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12-letter words containing c, h, e, d

  • scheherazade — (in The Arabian Nights' Entertainments) the wife of the sultan of India, who relates such interesting tales nightly that the sultan spares her life.
  • scheme-linda — A Scheme interface to Linda written by Ulf Dahlen of University of Edinburgh in 1990. It runs on the Computing Surface and the Symmetry.
  • schindylesis — an articulation or fibrous joint in which one bone is received into the cleft or slit of another bone
  • schindyletic — relating to the joint in which one bone is received into the cleft or slit of another bone
  • schmalkalden — a town in central Germany: a league to defend Protestantism formed here 1531.
  • schneiderman — Rose, 1884–1972, U.S. labor leader, born in Poland.
  • screw thread — Also called worm. the helical ridge of a screw.
  • scrimshander — a person who makes scrimshaw objects.
  • 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
  • secchi depth — the depth at which a Secchi disk is no longer visible from the surface of ocean water.
  • secd machine — Stack Environment Control Dump machine
  • second birth — spiritual rebirth.
  • second reich — the German Empire 1871–1919.
  • second sheet — a sheet of blank stationery, used in a letter as the second and following pages to a sheet having a letterhead.
  • second sight — the faculty of seeing future events; clairvoyance.
  • second teeth — the teeth which replace the milk teeth
  • second-homer — a person who owns another house in addition to their main home, often in an area where they are not native and used as a holiday home
  • section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
  • semiattached — partially attached; semidetached.
  • semidetached — partly detached.
  • shadow dance — a dance in which shadows of the dancers are cast on a screen.
  • shadow price — the calculated price of a good or service for which no market price exists
  • shamefacedly — modest or bashful.
  • shared logic — the sharing of a central processing unit and associated software among several terminals
  • shellshocked — suffering from shellshock
  • shelter deck — a weather deck covering a space not considered fully watertight.
  • shield match — a cricket match for the Sheffield Shield
  • shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
  • siderochrome — any of various chemical compounds functioning in the transport of iron in bacteria.
  • siderophilic — having characteristics of siderophile
  • smooth-faced — beardless; smooth-shaven.
  • sound change — any phonetic or phonological change in spoken language, for example the replacement of one speech sound with another, or the loss of a particular sound
  • south euclid — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
  • speech sound — any of the set of distinctive sounds of a given language. Compare phoneme.
  • stacked heel — a shoe heel constructed from several layers of material.
  • starchedness — the condition or quality of being starched
  • stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
  • stockholders — Also called stockowner. a holder or owner of stock in a corporation.
  • street child — Street children are homeless children who live outdoors in a city and live by begging or stealing.
  • sun-drenched — Sun-drenched places have a lot of hot sunshine.
  • supercharged — equipped with a supercharger.
  • synecdochism — the use of synecdoche
  • teacher bird — the ovenbird, Seiurus aurocapillus, a songbird that builds a nest shaped like a dome.
  • teaching aid — material used by a teacher to supplement classroom instruction or to stimulate the interest of students.
  • technobandit — a person who steals technological secrets, as from the government or a place of employment, and sells them to agents of foreign governments or to competing firms.
  • tetradrachma — a silver coin of ancient Greece, equal to four drachmas.
  • the cold war — the period (1945-91) of cold war between the Soviet Union and its Communist allies and the U.S. and its non-Communist allies
  • the deceased — the dead person or persons
  • the distance — the most distant or a faraway part of the visible scene or landscape
  • the in-crowd — fashionable people; top people
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