12-letter words starting with S
Embark on a linguistic journey with words that begin with the letter S. This section showcases how S at the start shapes the identity and sound of various words. From commonly used terms to rare finds, explore the diverse range of words that start with S, enriching your vocabulary and appreciation for language.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| surveillance | 17 | close observation of a person or group (usually by the police) | - |
| specifically | 24 | in distinction from others | a program specifically for teenagers |
| satisfaction | 17 | state of being gratified or satisfied | - |
| successfully | 22 | with success; in a successful manner | she performed the surgery successfully |
| supernatural | 14 | supernatural forces and events and beings collectively | She doesn't believe in the supernatural |
| surprisingly | 18 | in an amazing manner; to everyone's surprise | - |
| significance | 20 | a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred | the significance of his remark became clear only later |
| surroundings | 14 | the environmental condition | - |
| subconscious | 18 | psychic activity just below the level of awareness | - |
| superstition | 14 | an irrational belief arising from ignorance or fear | - |
| snowboarding | 19 | the act of sliding down a snow-covered slope while standing on a snowboard | - |
| sufficiently | 23 | to a sufficient degree | she was sufficiently fluent in Mandarin |
| satisfactory | 20 | meeting requirements | the step makes a satisfactory seat |
| spirituality | 17 | property or income owned by a church | - |
| sleepwalking | 22 | walking by a person who is asleep | - |
| straightaway | 22 | a straight segment of a roadway or racecourse | - |
| synchronized | 30 | operating in unison | the synchronized flapping of a bird's wings |
| subsequently | 26 | happening at a time subsequent to a reference time | he apologized subsequently |
| screenwriter | 17 | someone who writes screenplays | - |
| stubbornness | 16 | resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires | - |
| sledgehammer | 21 | beat with a sledgehammer | - |
| spokesperson | 20 | an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose | the meeting was attended by spokespersons for all the major organs of government |
| storytelling | 16 | - | - |
| subscription | 18 | agreement expressed by (or as if expressed by) signing your name | - |
| simultaneous | 14 | occurring or operating at the same time | - |
| scriptwriter | 19 | someone who writes scripts for plays or movies or broadcast dramas | - |
| sportscaster | 16 | an announcer who reads sports news or describes sporting events | - |
| strengthened | 17 | given added strength or support | - |
| suspiciously | 19 | with suspicion | she regarded the food suspiciously |
| substitution | 14 | an event in which one thing is substituted for another | - |
| subterranean | 14 | lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed) | subterranean motives for murder |
| specializing | 26 | - | - |
| stepdaughter | 19 | a daughter of your spouse by a former marriage | - |
| straitjacket | 25 | a garment similar to a jacket that is used to bind the arms tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent person | - |
| stratosphere | 17 | the atmospheric layer between the troposphere and the mesosphere | - |
| speakerphone | 23 | a telephone with a microphone and loudspeaker; can be used without picking up a handset; several people can participate in a call at the same time | - |
| selflessness | 15 | acting with less concern for yourself than for the success of the joint activity | - |
| schoolmaster | 19 | food fish of warm Caribbean and Atlantic waters | - |
| solicitation | 14 | request for a sum of money | - |
| structurally | 17 | with respect to structure | structurally, the organization is healthy |
| symbolically | 24 | in a symbolic manner | symbolically accepted goals |
| sociological | 17 | of or relating to or determined by sociology | sociological studies |
| subcommittee | 20 | a subset of committee members organized for a specific purpose | - |
| substituting | 15 | working as a substitute for someone who is ill or on leave of absence | - |
| spiritualism | 16 | concern with things of the spirit | - |
| southwestern | 18 | situated in or oriented toward the southwest | - |
| subsidiaries | 15 | - | - |
| spiritualist | 14 | someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead | - |
| standardized | 24 | brought into conformity with a standard | standardized education |
| southeastern | 15 | situated in or oriented toward the southeast | - |
| supercharged | 21 | fraught with great emotion | - |
| subjectivity | 29 | judgment based on individual personal impressions and feelings and opinions rather than external facts | - |
| sharpshooter | 20 | someone skilled in shooting | - |
| stranglehold | 17 | complete power over a person or situation | corporations have a stranglehold on the media |
| southernmost | 17 | situated farthest south | Key West is the southernmost city in the continental United States |
| subcontinent | 16 | a large and distinctive landmass (as India or Greenland) that is a distinct part of some continent | - |
| stenographer | 18 | someone skilled in the transcription of speech (especially dictation) | - |
| sacrilegious | 15 | grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred | it is sacrilegious to enter with shoes on |
| spectrometer | 18 | spectroscope for obtaining a mass spectrum by deflecting ions into a thin slit and measuring the ion current with an electrometer | - |
| substantiate | 14 | make real or concrete; give reality or substance to | our ideas must be substantiated into actions |
| shortsighted | 20 | unable to see distant objects clearly | - |
| scatterbrain | 16 | a flighty and disorganized person | - |
| surrealistic | 14 | characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions | - |
| synchronised | 21 | operating in unison | - |
| streetwalker | 19 | a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets | - |
| supplication | 18 | a humble request for help from someone in authority | - |
| superimposed | 19 | placed on or over something else | - |
| specialising | 17 | - | - |
| subcutaneous | 16 | relating to or located below the epidermis | subcutaneous implant |
| skateboarder | 19 | someone who skates on a skateboard | - |
| stonewalling | 16 | stalling or delaying especially by refusing to answer questions or cooperate | - |
| subliminally | 19 | - | - |
| sarsaparilla | 14 | any of various prickly climbing plants of the tropical American genus Smilax having aromatic roots and heart-shaped leaves | - |
| sharecropper | 21 | small farmers and tenants | - |
| staggeringly | 18 | extremely | - |
| streamlining | 15 | - | - |
| supercharger | 20 | compressor that forces increased oxygen into the cylinders of an internal-combustion engine | - |
| scatological | 17 | dealing pruriently with excrement and excretory functions | scatological literature |
| salesmanship | 19 | skill in selling; skill in persuading people to buy | he read a book on salesmanship but it didn't help |
| separateness | 14 | the quality of being not alike; being distinct or different from that otherwise experienced or known | - |
| shuffleboard | 24 | a game in which players use long sticks to shove wooden disks onto the scoring area marked on a smooth surface | - |
| standardised | 15 | brought into conformity with a standard | - |
| stereotyping | 18 | - | - |
| subservience | 19 | in a subservient state | - |
| subjectively | 29 | in a subjective way | you cannot look at these facts subjectively |
| sporadically | 20 | in a sporadic manner | he only works sporadically |
| spectrograph | 22 | a photographic record of a spectrum | - |
| spectroscope | 20 | an optical instrument for spectrographic analysis | - |
| spellbinding | 18 | attracting and holding interest as if by a spell | a spellbinding description of life in ancient Rome |
| straightener | 16 | a device for straightening | a hair straightener |
| straightedge | 18 | hand tool consisting of a flat rigid rectangular bar (metal or wood) that can be used to draw straight lines (or test their straightness) | - |
| stereophonic | 19 | designating the reproduction of sound using two or more independent audio channels | - |
| stereoscopic | 18 | of or relating to a stereoscope | stereoscopic lenses |
| supercilious | 16 | expressive of contempt | curled his lip in a supercilious smile |
| superhighway | 27 | an extensive electronic network (such as the internet) used for the rapid transfer of sound and video and graphics in digital form | - |
| supplemental | 18 | functioning in a supporting capacity | - |
| subordinated | 16 | - | - |
| sadistically | 18 | - | - |
| sequentially | 24 | in a consecutive manner | - |
| seismologist | 15 | a geophysicist who studies earthquakes and the mechanical characteristics of the Earth | - |
| shipbuilding | 21 | the construction of ships | - |
| spermatozoon | 25 | the male reproductive cell; the male gamete | - |
| spectroscopy | 23 | the use of spectroscopes to analyze spectra | - |
| scandalously | 18 | in a scandalous manner | you behaved scandalously when you walked out of that meeting! |
| scrupulously | 19 | with extreme conscientiousness | - |
| sluggishness | 17 | a state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness) | - |
| shortchanged | 22 | - | - |
| spitefulness | 17 | malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty | - |
| somnambulist | 18 | someone who walks about in their sleep | - |
| streptomycin | 21 | an antibiotic produced by the actinomycete Streptomyces griseus and used to treat tuberculosis | - |
| successively | 22 | in proper order or sequence | - |
| suggestively | 20 | in a suggestive manner | she smiled suggestively |
| swashbuckler | 26 | a reckless impetuous irresponsible person | - |
| shatterproof | 20 | resistant to shattering or splintering | shatterproof automobile windows |
| shareholding | 20 | a holding in the form of shares of corporations | - |
| sectarianism | 16 | a narrow-minded adherence to a particular sect or party or denomination | he condemned religious sectarianism |
| snaggletooth | 17 | - | - |
| sportswriter | 17 | a journalist who writes about sports | - |
| statistician | 14 | someone versed in the collection and interpretation of numerical data (especially someone who uses statistics to calculate insurance premiums) | - |
| spectrometry | 21 | the use of spectroscopes to analyze spectra | - |
| steeplechase | 19 | a footrace of usually 3000 meters over a closed track with hurdles and a water jump | - |
| stigmatizing | 25 | - | - |
| submissively | 22 | in a servile manner | - |
| substructure | 16 | lowest support of a structure | - |
| synthesizing | 28 | - | - |
| supraorbital | 16 | located or occurring above the eye socket | - |
| scandalizing | 25 | - | - |
| schoolfellow | 23 | an acquaintance that you go to school with | - |
| scenographer | 20 | - | - |
| salutatorian | 12 | a graduating student with the second highest academic rank; may deliver the opening address at graduation exercises | - |
| semiofficial | 22 | having some official authority or sanction | - |
| scripturally | 19 | - | - |
| semidetached | 21 | attached on one side only | a semidetached house |
| solitariness | 12 | a disposition toward being alone | - |
| shirtsleeves | 18 | not wearing a jacket | in your shirtsleeves |
| spinsterhood | 18 | the state of being a spinster (usually an elderly unmarried woman) | - |
| stakhanovite | 22 | - | - |
| spaciousness | 16 | spatial largeness and extensiveness (especially inside a building) | his new office lacked the spaciousness that he had become accustomed to |
| strangulated | 14 | - | - |
| stupendously | 18 | to a stupendous degree | stupendously ignorant people |
| subarachnoid | 20 | - | - |
| stereopticon | 16 | - | - |
| stonemasonry | 17 | - | - |
| superhumanly | 22 | - | - |
| subparagraph | 22 | - | - |
| substitutive | 17 | - | - |
| survivorship | 23 | - | - |
| synaesthesia | 18 | a sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated | - |
| synchronizer | 29 | an instrument that indicates whether two periodic motions are synchronous (especially an instrument that enables a pilot to synchronize the propellers of a plane that has two or more engines) | - |
| sympathising | 23 | - | - |
| sauerbratens | 14 | - | - |
| scabridities | 17 | - | - |
| scabrousness | 16 | - | - |
| scaffoldages | 22 | - | - |
| scaffoldings | 22 | - | - |
| scalableness | 16 | - | - |
| scaldberries | 17 | - | - |
| scalenohedra | 18 | - | - |
| scambaitings | 19 | - | - |
| scabbinesses | 18 | - | - |
| scabbardless | 19 | - | - |
| saunteringly | 16 | - | - |
| saurischians | 17 | - | - |
| sauropsidans | 15 | - | - |
| savagenesses | 16 | - | - |
| saveableness | 17 | - | - |
| savingnesses | 16 | - | - |
| savorinesses | 15 | - | - |
| saxophonists | 24 | - | - |
| scampishness | 21 | - | - |
| scandalisers | 15 | - | - |
| scandalising | 16 | - | - |
| scarabaeoids | 17 | - | - |
| scarabaeuses | 16 | - | - |
| scaramouches | 21 | - | - |
| scarcenesses | 16 | - | - |
| scaremongers | 17 | - | - |
| scarificator | 19 | - | - |
| scarifyingly | 24 | - | - |
| scarabaeists | 16 | - | - |
| scapulomancy | 23 | - | - |
| scandalizers | 24 | - | - |
| scantinesses | 14 | - | - |
| scapegallows | 20 | - | - |
| scapegoating | 18 | - | - |
| scapegoatism | 19 | - | - |
| scapulimancy | 23 | - | - |
| scatologists | 15 | - | - |
| saturability | 17 | - | - |
| sanguinolent | 13 | - | - |
| saponifiable | 19 | - | - |
| saprolegnias | 15 | - | - |
| sapropelites | 16 | - | - |
| saprophagous | 20 | (of certain animals) feeding on dead or decaying animal matter | - |
| saprophytism | 24 | - | - |
| saprotrophic | 21 | - | - |
| sarcenchymes | 24 | - | - |
| sarcolemmata | 18 | - | - |
| sapindaceous | 17 | - | - |
| sapientially | 17 | - | - |
| sanguivorous | 16 | - | - |
| sanitariness | 12 | the state of being conducive to health | - |
| sanitisation | 12 | making something sanitary (free of germs) as by sterilizing | - |
| sanitization | 21 | making something sanitary (free of germs) as by sterilizing | - |
| sansculottes | 14 | - | - |
| sansculottic | 16 | - | - |
| sansevierias | 15 | - | - |
| santalaceous | 14 | - | - |
| sarcomatoses | 16 | - | - |
| sarcomatosis | 16 | - | - |
| sarcophagous | 20 | - | - |
| satellitized | 22 | - | - |
| satellitizes | 21 | - | - |
| satinflowers | 18 | - | - |
| satirisation | 12 | - | - |
| satirization | 21 | - | - |
| satisficings | 18 | - | - |
| satellitiums | 14 | - | - |
| satellitises | 12 | - | - |
| sarcoplasmic | 20 | - | - |
| sardonically | 18 | in a sarcastic manner | - |
| sardonicisms | 17 | - | - |
| sarrusophone | 17 | - | - |
| satanologies | 13 | - | - |
| satanophobia | 19 | an abnormal fear of Satan | - |
| satellitised | 13 | - | - |
| satisfyingly | 22 | in a gratifying manner | - |
| schizothymic | 36 | - | - |
| schoolhouses | 20 | - | - |
| schorlaceous | 19 | - | - |
| schorlomites | 19 | - | - |
| schottisches | 22 | - | - |
| schussboomer | 21 | - | - |
| schwarmereis | 22 | - | - |
| scientifical | 19 | - | - |
| schoolgoings | 19 | - | - |
| schmaltziest | 28 | - | - |
| schnorkeling | 22 | - | - |
| schnorkelled | 22 | - | - |
| scholarliest | 17 | - | - |
| scholarships | 22 | - | - |
| scholastical | 19 | - | - |
| schoolboyish | 25 | befitting or characteristic of a young boy | schoolboyish pranks |
| schoolcrafts | 22 | - | - |
| scincoidians | 17 | - | - |
| scindapsuses | 17 | - | - |
| scintigraphy | 23 | - | - |
| sclerometers | 16 | - | - |
| sclerometric | 18 | - | - |
| sclerophylls | 22 | - | - |
| sclerophylly | 25 | - | - |
| sclerotising | 15 | - | - |
| sclerotizing | 24 | - | - |
| sclerotomies | 16 | - | - |
| scolopaceous | 18 | - | - |
| sclerodermic | 19 | - | - |
| sclerodermia | 17 | - | - |
| scintillated | 15 | - | - |
| scintillates | 14 | - | - |
| scintillator | 14 | - | - |
| scissiparity | 19 | - | - |
| scissortails | 14 | - | - |
| scitamineous | 16 | - | - |
| sclerenchyma | 24 | - | - |
| sclerodermas | 17 | - | - |
| scolopendras | 17 | - | - |
| schizothymia | 34 | resembling schizophrenia but remaining within the bounds of normality | - |
| scatophagies | 20 | - | - |
| scavengering | 19 | - | - |
| sceneshifter | 20 | a stagehand responsible for moving scenery | - |
| scenographic | 22 | - | - |
| schecklatons | 23 | - | - |
| schematising | 20 | - | - |
| schematizing | 29 | - | - |
| schemozzling | 38 | - | - |
| scavengeries | 18 | - | - |
| scattinesses | 14 | - | - |
| scatophagous | 20 | - | - |
| scatteration | 14 | - | - |
| scattergoods | 16 | - | - |
| scattergrams | 17 | - | - |
| scatteringly | 18 | - | - |
| scatterlings | 15 | - | - |
| scattermouch | 21 | - | - |
| schillerised | 18 | - | - |
| schillerises | 17 | - | - |
| schillerized | 27 | - | - |
| schistosomes | 19 | - | - |
| schizocarpic | 32 | - | - |
| schizogonies | 27 | - | - |
| schizogonous | 27 | - | - |
| schizomycete | 33 | - | - |
| schizophrene | 31 | - | - |
| schizophytes | 34 | - | - |
| schizophytic | 36 | - | - |
| schistosomal | 19 | - | - |
| schismatizes | 28 | - | - |
| schillerizes | 26 | - | - |
| schindyleses | 21 | - | - |
| schindylesis | 21 | - | - |
| schindyletic | 23 | - | - |
| schismatical | 21 | of or relating to or involved in or characteristic of schism | - |
| schismatised | 20 | - | - |
| schismatises | 19 | - | - |
| schismatized | 29 | - | - |
| schizopodous | 29 | - | - |
| sanguinities | 13 | - | - |
| sabermetrics | 18 | - | - |
| sabulosities | 14 | - | - |
| saburrations | 14 | - | - |
| saccadically | 22 | - | - |
| saccharified | 23 | - | - |
| saccharifies | 22 | - | - |
| saccharinely | 22 | - | - |
| saccharinity | 22 | the excessive sweetness of saccharin | - |
| salpiglossis | 15 | any plant of the genus Salpiglossis | - |
| salutariness | 12 | - | - |
| salutational | 12 | - | - |
| salutatories | 12 | - | - |
| salutatorily | 15 | - | - |
| salutiferous | 15 | - | - |
| salvableness | 17 | - | - |
| salvationism | 17 | - | - |
| salubriously | 17 | - | - |
| saltpetremen | 16 | - | - |
| salsolaceous | 14 | - | - |
| saltationism | 14 | - | - |
| saltationist | 12 | - | - |
| saltatorious | 12 | - | - |
| saltchuckers | 23 | - | - |
| saltimbancos | 18 | - | - |
| saltimboccas | 20 | - | - |
| saltpetreman | 16 | - | - |
| salvationist | 15 | - | - |
| salvifically | 23 | - | - |
| sanctifiable | 19 | - | - |
| sandblasters | 15 | - | - |
| sandblasting | 16 | - | - |
| sanderswoods | 17 | - | - |
| sandpainting | 16 | - | - |
| sandpapering | 18 | - | - |
| sanguiferous | 16 | - | - |
| sanguinarias | 13 | - | - |
| sanguinarily | 16 | - | - |
| sanctuarizes | 23 | - | - |
| sanctuarized | 24 | - | - |
| sanctifiedly | 21 | - | - |
| sanctifyings | 21 | - | - |
| sanctimonies | 16 | - | - |
| sanctionable | 16 | - | - |
| sanctioneers | 14 | - | - |
| sanctionless | 14 | - | - |
| sanctuarised | 15 | - | - |
| sanctuarises | 14 | - | - |
| sanguineness | 13 | feeling sanguine; optimistically cheerful and confident | - |
| salpiglosses | 15 | - | - |
| saccharising | 20 | - | - |
| sacrocostals | 16 | - | - |
| sacroiliitis | 14 | - | - |
| saddlebacked | 23 | - | - |
| saddlecloths | 19 | - | - |
| safecrackers | 23 | - | - |
| safecracking | 24 | - | - |
| safeguarding | 18 | - | - |
| sacrilegists | 15 | - | - |
| saccharizing | 29 | - | - |
| saccharoidal | 20 | - | - |
| sacculations | 16 | - | - |
| sacerdotally | 18 | - | - |
| sacramentals | 16 | - | - |
| sacramentary | 19 | - | - |
| sacramenting | 17 | - | - |
| sacrednesses | 15 | - | - |
| safekeepings | 22 | - | - |
| sagittarians | 13 | - | - |
| sailboarders | 15 | - | - |
| salicylamide | 20 | - | - |
| salicylating | 18 | - | - |
| salification | 17 | - | - |
| salinisation | 12 | - | - |
| salinization | 21 | - | - |
| salinometers | 14 | - | - |
| salinometric | 16 | - | - |
| sallownesses | 15 | - | - |
| salespersons | 14 | - | - |
| sailboarding | 16 | - | - |
| sailboatings | 15 | - | - |
| saintpaulias | 14 | - | - |
| salabilities | 14 | - | - |
| salamandrian | 15 | - | - |
| salamandrine | 15 | - | - |
| salamandroid | 16 | - | - |
| saleableness | 14 | - | - |
| salmagundies | 16 | - | - |
| separatively | 20 | - | - |
| septuagenary | 18 | - | - |
| septuplicate | 18 | - | - |
| sepulchering | 20 | - | - |
| sepulchrally | 22 | - | - |
| sequaciously | 26 | - | - |
| sequestering | 22 | - | - |
| sequestrable | 23 | - | - |
| septillionth | 17 | - | - |
| septilateral | 14 | - | - |
| separatories | 14 | - | - |
| separatrices | 16 | - | - |
| sepiostaires | 14 | - | - |
| septemvirate | 19 | - | - |
| septennially | 17 | - | - |
| septentrions | 14 | - | - |
| septicaemias | 18 | - | - |
| septicidally | 20 | - | - |
| sequestrants | 21 | - | - |
| sequestrated | 22 | - | - |
| sequestrates | 21 | - | - |
| serjeantries | 19 | - | - |
| serjeantship | 24 | - | - |
| seroconverts | 17 | - | - |
| seronegative | 16 | - | - |
| seropositive | 17 | - | - |
| seropurulent | 14 | - | - |
| serotaxonomy | 24 | - | - |
| serotonergic | 15 | - | - |
| seriocomical | 18 | mixing the serious with the comic with comic predominating | - |
| serigraphies | 18 | - | - |
| sequestrator | 21 | - | - |
| seraphically | 22 | - | - |
| seraskierate | 16 | - | - |
| serenenesses | 12 | - | - |
| sergeantship | 18 | - | - |
| sericultural | 14 | of or relating to sericulture | sericultural industry |
| sericultures | 14 | - | - |
| serigraphers | 18 | - | - |
| serousnesses | 12 | - | - |
| separatistic | 16 | - | - |
| seminalities | 14 | - | - |
| semiprecious | 18 | used of gemstones having less commercial value than precious stones | such semiprecious stones as amethyst, garnet, jade, and tourmaline |
| semitrailers | 14 | - | - |
| semitropical | 18 | of or relating to or characteristic of conditions in the subtropics | - |
| semivitreous | 17 | - | - |
| semiweeklies | 21 | - | - |
| sempervivums | 24 | - | - |
| sempiternity | 19 | the property of being perpetual (seemingly ceaseless) | - |
| sempiternums | 18 | - | - |
| semipellucid | 19 | - | - |
| semiparasite | 16 | a parasitic plant that contains some chlorophyll and therefore is capable of photosynthesis | - |
| seminiferous | 17 | bearing or producing seed or semen | seminiferous tubules |
| seminudities | 15 | - | - |
| semiological | 17 | - | - |
| semiologists | 15 | - | - |
| semioticians | 16 | - | - |
| semioticists | 16 | - | - |
| semipalmated | 19 | - | - |
| sempsterings | 17 | - | - |
| sempstresses | 16 | - | - |
| senarmontite | 14 | - | - |
| sensualistic | 14 | - | - |
| sensualities | 12 | - | - |
| sensualizing | 22 | - | - |
| sensuosities | 12 | - | - |
| sensuousness | 12 | a sensuous feeling | - |
| sententially | 15 | - | - |
| sentinelling | 13 | - | - |
| separability | 19 | the capability of being separated | - |
| sensualising | 13 | - | - |
| sensorimotor | 14 | of or relating to the sensory and motor coordination of an organism or to the controlling nerves | - |
| senatorially | 15 | - | - |
| senatorships | 17 | - | - |
| senectitudes | 15 | - | - |
| sensationism | 14 | - | - |
| sensationist | 12 | - | - |
| sensibleness | 14 | the quality of showing good sense or practical judgment | - |
| sensitometer | 14 | a measuring instrument for measuring the light sensitivity of film over a range of exposures | - |
| sensitometry | 17 | - | - |
| shamateurism | 19 | - | - |
| sharpbenders | 20 | - | - |
| shatteringly | 19 | - | - |
| sheathfishes | 24 | - | - |
| sheepberries | 19 | - | - |
| sheepherders | 21 | - | - |
| sheepherding | 22 | - | - |
| sharksuckers | 25 | - | - |
| sharemilkers | 21 | - | - |
| shamefacedly | 26 | in a shamefaced manner | quarrels and dissensions ensued among the cast, most of whom hurriedly and shamefacedly handed over their parts to understudies |
| shamefulness | 20 | unworthiness meriting public disgrace and dishonor | - |
| shareability | 20 | - | - |
| sharecropped | 22 | - | - |
| sharefarmers | 20 | - | - |
| shareholders | 19 | - | - |
| sheepishness | 20 | feeling embarrassed about yourself | - |
| sheepshearer | 20 | - | - |
| sheetrocking | 22 | - | - |
| sherardizing | 26 | - | - |
| shergottites | 16 | - | - |
| sheriffships | 26 | - | - |
| shiftinesses | 18 | - | - |
| shillingless | 16 | - | - |
| shillyshally | 24 | postpone doing what one should be doing | - |
| shimmeringly | 23 | - | - |
| shinplasters | 17 | - | - |
