12-letter words that end in re
- savoir-vivre — knowledge of the world and the ways or usages of polite society.
- self-torture — the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.
- selkirkshire — Alexander (originally Alexander Selcraig) 1676–1721, Scottish sailor marooned on a Pacific island: supposed prototype of Robinson Crusoe.
- sexual spore — a spore formed after the fusion of gametes and an asexual spore is the result of asexual reproduction
- shanks' mare — one's own legs, especially as a means of moving from one place to another: The only way we can get there is by shanks' mare.
- ship's store — a retail store aboard a navy ship that sells toiletries, cigarettes, etc., to the ship's personnel.
- sierra madre — a mountain range extending from S Wyoming into N Colorado.
- silviculture — the cultivation of forest trees; forestry.
- siphonophore — any pelagic hydrozoan of the order Siphonophora, being a floating or swimming colony composed of polyps.
- sir bedivere — (in Arthurian legend) a knight who took the dying King Arthur to the barge in which he was carried to Avalon
- soft chancre — chancroid.
- solid figure — a figure that has three dimensions
- somatopleure — the double layer formed by the association of the upper layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the overlying ectoderm, functioning in the formation of the body wall and amnion.
- sponged ware — spongeware.
- start a hare — to initiate a topic of conversation
- stick figure — a diagrammatic drawing representing a human or animal, usually made with one line each for the torso and appendages, and often a circle for the head.
- storm centre — the centre of a cyclonic storm, etc, where pressure is lowest
- stratosphere — the region of the upper atmosphere extending upward from the tropopause to about 30 miles (50 km) above the earth, characterized by little vertical change in temperature.
- studded tire — a boss, knob, nailhead, or other protuberance projecting from a surface or part, especially as an ornament.
- sub-mediocre — of only ordinary or moderate quality; neither good nor bad; barely adequate: The car gets only mediocre mileage, but it's fun to drive. Synonyms: undistinguished, commonplace, pedestrian, everyday; run-of-the-mill. Antonyms: extraordinary, superior, uncommon, incomparable.
- subminiature — subminiature camera.
- substructure — a structure forming the foundation of a building or other construction.
- superculture — the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.
- sylviculture — the cultivation of forest trees; forestry.
- tape measure — a long, flexible strip or ribbon, as of cloth or metal, marked with subdivisions of the foot or meter and used for measuring.
- telesoftware — the transmission of computer programs on a teletext system
- teleutospore — a spore of certain rust fungi, which carries the fungus through the winter and which, on germination, produces the promycelium.
- the creature — whiskey or other intoxicating liquor
- thermosphere — the region of the upper atmosphere in which temperature increases continuously with altitude, encompassing essentially all of the atmosphere above the mesosphere.
- thoroughfare — a road, street, or the like, that leads at each end into another street.
- three-square — having an equilateral triangular cross section, as certain files.
- times square — a wide intersection extending from 43rd to 47th Streets in central Manhattan, New York City, where Broadway and Seventh Avenue intersect.
- to open fire — If you open fire on someone, you start shooting at them.
- trillionaire — a person whose assets are worth over a trillion of the monetary units of his or her country
- trolley wire — an overhead wire that provides the current required for the trolleys of electric vehicles
- urban centre — an urban area that is large and heavily populated
- varying hare — snowshoe hare.
- vasoligature — vasoligation.
- venepuncture — the puncture of a vein for surgical or therapeutic purposes or for collecting blood specimens for analysis.
- venipuncture — the puncture of a vein for surgical or therapeutic purposes or for collecting blood specimens for analysis.
- venus figure — Venus (def 3).
- vermiculture — the raising and production of earthworms and their by-products.
- vitrifacture — the making of glass or glass products
- warwickshire — a county in central England. 765 sq. mi. (1980 sq. km).
- what is more — moreover, in addition
- wigtownshire — a historic county in SW Scotland.
- wilkes-barre — a city in E Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River.
- word picture — a description in words, especially one that is unusually vivid: She drew a word picture of a South Pacific sunset.
- yellow ochre — an earth pigment which is yellowish orange
- zone of fire — the area within which a unit is prepared to place its fire.