12-letter words containing c, l, e, r, i, s
- policeperson — a member of a police force.
- policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- poliorcetics — the science of siegecraft
- politicaster — an ill-suited or disliked politician
- polycentrism — the doctrine that a plurality of independent centers of leadership, power, or ideology may exist within a single political system, especially Communism.
- porcelainous — made of or resembling porcelain
- porcellanise — to bake into porcelain
- postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
- poster child — a child appearing on a poster for a charitable organization.
- precariously — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
- precessional — the act or fact of preceding; precedence.
- preclassical — occurring or existing in, produced during or characteristic of a period prior to the classical period
- precociously — unusually advanced or mature in development, especially mental development: a precocious child.
- preeclampsia — Pathology. a form of toxemia of pregnancy, characterized by hypertension, fluid retention, and albuminuria, sometimes progressing to eclampsia.
- preschooling — the education of preschool children.
- prescribable — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
- preselection — to select in advance; choose beforehand.
- primal scene — a child's first real or imagined observation of parental sexual intercourse.
- primulaceous — belonging to the plant family Primulaceae.
- problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
- processional — of, relating to, or characteristic of a procession.
- proclivities — natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.
- prolificness — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
- proscribable — to denounce or condemn (a thing) as dangerous or harmful; prohibit.
- prosectorial — characteristic of a prosector
- psi particle — any of a family of mesons consisting of a charmed quark and a charmed antiquark.
- quicksilvery — resembling quicksilver
- re-solicited — to seek for (something) by entreaty, earnest or respectful request, formal application, etc.: He solicited aid from the minister.
- recalibrates — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
- reclassified — to classify anew.
- rectirostral — (of a bird) having a straight bill.
- reg-symbolic — An early system on the IBM 704.
- reichsthaler — a silver thaler of Germany, originally issued in 1566; rix-dollar.
- relativistic — of or relating to relativity or relativism.
- rescheduling — the act of changing the time, date, or schedule of
- respectively — in precisely the order given; sequentially.
- ribonuclease — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of RNA.
- saccharinely — of the nature of or resembling that of sugar: a powdery substance with a saccharine taste.
- sacrilegious — pertaining to or involving sacrilege: sacrilegious practices.
- sacring bell — a small bell rung at the elevation of the Host and chalice during Mass
- 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.
- scalar field — a region with a number assigned at each point.
- scatteringly — in a scattering manner
- schererville — a town in NW Indiana.
- schiaparelli — Elsa [el-sah] /ˈɛl sɑ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1973, French fashion designer, born in Italy.
- sclerodermic — of or relating to a scleroderm or to sclerodermia; hard-skinned
- 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.
- 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.