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12-letter words containing a, d, r, e, s, c

  • parasiticide — an agent or preparation that destroys parasites.
  • pericarditis — inflammation of the pericardium.
  • plaid screen — [XEROX PARC] A "special effect" that occurs when certain kinds of memory smashes overwrite the control blocks or image memory of a bit-mapped display. The term "salt and pepper" may refer to a different pattern of similar origin. Though the term as coined at PARC refers to the result of an error, some of the X demos induce plaid-screen effects deliberately as a display hack.
  • postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
  • postcardware — Shareware that borders on freeware, in that the author requests only that satisfied users send a postcard of their home town or something. (This practice, silly as it might seem, serves to remind users that they are otherwise getting something for nothing, and may also be psychologically related to real estate "sales" in which $1 changes hands just to keep the transaction from being a gift.)
  • predischarge — of or pertaining to the period prior to discharge, esp prior to discharge from hospital or from employment
  • proboscidate — having a proboscis.
  • proboscidean — pertaining to or resembling a proboscis.
  • process data — data processing
  • producer gas — a mixture of carbon monoxide and nitrogen produced by passing air over hot coke, used mainly as a fuel
  • promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
  • pseudocereal — any of several plants, as buckwheat and quinoa, that produce fruits and seeds used as flour but are not of the grass family.
  • pseudoscalar — a scalar quantity that changes sign when the sense of the orientation of the coordinate system is changed.
  • quadrisected — Simple past tense and past participle of quadrisect.
  • quarterdecks — Plural form of quarterdeck.
  • race suicide — the extinction of a racial or ethnic population that tends to result when, through the unwillingness or forbearance of its members to have children, the birthrate falls below the death rate.
  • radar screen — a screen on equipment used in radar, a method for detecting the position and velocity of a distant object
  • radiesthetic — of or relating to radiesthesia
  • radio source — a cosmic object or phenomenon, as a galaxy, pulsar, quasar, or the remnant of a supernova or of a galactic collision, that emits radio waves.
  • raised beach — a wave-cut platform raised above the shoreline by a relative fall in the water level
  • re-landscape — a section or expanse of rural scenery, usually extensive, that can be seen from a single viewpoint.
  • reclassified — to classify anew.
  • reduced mass — a quantity obtained when one particle is moving about another, larger particle that is also moving, equivalent to the mass of the smaller particle, were the larger particle not moving, and equal to the quotient of the product of the two masses divided by their sum.
  • 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.
  • road surface — the surface of the road, often asphalt
  • 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.
  • sacred heart — the physical heart of Jesus, to which special devotion is offered as a symbol of His love and redemptive sacrifice.
  • sacred lotus — Indian lotus.
  • sacred order — Roman Catholic Church. major order.
  • sand cricket — Jerusalem cricket.
  • sarcoadenoma — adenosarcoma.
  • scabbardless — lacking a scabbard or a sheath for a sword or dagger
  • scalar field — a region with a number assigned at each point.
  • scared stiff — terrified
  • scheherazade — (in The Arabian Nights' Entertainments) the wife of the sultan of India, who relates such interesting tales nightly that the sultan spares her life.
  • schneiderman — Rose, 1884–1972, U.S. labor leader, born in Poland.
  • scout leader — the leader of a troop of Scouts
  • scrap dealer — a person who deals in scrap
  • scraperboard — scratchboard.
  • 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.
  • screw thread — Also called worm. the helical ridge of a screw.
  • scrieveboard — the drawing board of a shipbuilder
  • scrimshander — a person who makes scrimshaw objects.
  • scrive board — a floorlike construction on which the lines of a vessel can be drawn or scribed at full size.
  • search order — an injunction allowing a person to enter the premises of another to search for and take copies of evidence required for a court case, used esp in cases of infringement of copyright
  • second grade — school year: age 7-8
  • secunderabad — a city in N Andhra Pradesh, in central India, part of Hyderabad: a former British military cantonment.
  • self-created — to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.
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