12-letter words containing c, a, t, s, i
- reactiveness — tending to react.
- reactivities — the quality or condition of being reactive.
- recalibrates — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
- reciprocates — to give, feel, etc., in return.
- rectirostral — (of a bird) having a straight bill.
- reichsthaler — a silver thaler of Germany, originally issued in 1566; rix-dollar.
- relativistic — of or relating to relativity or relativism.
- res judicata — a thing adjudicated; a case that has been decided.
- 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.
- retranscribe — to make a written copy, especially a typewritten copy, of (dictated material, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material).
- risk capital — venture capital.
- sabermetrics — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
- saccharinity — of the nature of or resembling that of sugar: a powdery substance with a saccharine taste.
- sacroiliitis — the inflammation of the sacroiliac joint
- sacrosciatic — of the sacrum and the ischium
- sadistically — pertaining to or characterized by sadism; deriving pleasure or sexual gratification from extreme cruelty: a sadistic psychopath.
- safety chain — a chain on the fastening of a bracelet, watch, etc, to ensure that it cannot open enough to fall off accidentally
- saint lucian — of or relating to Saint Lucia, an island state in the Caribbean
- 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.
- salification — to form into a salt, as by chemical combination.
- sanctifiedly — in a sanctified manner
- sanctionable — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- sand casting — Sand casting is a process in which a molten metal is poured into a mold made from sand.
- sand cricket — Jerusalem cricket.
- sanity check — (programming) 1. Checking code (or anything else, e.g. a Usenet posting) for completely stupid mistakes. Implies that the check is to make sure the author was sane when it was written; e.g. if a piece of scientific software relied on a particular formula and was giving unexpected results, one might first look at the nesting of parentheses or the coding of the formula, as a "sanity check", before looking at the more complex I/O or data structure manipulation routines, much less the algorithm itself. Compare reality check. 2. A run-time test, either validating input or ensuring that the program hasn't screwed up internally (producing an inconsistent value or state).
- sansculottic — relating to sansculottes
- santa monica — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles, on Santa Monica Bay: resort.
- sarcomatosis — the condition in which a sarcoma has become disseminated throughout the body.
- satin stitch — a long, straight embroidery stitch worked closely parallel in rows to form a pattern that resembles satin.
- satisfaction — an act of satisfying; fulfillment; gratification.
- satisfactory — giving or affording satisfaction; fulfilling all demands or requirements: a satisfactory solution.
- satyromaniac — a lascivious man; lecher.
- scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
- scale insect — any of numerous small, plant-sucking homopterous insects of the superfamily Coccoidea, the males of which are winged and the females wingless, often covered by a waxy secretion resembling scales.
- scalp lotion — A scalp lotion is a liquid medication for the treatment of scalp conditions and disorders.
- scapegoating — the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself.
- scapegoatism — the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself.
- scared stiff — terrified
- scarificator — a person who scarifies.
- scarlatinoid — resembling scarlatina or its eruptions.
- scat singing — singing in which the singer substitutes improvised nonsense syllables for the words of a song, and tries to sound and phrase like a musical instrument.
- scatological — the study of or preoccupation with excrement or obscenity.
- 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
- schistosomal — relating to or characteristic of a schistosome or member of the genus Schistosoma