12-letter words containing c, o, s, t, e, d
- 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.
- 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 birth — spiritual rebirth.
- 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-story — of or located on the second story or floor.
- section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
- shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
- sixty-second — next after the sixty-first; being the ordinal number for 62.
- 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.
- smooth-faced — beardless; smooth-shaven.
- snake doctor — South Midland and Southern U.S. a dragonfly.
- snotty-faced — having visible nasal mucus on the face
- soft-centred — (of a chocolate or boiled sweet) having a centre consisting of cream, jelly, etc
- sole custody — custody, as of a child whose parents are separated, in which one person has sole responsibility.
- solid rocket — any of various rockets using solid fuel
- sorting code — a sequence of numbers printed on a cheque or embossed on a bank or building-society card that identifies the branch holding the account
- sound effect — any sound, other than music or speech, artificially reproduced to create an effect in a dramatic presentation, as the sound of a storm or a creaking door.
- south euclid — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- spermatocide — spermicide.
- split second — a fraction of a second.
- spotted cavy — paca.
- spotted dick — a steamed or boiled suet pudding containing dried fruit
- stapedectomy — a microsurgical procedure to relieve deafness by replacing the stapes of the ear with a prosthetic device.
- star-crossed — thwarted or opposed by the stars; ill-fated: star-crossed lovers.
- stock record — a record kept of the amount, type, etc., of raw materials and supplies on hand, as in a manufacturing plant.
- stock saddle — Western saddle.
- stockbreeder — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
- stockholders — Also called stockowner. a holder or owner of stock in a corporation.
- store credit — A store credit is a document offered by a store to a customer who returns an item not eligible for a refund. It can be used to buy other goods at the store.
- subdeaconate — subdiaconate.
- subdiaconate — the office or dignity of a subdeacon.
- subintroduce — to introduce subtly
- sugar-coated — Sugar-coated food is covered with a sweet substance made of sugar.
- suicide note — letter left by person ending own life
- superconduct — to conduct electricity very efficiently or without resistance, to act as a superconductor
- third sector — the segment of a nation's economy that is made up of neither public nor business concerns, as nonprofit health or educational institutions.
- trade school — a high school giving instruction chiefly in the skilled trades.
- tropicalised — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- tuberculosed — tuberculous
- unaccustomed — not accustomed or habituated: to be unaccustomed to hardships.
- unassociated — to connect or bring into relation, as thought, feeling, memory, etc.: Many people associate dark clouds with depression and gloom.
- under escort — with armed accompaniment
- underclothes — clothes worn under outer clothes.
- understocked — to provide an insufficient quantity, as of merchandise, supplies, or livestock.
- unforecasted — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- unobfuscated — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.