12-Letter Words Containing: S,T,R,A,T,O,U,S

• a contract assigning to another party some obligations of a prior contract

• arranged for contracted work to be done by others

• work under a subcontract; engage in a subcontract

• an estate in the country

• According to the World Meteorological Organization, a mid-level, principal cloud type, generally formless and dark grey in colour, which forms from altostratus occurring in layers at the middle altitude of the troposphere (usually above 2400 metres). Nimbostratus usually brings precipitation as the mid-level clouds thicken and subside into the low level of the troposphere. Frontal or cyclonic lift can also carry the top of a deep nimbostratus layer into the high levels of the troposphere. Also classified or characterized as multi-level; abbreviated Ns.

• a person who is deliberately vague

• the leader of a troop of Scouts

• an arithmetic operation in which the difference between two numbers is calculated

• the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole)

• a person who practices masturbation

• situated in or oriented toward the southeast

• of a region of the United States generally including Alabama; Georgia; Florida; Tennessee; South Carolina; North Carolina

• a strong wind from the southeast