12-letter words containing c, l, o, s, e, d
- grade school — an elementary school that has its pupils grouped or classified into grades.
- hedge-school — a school held out of doors in favourable weather, indoors in winter
- homeschooled — Simple past tense and past participle of homeschool.
- hydroelastic — undergoing a change in elasticity as a result of the flow of water or another fluid
- iceland moss — an edible lichen, Cetraria islandica, of arctic regions, containing a starchlike substance used in medicine.
- indecorously — not decorous; violating generally accepted standards of good taste or propriety; unseemly.
- kaleidoscope — an optical instrument in which bits of glass, held loosely at the end of a rotating tube, are shown in continually changing symmetrical forms by reflection in two or more mirrors set at angles to each other.
- loco disease — locoism.
- maledictions — Plural form of malediction.
- mendaciously — In a lying or deceitful manner.
- milliseconds — Plural form of millisecond.
- misallocated — to allocate mistakenly or improperly: to misallocate resources.
- molluscicide — A substance that kills molluscs.
- mollycoddles — Plural form of mollycoddle.
- muscle-bound — having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.
- nickelodeons — Plural form of nickelodeon.
- non-selected — to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.
- nonscheduled — not scheduled; not entered on or having a schedule; unscheduled: nonscheduled activities.
- nucleocapsid — the nucleic acid core and surrounding capsid of a virus; the basic viral structure.
- nucleosidase — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of nucleosides.
- nucleotidase — a biochemical catalyst that facilitates the process of hydrolyzing or splitting a nucleotide and turning it into a phosphate and a nucleoside
- old chestnut — old saying, cliché
- peccadilloes — a very minor or slight sin or offense; a trifling fault.
- postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
- poster child — a child appearing on a poster for a charitable organization.
- pseudocereal — any of several plants, as buckwheat and quinoa, that produce fruits and seeds used as flour but are not of the grass family.
- pseudocoelom — the body cavity of certain invertebrate metazoan animals between the body wall and the intestine, which is not lined with a mesodermal epithelium.
- pseudoscalar — a scalar quantity that changes sign when the sense of the orientation of the coordinate system is changed.
- re-solicited — to seek for (something) by entreaty, earnest or respectful request, formal application, etc.: He solicited aid from the minister.
- 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.
- rose-colored — of rose color; rosy.
- rust-colored — of the color rust.
- sacred lotus — Indian lotus.
- saddle block — a type of spinal anaesthesia producing sensory loss in the buttocks, inner sides of the thighs, and perineum
- sclerodermic — of or relating to a scleroderm or to sclerodermia; hard-skinned
- scolopendrid — any myriapod of the order Scolopendrida, including many large, poisonous centipedes.
- scott-closed — A set S, a subset of D, is Scott-closed if (1) If Y is a subset of S and Y is directed then lub Y is in S and (2) If y <= s in S then y is in S. I.e. a Scott-closed set contains the lubs of its directed subsets and anything less than any element. (2) says that S is downward closed (or left closed). ("<=" is written in LaTeX as \sqsubseteq).
- scout leader — the leader of a troop of Scouts
- second floor — the floor or story above the ground floor.
- second world — the world's industrialized nations other than the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.
- second-class — of a secondary class or quality.
- self-colored — of one color.
- self-command — self-control.
- self-focused — a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity: The need to prevent a nuclear war became the focus of all diplomatic efforts.
- sexdecillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 51 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 96 zeros.
- shared logic — the sharing of a central processing unit and associated software among several terminals
- shellshocked — suffering from shellshock
- siderophilic — having characteristics of siderophile
- slide-action — (of a rifle or shotgun) having a lever that when slid back and forth ejects the empty case and cocks and reloads the piece.