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12-letter words containing a, d, i, c, t

  • redecoration — something used for decorating; adornment; embellishment: The gymnasium was adorned with posters and crepe-paper decorations for the dance.
  • rededication — the act of dedicating.
  • res judicata — a thing adjudicated; a case that has been decided.
  • resyndicated — a group of individuals or organizations combined or making a joint effort to undertake some specific duty or carry out specific transactions or negotiations: The local furniture store is individually owned, but is part of a buying syndicate.
  • revictualled — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
  • road traffic — traffic on the road
  • romanticized — interpreted according to romantic precepts
  • sadistically — pertaining to or characterized by sadism; deriving pleasure or sexual gratification from extreme cruelty: a sadistic psychopath.
  • sanctifiedly — in a sanctified manner
  • sand casting — Sand casting is a process in which a molten metal is poured into a mold made from sand.
  • sand cricket — Jerusalem cricket.
  • scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
  • scared stiff — terrified
  • scarlatinoid — resembling scarlatina or its eruptions.
  • scott domain — An algebraic, boundedly complete, complete partial order. Often simply called a domain.
  • scratch disk — 1.   (storage)   See scratch. 2.   (operating system)   Unallocated space on Windows 95's primary hard disk partition, used for virtual memory. Shortage of space on this partition can result in the error "scratch disk full".
  • scratchbuild — to build a scale model of something from scratch, that is, from raw materials like wood, clay or paper
  • scratchpad i — (language)   A general-purpose language originally for interactive symbolic mathematics by Richard Jenks, Barry Trager, Stephen M. Watt and Robert S. Sutor of IBM Research, ca 1971. It features abstract parametrised data types, multiple inheritance and polymorphism. There were implementations for VM/CMS and AIX.
  • scsi adaptor — (hardware)   (Or "host adaptor") A device that communicates between a computer and its SCSI peripherals. The SCSI adaptor is usually assigned SCSI ID 7. It is often a separate card that is connected to the computer's bus (e.g. PCI, ISA, PCMCIA) though increasinly, SCSI adaptors are built in to the motherboard. Apart from being cheaper, busses like PCI are too slow to keep up with the newer SCSI standards like Ultra SCSI and Ultra-Wide SCSI. There are several varieties of SCSI (and their connectors) and an adaptor will not support them all. The performance of SCSI devices is limited by the speed of the SCSI adaptor and its connection to the computer. An adaptor that plugs into a parallel port is unlikely to be as fast as one incorporated into a motherboard. Fast adaptors use DMA or bus mastering. Some SCSI adaptors include a BIOS to allow PCs to boot from a SCSI hard disk, if their own BIOS supports it. Note that it is not a "SCSI controller" - it does not control the devices, and "SCSI interface" is redundant - the "I" of "SCSI" stands for "interface".
  • section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
  • seed capital — small sum invested in new business
  • semiattached — partially attached; semidetached.
  • semidetached — partly detached.
  • shield match — a cricket match for the Sheffield Shield
  • 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.
  • soda biscuit — a biscuit having soda and sour milk or buttermilk as leavening agents.
  • solidaristic — relating to solidarism
  • spermaticide — spermicide.
  • spermatocide — spermicide.
  • standing cup — a tall decorative cup of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, having a raised cover.
  • stannic acid — any of the series of acids usually occurring as amorphous powders and varying in composition from H 2 SnO 3 (alpha-stannic acid) to H 4 SnO 4 .
  • stearic acid — a colorless, waxlike, sparingly water-soluble, odorless solid, C 1 8 H 3 6 O 2 , the most common fatty acid, occurring as the glyceride in tallow and other animal fats and in some animal oils: used chiefly in the manufacture of soaps, stearates, candles, cosmetics, and in medicine in suppositories and pill coatings.
  • stick around — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
  • stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
  • strait-laced — excessively strict in conduct or morality; puritanical; prudish: strait-laced censors.
  • subdiaconate — the office or dignity of a subdeacon.
  • subduplicate — of the square root of ratios
  • suicide pact — an agreement between two or more people to commit suicide together.
  • syndactylism — having certain digits joined together.
  • syndiotactic — (of a polymer molecule) having a regular alternation of opposite configurations at successive regularly spaced positions along the chain. See also configuration (def 4).
  • tack welding — to join (pieces of metal) with a number of small welds spaced some distance apart.
  • taxi dancing — a system, as in a dance hall or hotel, whereby a person pays for a partner (taxi dancer) for a dance, payment being required for each individual dance during an evening
  • teacher bird — the ovenbird, Seiurus aurocapillus, a songbird that builds a nest shaped like a dome.
  • teaching aid — material used by a teacher to supplement classroom instruction or to stimulate the interest of students.
  • 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.
  • terebic acid — an acid, C 7 H 10 O 4 , formed by the oxidation of certain terpenes and historically important in the discovery of the structures of many terpenes.
  • testiculated — like a testicle, esp in shape
  • the distance — the most distant or a faraway part of the visible scene or landscape
  • thionic acid — any of the five acids of sulfur of the type H 2 S n O 6 , where n is from two to six.
  • titanic acid — any of various acids derived from titanium dioxide, especially H 2 TiO 3 or Ti(OH) 4 .
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