12-letter words starting with s
- second-homer — a person who owns another house in addition to their main home, often in an area where they are not native and used as a holiday home
- second-story — of or located on the second story or floor.
- secret agent — an agent of a secret service.
- secret santa — anonymous Christmas gift exchange
- secret sauce — a secret element, strategy, procedure, etc., that accounts for or increases the chances of success: The app's secret sauce is its simple interface.
- secretagogue — a substance or situation that promotes secretion.
- sectarianism — sectarian spirit or tendencies; excessive devotion to a particular sect, especially in religion.
- sectarianize — to make sectarian.
- section boss — the boss of a section gang.
- section gang — a group of workers who take care of a section of railroad track.
- section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
- section mark — section (def 16).
- sectionalism — excessive regard for sectional or local interests; regional or local spirit, prejudice, etc.
- sectionalize — to render sectional.
- secunderabad — a city in N Andhra Pradesh, in central India, part of Hyderabad: a former British military cantonment.
- secure shell — (operating system) (ssh) A Unix shell program for logging into, and executing commands on, a remote computer. ssh is intended to replace rlogin and rsh, and provide secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network. X11 connections and arbitrary TCP/IP ports can also be forwarded over the secure channel.
- security van — an armoured van used to transport money or other valuables
- sedge family — the plant family Cyperaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, often found in wet areas, having solid stems, narrow, grasslike leaves with closed sheaths, spikes of very small flowers set in a scalelike bract, and a dry, flattened, convex fruit, and including the bulrush, chufa, cotton grass, papyrus, and umbrella plant.
- sedimentable — capable of forming sediment
- see daylight — the light of day: At the end of the tunnel they could see daylight.
- see the menu — When a customer asks to see the menu, they ask you to bring them a copy of the menu.
- seed capital — small sum invested in new business
- seed capsule — the part of a fruit enclosing the seeds; pericarp
- seed oysters — oyster spat; very young oysters, esp. at the stage suitable for transplanting
- seeing glass — a looking glass; mirror.
- segmentalize — to make segmentalized.
- segmentation — division into segments.
- seismic wave — a wave of energy that is generated by an earthquake or other earth vibration and that travels within the earth or along its surface.
- seismography — the scientific measuring and recording of the shock and vibrations of earthquakes.
- seismologist — the science or study of earthquakes and their phenomena.
- seismometric — of or relating to seismometry or a seismometer
- seismonastic — of or relating to seismonasty
- sejant-erect — (of an animal) represented as seated upright with forelegs raised: a lion sejant-erect.
- selectionist — a person who believes in natural selection
- selenic acid — a crystalline, water-soluble, strong, corrosive, dibasic acid, H 2 SeO 4 , resembling sulfuric acid.
- seleniferous — containing or yielding selenium.
- selenography — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
- self-antigen — autoantigen.
- self-assured — self-confident.
- self-basting — (of a turkey) prepared with oil or butter to remain moist when cooked in an oven.
- self-benefit — something that is advantageous or good; an advantage: He explained the benefits of public ownership of the postal system.
- self-blinded — unable to see; lacking the sense of sight; sightless: a blind man.
- self-centred — concerned solely or chiefly with one's own interests, welfare, etc.; engrossed in self; selfish; egotistical.
- self-closing — the end or conclusion, as of a speech.
- self-colored — of one color.
- self-command — self-control.
- self-conceit — an excessively favorable opinion of oneself, one's abilities, etc.; vanity.
- self-concept — the idea or mental image one has of oneself and one's strengths, weaknesses, status, etc.; self-image.
- self-concern — to relate to; be connected with; be of interest or importance to; affect: The water shortage concerns us all.
- self-content — satisfaction with oneself; self-complacency.