12-letter words containing t, o, a, d, s, n
- scot and lot — British History. a municipal tax assessed proportionately upon the members of a community.
- scott domain — An algebraic, boundedly complete, complete partial order. Often simply called a domain.
- scout around — search
- section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
- semi-dormant — lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid: The lecturer's sudden shout woke the dormant audience.
- semidominant — producing an intermediate, heterozygous phenotype
- short-handed — not having the usual or necessary number of workers, helpers, etc.
- shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
- slide-action — (of a rifle or shotgun) having a lever that when slid back and forth ejects the empty case and cocks and reloads the piece.
- snake doctor — South Midland and Southern U.S. a dragonfly.
- snotty-faced — having visible nasal mucus on the face
- soft landing — space vehicle
- sonata-rondo — a musical form combining characteristics of both the sonata form and the rondo.
- sorting yard — sorting tracks.
- south island — the largest island of New Zealand. 58,093 sq. mi. (150,460 sq. km).
- speedboating — the act, practice, or sport of traveling in a speedboat.
- staddlestone — (formerly) one of several supports for a hayrick, consisting of a truncated conical stone surmounted by a flat circular stone
- stand a show — to have a chance, esp. a remote one
- stand in for — to substitute for
- stand up for — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
- stand-offish — If you say that someone is stand-offish, you mean that they behave in a formal and rather unfriendly way.
- station days — days on which ceremonies are held in station churches
- steady-going — steadfast; faithful; unchanging: steady-going service to the cause of justice.
- stick around — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- stone-washed — Stone-washed jeans are jeans which have been specially washed with small pieces of stone so that when you buy them they are fairly pale and soft.
- stonyhearted — unfeeling; pitiless; cruel
- stranglehold — Wrestling. an illegal hold by which an opponent's breath is choked off.
- 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.
- student loan — A student loan is a government loan that is available to students at a college or university in order to help them pay their expenses.
- subdeaconate — subdiaconate.
- subdiaconate — the office or dignity of a subdeacon.
- subordinated — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- subordinator — a conjunction introducing a subordinate clause, as when in They were glad when I finished.
- support band — a band, pop group, rock group, etc not topping the bill
- surinam toad — a South American aquatic frog, Pipa pipa, the female of which carries the eggs and tadpoles in small depressions on its back.
- sweet almond — the nutlike kernel of the fruit of either of two trees, Prunus dulcis (sweet almond) or P. dulcis amara (bitter almond) which grow in warm temperate regions.
- synarthrodia — synarthrosis.
- syndactylous — having fingers, or toes, united
- syndiotactic — (of a polymer molecule) having a regular alternation of opposite configurations at successive regularly spaced positions along the chain. See also configuration (def 4).
- tardenoisian — of or referring to a Mesolithic culture characterized by small flint instruments
- the lowlands — a low generally flat region of central Scotland, around the Forth and Clyde valleys, separating the Southern Uplands from the Highlands
- thousandfold — having a thousand elements or parts.
- tombstone ad — a boxed advertisement without artwork or illustrations, especially one announcing an issue of a stock or bond.
- tradesperson — a skilled worker
- trading post — a store established in an unsettled or thinly settled region by a trader or trading company to obtain furs and local products in exchange for supplies, clothing, other goods, or for cash.
- traditionist — a traditionalist.
- trans-jordan — an area east of the Jordan River, in SW Asia: a British mandate (1921–23); an emirate (1923–49); now the major part of the kingdom of Jordan.
- transduction — the transfer of genetic material from one cell to another by means of a virus.
- transudation — the act or process of transuding.
- trepidations — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.