12-letter words containing c, o, d
- roman candle — a firework consisting of a tube that sends out a shower of sparks and a succession of balls of fire.
- romanticized — interpreted according to romantic precepts
- 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.
- rough-voiced — having a harsh or grating voice: a rough-voiced barker.
- run commands — (operating system) The expansion of the file name suffix, "rc", common to many Unix configuration files, e.g. .newsrc, .cshrc, .twmrc, elmrc, etc. Always abbreviated to /R C/ when spoken. Note, "rc" is not a typical filename extension as it doesn't start with a dot. The suffix "rc" derives from a script-creation utility in CTSS called "runcom".
- rust-colored — of the color rust.
- saccharoidal — having a crystalline or granular texture: said esp. of some sandstones and marbles
- sacred lotus — Indian lotus.
- sacred order — Roman Catholic Church. major order.
- saddle block — a type of spinal anaesthesia producing sensory loss in the buttocks, inner sides of the thighs, and perineum
- safe conduct — If you are given safe conduct, the authorities officially allow you to travel somewhere, guaranteeing that you will not be arrested or harmed while doing so.
- safe-conduct — a document authorizing safe passage through a region, especially in time of war.
- sandrocottus — Greek name of Chandragupta.
- sapindaceous — belonging to the Sapindaceae, the soapberry family of plants.
- sarcoadenoma — adenosarcoma.
- sardonically — characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering: a sardonic grin.
- sausage code — (humour, programming) Code which, once you know the details of how it's made, you'll never want to use again.
- scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
- scandalously — disgraceful; shameful or shocking; improper: scandalous behavior in public.
- scarlatinoid — resembling scarlatina or its eruptions.
- schizopodous — of or relating to a schizopod
- school board — a local board or committee in charge of public education.
- sclerodermic — of or relating to a scleroderm or to sclerodermia; hard-skinned
- scolopendrid — any myriapod of the order Scolopendrida, including many large, poisonous centipedes.
- scot and lot — British History. a municipal tax assessed proportionately upon the members of a community.
- scott domain — An algebraic, boundedly complete, complete partial order. Often simply called a domain.
- 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).
- scouring pad — a small pad, as of steel wool or plastic mesh, used for scouring pots, pans, etc.
- scout around — search
- scout leader — the leader of a troop of Scouts
- scraperboard — scratchboard.
- scratchboard — a cardboard coated with impermeable white clay and covered by a layer of ink that is scratched or scraped in patterns revealing the white surface below.
- 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.
- scsi adaptor — (hardware) (Or "host adaptor") A device that communicates between a computer and its SCSI peripherals. The SCSI adaptor is usually assigned SCSI ID 7. It is often a separate card that is connected to the computer's bus (e.g. PCI, ISA, PCMCIA) though increasinly, SCSI adaptors are built in to the motherboard. Apart from being cheaper, busses like PCI are too slow to keep up with the newer SCSI standards like Ultra SCSI and Ultra-Wide SCSI. There are several varieties of SCSI (and their connectors) and an adaptor will not support them all. The performance of SCSI devices is limited by the speed of the SCSI adaptor and its connection to the computer. An adaptor that plugs into a parallel port is unlikely to be as fast as one incorporated into a motherboard. Fast adaptors use DMA or bus mastering. Some SCSI adaptors include a BIOS to allow PCs to boot from a SCSI hard disk, if their own BIOS supports it. Note that it is not a "SCSI controller" - it does not control the devices, and "SCSI interface" is redundant - the "I" of "SCSI" stands for "interface".
- 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
- second birth — spiritual rebirth.
- second floor — the floor or story above the ground floor.
- second grade — school year: age 7-8
- 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 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.
- second-guess — to use hindsight in criticizing or correcting.
- 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
- second-story — of or located on the second story or floor.