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12-letter words containing c, a, t, e, r, i

  • retrophiliac — someone who has a strong liking for things from the past
  • revictualled — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
  • rhetorically — used for, belonging to, or concerned with mere style or effect.
  • romanticized — interpreted according to romantic precepts
  • sabermetrics — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
  • 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.
  • scared stiff — terrified
  • 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.
  • scatteringly — in a scattering manner
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • scrobiculate — furrowed or pitted.
  • secobarbital — a white, odorless, slightly bitter powder, C 1 2 H 1 8 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative and hypnotic.
  • sectarianism — sectarian spirit or tendencies; excessive devotion to a particular sect, especially in religion.
  • sectarianize — to make sectarian.
  • section mark — section (def 16).
  • security van — an armoured van used to transport money or other valuables
  • semiabstract — of or relating to art or sculpture which is abstract but in which the subject can still be recognized
  • semitropical — subtropical.
  • separatrices — something that divides or separates, as the line between light and dark areas on a partially illuminated surface.
  • seroreaction — any reaction occurring in serum.
  • service flat — an apartment with complete hotel services.
  • shirt jacket — a shirtlike jacket.
  • single track — a single pair of lines so that trains can travel in only one direction at a time
  • single-track — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
  • sitka spruce — a spruce, Picea sitchensis, of western North America, having long, silvery-white needles, grown as an ornamental.
  • skirt chaser — a womanizer.
  • skirt-chaser — a womanizer.
  • smart cookie — intelligent or sharp-witted person
  • sorbefacient — inducing absorption
  • sorosilicate — any of the silicates in which each silicate tetrahedron shares one of its four oxygen atoms with a neighboring tetrahedron, the ratio of silicon to oxygen being two to seven.
  • space writer — a journalist or copywriter paid according to a space rate. Also called space man. Compare stringer (def 6).
  • special sort — a character, such as an accented letter, that is not a usual member of any font
  • special term — the sitting of a court for the trial of a special case.
  • spectatorial — a person who looks on or watches; onlooker; observer.
  • speculatrice — a female speculator
  • spermaphytic — able to produce seeds
  • spermaticide — spermicide.
  • spermatocide — spermicide.
  • sphericality — the state of being a sphere
  • sphincterial — relating to a sphincter
  • spirochaetal — resulting from spirochaetes
  • static water — water collected and stored in reservoirs, tanks, etc., as for urban use.
  • 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.
  • stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
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