12-letter words containing sa
- monetisation — Alternative spelling of monetization.
- moralisation — Standard spelling of moralization.
- mornay sauce — a rich white sauce to which grated cheese, usually Swiss or Parmesan, and seasonings have been added
- mosaic glass — glass having a polychrome pattern made by fusing colors or variously colored canes, rods, strips, or squares together.
- mosaic image — the collective image produced by the ommatidia of a compound eye
- motor sailer — a yacht having sails and an engine as an alternative or auxiliary means of propulsion.
- motorisation — Alternative spelling of motorization.
- mutessarifat — a province governed by a mutessarif
- mwambutsa iv — 1912–77, king of Burundi 1962–66.
- nakhon sawan — a city in W central Thailand, on the Chao Phraya River.
- nasal cavity — sinus
- nasal concha — turbinate (def 4).
- nasal demons — Recognised shorthand on the Usenet group comp.std.c for any unexpected behaviour of a C compiler on encountering an undefined construct. During a discussion on that group in early 1992, a regular remarked "When the compiler encounters [a given undefined construct] it is legal for it to make demons fly out of your nose" (the implication is that the compiler may choose any arbitrarily bizarre way to interpret the code without violating the ANSI C standard). Someone else followed up with a reference to "nasal demons", which quickly became established.
- nasalization — (phonetics, uncountable) the articulation of a vowel or continuant consonant in such a way that air flows through the nose at the same time as it flows through the mouth.
- neurosarcoma — A malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor, a form of cancer of the connective tissue surrounding nerves.
- nilo-saharan — a family of African languages, including the Central and Eastern Sudanic groups as well as Kanuri, Songhai, and other languages, spoken from the Sahara southward to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania.
- nitrosamines — Plural form of nitrosamine.
- noble savage — primitive indigenous person
- non-disabled — physically or mentally impaired, injured, or incapacitated.
- non-erasable — to rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, etc.; efface.
- non-partisan — A person or group that is non-partisan does not support or help a particular political party or group.
- non-sanction — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- noncausative — Not causative.
- nonuniversal — Not universal.
- nonversation — A meaningless conversation.
- novelisation — Alternative spelling of novelization.
- nuisance tax — a tax paid in small but frequent amounts, usually by consumers.
- nuri as-said — 1888–1958, Iraqi soldier and statesman: prime minister of Iraq 14 times between 1930 and 1958: he died during a military coup
- opposability — capable of being placed opposite to something else: the opposable thumb of primates.
- opsonisation — Alternative form of opsonization.
- optimisation — Alternative spelling of optimization.
- organisation — the act or process of organizing.
- osage orange — Also called bois d'arc, bowwood. a tree, Maclura pomifera, of the mulberry family, native to the south-central U.S., having hard, yellowish wood and often cultivated for hedges.
- osteosarcoma — a malignant tumor of the bone.
- oversanguine — too optimistic
- oversaturate — to cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance, through solution, chemical combination, or the like.
- oyster sauce — thick oyster-flavoured Asian relish
- paradisaical — paradisiacal.
- paraglossate — having paraglossae
- park savanna — savanna grassland scattered with trees
- partisanship — an adherent or supporter of a person, group, party, or cause, especially a person who shows a biased, emotional allegiance.
- passage hawk — a young hawk during its first migration.
- passage work — writing that is often extraneous to the thematic material of a work and is typically of a virtuosic or decorative character: passagework consisting of scales, arpeggios, trills, and double octaves.
- patron saint — a saint regarded as the special guardian of a person, group, trade, country, etc.
- phenarsazine — a type of toxin that originates from arsenic
- phrasal verb — a combination of verb and one or more adverbial or prepositional particles, as catch on, take off, bring up, or put up with, functioning as a single semantic unit and often having an idiomatic meaning that could not be predicted from the meanings of the individual parts.
- picture sash — a large window sash, as for a picture window.
- piercing saw — a small, fine-gauge saw blade with uniformly spaced, angled teeth, inserted in a jeweler's saw frame and used to cut precious metal and such soft materials as ivory and shell.
- play it safe — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- pleasantness — pleasing, agreeable, or enjoyable; giving pleasure: pleasant news.