12-letter words containing c, a, d, e, t
- snotty-faced — having visible nasal mucus on the face
- spermaticide — spermicide.
- spermatocide — spermicide.
- spotted cavy — paca.
- stacked heel — a shoe heel constructed from several layers of material.
- stapedectomy — a microsurgical procedure to relieve deafness by replacing the stapes of the ear with a prosthetic device.
- 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.
- stock saddle — Western saddle.
- 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
- subdeaconate — subdiaconate.
- subdiaconate — the office or dignity of a subdeacon.
- subduplicate — of the square root of ratios
- sugar-coated — Sugar-coated food is covered with a sweet substance made of sugar.
- suicide pact — an agreement between two or more people to commit suicide together.
- tack welding — to join (pieces of metal) with a number of small welds spaced some distance apart.
- 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
- tetradactyly — the condition of having four fingers or toes
- tetradrachma — a silver coin of ancient Greece, equal to four drachmas.
- the cold war — the period (1945-91) of cold war between the Soviet Union and its Communist allies and the U.S. and its non-Communist allies
- the deceased — the dead person or persons
- the distance — the most distant or a faraway part of the visible scene or landscape
- the ordnance — a department of an army or government dealing with military supplies
- the pandects — a digest of Roman civil law in fifty books, compiled for the emperor Justinian in the 6th cent. a.d.; the Digest
- thread count — thread density of a woven fabric
- tonnage deck — the upper deck in a vessel with only two decks.
- trabeculated — having trabeculae, transversely barred
- track record — a record of achievements or performance: an executive with a good track record.
- tracker fund — finance: type of savings account
- tractor feed — Computers. a mechanism for aligning and transporting paper for a printer by means of pins that catch in perforations along the edges of the paper.
- 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
- tragi-comedy — A tragi-comedy is a play or other written work that is both sad and amusing.
- 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.
- trial docket — docket (def 1).
- trial-docket — Also called trial docket. a list of cases in court for trial, or the names of the parties who have cases pending.
- tricuspidate — having three cusps or flaps.
- tropicalised — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.