12-letter words containing a, c, s, e, o
- reconvalesce — to convalesce again
- rectirostral — (of a bird) having a straight bill.
- release copy — an article, notice, announcement, or the like, issued in advance for publication or broadcast, bearing a release date.
- remonstrance — an act or instance of remonstrating.
- renovascular — of or relating to the blood vessels of the kidneys.
- reproachless — irreproachable.
- resuscitator — a person or thing that resuscitates.
- ribonuclease — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of RNA.
- road surface — the surface of the road, often asphalt
- rock jasmine — any of several alpine plants belonging to the genus Androsace, of the primrose family, having tufted leaves often in basal rosettes, and umbels of pink, red, purple, or white flowers.
- rocket salad — rocket2 (def 2).
- rocket-salad — any of various plants belonging to the genus Hesperis, of the mustard family, and related genera. Compare dame's rocket.
- roncesvalles — a village in N Spain, in the Pyrenees: defeat of part of Charlemagne's army and the death of Roland a.d.
- rose campion — a plant, Lychnis coronaria, of the pink family, having reddish purple flowers, and leaves covered with whitish down.
- sacher torte — a chocolate cake covered with apricot jam and chocolate icing, usually served with whipped cream.
- sacred lotus — Indian lotus.
- sacred order — Roman Catholic Church. major order.
- sacrilegious — pertaining to or involving sacrilege: sacrilegious practices.
- saddle block — a type of spinal anaesthesia producing sensory loss in the buttocks, inner sides of the thighs, and perineum
- safe conduct — If you are given safe conduct, the authorities officially allow you to travel somewhere, guaranteeing that you will not be arrested or harmed while doing so.
- safe-conduct — a document authorizing safe passage through a region, especially in time of war.
- safety touch — a two-point play
- saffron rice — a dish made from white rice and flavoured with the spice saffron
- sales office — the office or room of the department of a company responsible for selling its goods or services
- salsolaceous — relating to the genus Salsola
- sanctionable — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- sans-culotte — (in the French Revolution) a revolutionary of the poorer class: originally a term of contempt applied by the aristocrats but later adopted as a popular name by the revolutionaries.
- santalaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Santalaceae, a family of semiparasitic plants of Australia and Malaysia including sandalwood and quandong
- sapindaceous — belonging to the Sapindaceae, the soapberry family of plants.
- sarcoadenoma — adenosarcoma.
- sausage code — (humour, programming) Code which, once you know the details of how it's made, you'll never want to use again.
- scapegallows — a criminal who escapes death by hanging or the gallows
- scapegoating — the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself.
- scapegoatism — the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself.
- scare quotes — quotation marks placed around a word or phrase to indicate that it should not be taken literally or automatically accepted as true
- scatter plot — a graphic representation of bivariate data as a set of points in the plane that have Cartesian coordinates equal to corresponding values of the two variates.
- scatter shot — shot prepared for a weapon having a rifled bore or barrel.
- scatteration — the act of scattering.
- scenographic — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
- schoolmaster — a man who presides over or teaches in a school.
- schopenhauer — Arthur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1788–1860, German philosopher.
- scitamineous — of or relating to the Scitimanae order of plants, which includes the ginger and banana plants
- scolopaceous — (of birds or other animals) like a snipe, a shore bird with a straight beak
- scopes trial — John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
- scots gaelic — Scottish Gaelic
- scout leader — the leader of a troop of Scouts
- scraperboard — scratchboard.
- screen actor — a film actor
- screw around — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
- scrieveboard — the drawing board of a shipbuilder