12-letter words containing c, e, s, o, r
- resurrection — the act of rising from the dead.
- resuscitator — a person or thing that resuscitates.
- retrocession — to cede back: to retrocede a territory.
- ribonuclease — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of RNA.
- road surface — the surface of the road, often asphalt
- rock jasmine — any of several alpine plants belonging to the genus Androsace, of the primrose family, having tufted leaves often in basal rosettes, and umbels of pink, red, purple, or white flowers.
- rock lobster — spiny lobster.
- rock-shelter — a shallow cave or cavelike area, as one formed by an overhanging cliff or standing rocks, occupied by Stone Age peoples, possibly for extended periods.
- 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.
- roncesvalles — a village in N Spain, in the Pyrenees: defeat of part of Charlemagne's army and the death of Roland a.d.
- room service — the serving of food, drinks, etc., to a guest in his or her room, as at a hotel.
- rose campion — a plant, Lychnis coronaria, of the pink family, having reddish purple flowers, and leaves covered with whitish down.
- rose-colored — of rose color; rosy.
- rosh chodesh — the beginning of a new month in the Jewish calendar, celebrated in a specified manner during the morning service in the synagogue.
- rust-colored — of the color rust.
- sacher torte — a chocolate cake covered with apricot jam and chocolate icing, usually served with whipped cream.
- sacred lotus — Indian lotus.
- sacred order — Roman Catholic Church. major order.
- sacrilegious — pertaining to or involving sacrilege: sacrilegious practices.
- saffron rice — a dish made from white rice and flavoured with the spice saffron
- sarcoadenoma — adenosarcoma.
- scare quotes — quotation marks placed around a word or phrase to indicate that it should not be taken literally or automatically accepted as true
- 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.
- scatteration — the act of scattering.
- scenographic — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
- schizophrene — a person with schizophrenia or one who tends toward schizophrenia
- schoenheimer — Rudolf [roo-dolf;; German roo-dawlf] /ˈru dɒlf;; German ˈru dɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1898–1941, U.S. biochemist, born in Germany.
- schoolmaster — a man who presides over or teaches in a school.
- schooner rig — a rig in which the mainmast is taller than the foremast
- schopenhauer — Arthur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1788–1860, German philosopher.
- schussboomer — a skier who is skilled at schussing.
- sclerodermic — of or relating to a scleroderm or to sclerodermia; hard-skinned
- sclerophylly — the normal development of much sclerenchyma in the leaves of certain plants, as some desert plants, resulting in thickened, hardened foliage that resists loss of moisture.
- scolopendrid — any myriapod of the order Scolopendrida, including many large, poisonous centipedes.
- 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.
- scorekeeping — an official of a sports contest who keeps record of the score.
- scout leader — the leader of a troop of Scouts
- scraperboard — scratchboard.
- screen actor — a film actor
- screw around — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
- scrieveboard — the drawing board of a shipbuilder
- scrive board — a floorlike construction on which the lines of a vessel can be drawn or scribed at full size.
- scrobiculate — furrowed or pitted.
- sea crossing — a journey by sea from one coast to another
- sea scorpion — scorpionfish.
- search order — an injunction allowing a person to enter the premises of another to search for and take copies of evidence required for a court case, used esp in cases of infringement of copyright
- season creep — the gradual changing in the length of the seasons, as demonstrated by earlier flowering of plants, etc, thought by many to be caused by climate change
- secobarbital — a white, odorless, slightly bitter powder, C 1 2 H 1 8 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative and hypnotic.