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12-letter words containing c, e, t, i, s

  • safety chain — a chain on the fastening of a bracelet, watch, etc, to ensure that it cannot open enough to fall off accidentally
  • 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.
  • sanctifiedly — in a sanctified manner
  • sanctionable — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • schindyletic — relating to the joint in which one bone is received into the cleft or slit of another bone
  • schizomycete — any of numerous microorganisms of the subkingdom (or phylum) Schizophyta, kingdom Monera, comprising the bacteria.
  • scitamineous — of or relating to the Scitimanae order of plants, which includes the ginger and banana plants
  • 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.
  • scots gaelic — Scottish Gaelic
  • 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.
  • screen print — artwork made by screen-printing
  • screen-print — a print made by the silkscreen process.
  • screenwriter — a person who writes screenplays, especially as an occupation or profession.
  • scribblement — a scribble
  • scriptwriter — a person who writes scripts, as for movies, radio, or television.
  • scrobiculate — furrowed or pitted.
  • scutellation — a scutellate state or formation; a scaly covering, as on a bird's foot.
  • secchi depth — the depth at which a Secchi disk is no longer visible from the surface of ocean water.
  • secessionist — a person who secedes, advocates secession, or claims secession as a constitutional right.
  • seclusionist — a person who prefers to be alone or secluded
  • secobarbital — a white, odorless, slightly bitter powder, C 1 2 H 1 8 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative and hypnotic.
  • second birth — spiritual rebirth.
  • second sight — the faculty of seeing future events; clairvoyance.
  • sectarianism — sectarian spirit or tendencies; excessive devotion to a particular sect, especially in religion.
  • sectarianize — to make sectarian.
  • section boss — the boss of a section gang.
  • section gang — a group of workers who take care of a section of railroad track.
  • section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
  • section mark — section (def 16).
  • sectionalism — excessive regard for sectional or local interests; regional or local spirit, prejudice, etc.
  • sectionalize — to render sectional.
  • security van — an armoured van used to transport money or other valuables
  • seed capital — small sum invested in new business
  • seismometric — of or relating to seismometry or a seismometer
  • seismonastic — of or relating to seismonasty
  • selectionist — a person who believes in natural selection
  • self-conceit — an excessively favorable opinion of oneself, one's abilities, etc.; vanity.
  • self-excited — noting a generator with magnets that are excited by the current it produces.
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