12-letter words containing a, d, r, e, s, c
- service road — frontage road.
- shadow price — the calculated price of a good or service for which no market price exists
- shared logic — the sharing of a central processing unit and associated software among several terminals
- shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
- sliced bread — bread: sold pre-sliced
- snake doctor — South Midland and Southern U.S. a dragonfly.
- social order — structure or hierarchy of society
- soda cracker — a thin, crisp cracker or wafer prepared from a yeast dough that has been neutralized by baking soda.
- soldier crab — a small blue Australian estuarine crab of the Mictyris genus usually found in large numbers
- sound camera — a motion-picture camera that is capable of photographing silently at the normal speed of 24 fps and operating in synchronization with separate audio recording equipment.
- speed camera — device that detects speeding traffic
- spermaticide — spermicide.
- spermatocide — spermicide.
- square dance — hoedown, barn dance
- square-dance — to perform or participate in a square dance.
- square-faced — having a front shaped so as to be square or rectangular
- star-crossed — thwarted or opposed by the stars; ill-fated: star-crossed lovers.
- starchedness — the condition or quality of being starched
- stated clerk — an administrative official in the Presbyterian Church and certain other Protestant churches
- 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.
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- straddleback — astride, on horseback
- strait-laced — excessively strict in conduct or morality; puritanical; prudish: strait-laced censors.
- student card — a card verifying somebody's identity as a university student and entitling them to services, discounts, etc
- suberic acid — a crystalline dibasic acid, C 8 H 1 4 O 4 , obtained especially from suberin, castor oil, and cork: used chiefly in the preparation of plastics and plasticizers.
- sugar-coated — Sugar-coated food is covered with a sweet substance made of sugar.
- supercharged — equipped with a supercharger.
- surface road — a road or street level with its surroundings: surface roads and elevated highways.
- trade school — a high school giving instruction chiefly in the skilled trades.
- trade secret — a secret process, technique, method, etc., used to advantage in a trade, business, profession, etc.
- tradescantia — any plant of the American genus Tradescantia, widely cultivated for their striped variegated leaves: family Commelinaceae
- transcendent — going beyond ordinary limits; surpassing; exceeding.
- transcending — to rise above or go beyond; overpass; exceed: to transcend the limits of thought; kindness transcends courtesy.
- transdialect — to translate (speech, writing, etc.) into a different dialect.
- tricuspidate — having three cusps or flaps.
- tropicalised — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- un-scattered — distributed or occurring at widely spaced and usually irregular intervals: scattered villages; scattered showers.
- under canvas — If you are living and sleeping under canvas, you are living and sleeping in a tent.
- undersurface — underside; bottom surface.
- undesecrated — to divest of sacred or hallowed character or office.
- undischarged — gun: not let off
- undistracted — not distracted; concentrating
- unforecasted — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- unfranchised — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- vascularised — (of a tissue or embryo) to develop or extend blood vessels or other fluid-bearing vessels or ducts; become vascular.
- vascularized — rendered vascular by the formation of new blood vessels.
- vindicatress — a female vindicator
- wardian case — a type of terrarium having a top and sides of glass.
- watchstander — (US) A person who is on watch on a ship.
- windcheaters — Plural form of windcheater.