.
- 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
- stercoranist — a person who believes in stercoranism
- stereoptican — a projector usually consisting of two complete lanterns arranged so that one picture appears to dissolve while the next is forming.
- stern chaser — a cannon mounted at or near the stern of a sailing ship, facing aft.
- stern-chaser — a cannon mounted at or near the stern of a sailing ship, facing aft.
- sternocostal — of, relating to, or situated between the sternum and ribs.
- sternutation — the act of sneezing.
- sternutatory — Also, sternutative. causing or tending to cause sneezing.
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- stone marten — a marten, Mustela foina, of Europe and Asia, having a white mark on the throat and breast.
- stonebreaker — a person that breaks up stone
- stonyhearted — unfeeling; pitiless; cruel
- storage ring — a device for storing charged particles fed from an accelerator, consisting of a set of magnets placed in a ring and adjusted to keep the particles circulating until they are used.
- storage tank — A storage tank is a large vessel for storing oil, gas, and other petrochemical products.
- storage unit — rented space to store items
- straightneck — a variety of summer squash related to the crookneck but not having a recurved neck.
- straightness — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- strain gauge — Geology. a type of extensometer designed for geophysical use.
- strandedness — composed of a specified number or kind of strands (usually used in combination): a five-stranded rope.
- strange star — a hypothetical celestial object that is intermediate in density between a neutron star and a black hole, possibly the remnant of a massive neutron star with all particles reduced to strange quarks.
- stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
- strategising — to make up or determine strategy; plan.
- strategizing — to make up or determine strategy; plan.
- stratotanker — an aircraft that can refuel other aircrafts at high speeds and altitudes
- 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 hands — to show agreement by clasping hands