12-letter words containing c, a, r, e, t
- rescue party — a group of people who attempt to rescue, find or save a person or people for danger, esp a person or people who have got lost while mountain climbing
- respite care — Respite care is short-term care that is provided for very old or very sick people so that the person who usually cares for them can have a break.
- resuscitator — a person or thing that resuscitates.
- 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.
- retail price — amount sth costs in shops
- reticulation — a reticulated formation, arrangement, or appearance; network.
- retinotectal — of or relating to the retina and the tectum
- retractively — in a retractive manner
- retranscribe — to make a written copy, especially a typewritten copy, of (dictated material, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material).
- retrocognate — being or pertaining to memory or extrasensory perception of past events.
- retrophiliac — someone who has a strong liking for things from the past
- return match — sport: second game between same teams
- revictualled — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
- rhamphotheca — the horny covering of a bird's bill.
- rhetorically — used for, belonging to, or concerned with mere style or effect.
- rocket plane — aircraft that launches rockets
- rocket range — a firing range for rockets
- 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.
- rockumentary — a documentary about rock music.
- romanticized — interpreted according to romantic precepts
- roof terrace — a garden on the roof of a building
- router patch — a plywood panel patch with parallel sides and rounded ends.
- rubber match — rubber2 (def 4)
- rugby tackle — A rugby tackle is a way of making someone fall over by throwing your arms around their legs or hips.
- sabermetrics — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
- sacher torte — a chocolate cake covered with apricot jam and chocolate icing, usually served with whipped cream.
- sacramentals — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
- sacramentary — a sacramentarian
- 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.
- saint-brieuc — a department in NW France. 2787 sq. mi. (7220 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Brieuc.
- salescritter — /sayls'kri"tr/ Pejorative hackerism for a computer salesperson. Hackers tell the following joke: Q. What's the difference between a used-car dealer and a computer salesman? A. The used-car dealer knows he's lying. [Some versions add: ...and probably knows how to drive.] This reflects the widespread hacker belief that salescritters are self-selected for stupidity (after all, if they had brains and the inclination to use them, they'd be in programming). The terms "salesthing" and "salesdroid" are also common. Compare marketroid, suit.
- sand cricket — Jerusalem cricket.
- scare quotes — quotation marks placed around a word or phrase to indicate that it should not be taken literally or automatically accepted as true
- scared stiff — terrified
- scarlet sage — a tender shrub, Salvia splendens, of Brazil, having ovate leaves and bell-shaped scarlet flowers.
- scatter plot — a graphic representation of bivariate data as a set of points in the plane that have Cartesian coordinates equal to corresponding values of the two variates.
- scatter shot — shot prepared for a weapon having a rifled bore or barrel.
- scatter-site — designating or of inexpensive, publicly owned or financed housing units scattered throughout middle-class residential areas
- scatteration — the act of scattering.
- scatterbrain — a person incapable of serious, connected thought.
- scattergraph — a graphic representation of bivariate data as a set of points in the plane that have Cartesian coordinates equal to corresponding values of the two variates.
- scatteringly — in a scattering manner
- scene master — (on a switchboard) a master switch that controls several lighting circuits.
- schoolmaster — a man who presides over or teaches in a school.
- scopes trial — John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
- scout leader — the leader of a troop of Scouts
- scratch file — A scratch file is a temporary computer file which you use as a work area or as a store while a program is operating.
- scratch line — a line that marks the start of a race.