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

  • quindecagons — Plural form of quindecagon.
  • 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.
  • radical axis — the line such that tangents drawn from any point of the line to two given circles are equal in length.
  • radical sign — the symbol √ or indicating extraction of a root of the quantity that follows it, as √25=5 or .
  • radicicolous — living on the roots of plants
  • radicivorous — feeding on the roots of plants
  • 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
  • reclassified — to classify anew.
  • 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.
  • saccadically — in a saccadical manner
  • saccharoidal — having a crystalline or granular texture: said esp. of some sandstones and marbles
  • saccidananda — Sat-cit-ananda.
  • sadistically — pertaining to or characterized by sadism; deriving pleasure or sexual gratification from extreme cruelty: a sadistic psychopath.
  • salicylamide — a compound of ammonia and gualtheria oil
  • 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.
  • sandwich bar — a place where sandwiches are sold
  • sandwich man — a person with advertising boards hung from the shoulders.
  • sapindaceous — belonging to the Sapindaceae, the soapberry family of plants.
  • sardonically — characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering: a sardonic grin.
  • scabbardfish — any of several marine fishes having a long, compressed, silvery body, especially a cutlassfish, Trichiurus lepturus, of the western Atlantic.
  • scalar field — a region with a number assigned at each point.
  • scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
  • scandinavian — of or relating to Scandinavia, its inhabitants, or their languages.
  • scared stiff — terrified
  • scarlatinoid — resembling scarlatina or its eruptions.
  • scheme-linda — A Scheme interface to Linda written by Ulf Dahlen of University of Edinburgh in 1990. It runs on the Computing Surface and the Symmetry.
  • schneiderman — Rose, 1884–1972, U.S. labor leader, born in Poland.
  • scott domain — An algebraic, boundedly complete, complete partial order. Often simply called a domain.
  • scouring pad — a small pad, as of steel wool or plastic mesh, used for scouring pots, pans, etc.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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".
  • scuba diving — deep-sea swimming
  • sebacic acid — a crystalline, slightly water-soluble, dibasic acid, C 1 0 H 1 8 O 4 , usually obtained from castor oil: used chiefly in the manufacture of plasticizers and resins.
  • secd machine — Stack Environment Control Dump machine
  • section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
  • seed capital — small sum invested in new business
  • selenic acid — a crystalline, water-soluble, strong, corrosive, dibasic acid, H 2 SeO 4 , resembling sulfuric acid.
  • semi-nomadic — of, relating to, or characteristic of nomads.
  • semiattached — partially attached; semidetached.
  • semidetached — partly detached.
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