12-letter words containing a, c, i, n, e, t
- 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.
- security van — an armoured van used to transport money or other valuables
- seismonastic — of or relating to seismonasty
- semantic web — an extension of the World Wide Web in which data is structured and XML-tagged on the basis of its meaning or content, so that computers can process and integrate the information without human intervention: the semantic Web acting as a global database or huge brain.
- semantically — of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.
- semimonastic — somewhat monastic; monastic in certain respects
- sensualistic — of or pertaining to the philosophical position of sensualism
- seroreaction — any reaction occurring in serum.
- single track — a single pair of lines so that trains can travel in only one direction at a time
- single-track — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
- slide-action — (of a rifle or shotgun) having a lever that when slid back and forth ejects the empty case and cocks and reloads the piece.
- slot machine — a gambling machine operated by inserting coins into a slot and pulling a handle that activates a set of spinning symbols on wheels, the final alignment of which determines the payoff that is released into a receptacle at the bottom.
- somatotensic — (of certain plants that are eaten as food) restoring equilibrium
- somnifacient — causing or inducing sleep.
- sorbefacient — inducing absorption
- speciational — relating to speciation
- sphacelation — the process of mortification
- sphincterial — relating to a sphincter
- spinach beet — chard, a plant cultivated for its edible leaves
- stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
- stercoranism — the belief that the consecrated Eucharistic elements, the bread and wine, are subject to decay and pass through the body like other ingested things
- stercoranist — a person who believes in stercoranism
- stereoptican — a projector usually consisting of two complete lanterns arranged so that one picture appears to dissolve while the next is forming.
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- straightneck — a variety of summer squash related to the crookneck but not having a recurved neck.
- stupefacient — stupefying; producing stupor.
- stupefaction — the state of being stupefied; stupor.
- subdiaconate — the office or dignity of a subdeacon.
- subjectional — the act of subjecting.
- supercabinet — a specially-formed cabinet, a select or powerful group of political ministers (cabinet)
- sycophantize — to act the sycophant
- synaesthetic — synesthesia.
- synectically — from a synectic point of view
- tack welding — to join (pieces of metal) with a number of small welds spaced some distance apart.
- tail section — the back or rear section of an aeroplane
- tao te ching — the philosophical book in verse supposedly written by Lao-tzu.
- tape machine — a tape recorder.
- tax increase — an increase in the amount of tax that people and companies are obliged to pay
- teaching aid — material used by a teacher to supplement classroom instruction or to stimulate the interest of students.
- teaching job — a position as a teacher
- team captain — the captain of a sporting team
- technicality — technical character.
- technicalize — to make technical
- technobandit — a person who steals technological secrets, as from the government or a place of employment, and sells them to agents of foreign governments or to competing firms.
- technocratic — of, relating to, or designating a technocrat or technocracy.
- technomaniac — a person with an obsessional enthusiasm for technology