12-letter words containing c, o, t, e, s, l
- sacred lotus — Indian lotus.
- sanctionable — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- sans-culotte — (in the French Revolution) a revolutionary of the poorer class: originally a term of contempt applied by the aristocrats but later adopted as a popular name by the revolutionaries.
- santalaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Santalaceae, a family of semiparasitic plants of Australia and Malaysia including sandalwood and quandong
- scatter plot — a graphic representation of bivariate data as a set of points in the plane that have Cartesian coordinates equal to corresponding values of the two variates.
- scent bottle — a bottle of perfume
- schoolmaster — a man who presides over or teaches in a school.
- 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.
- scots gaelic — Scottish Gaelic
- 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
- scrobiculate — furrowed or pitted.
- scutellation — a scutellate state or formation; a scaly covering, as on a bird's foot.
- seclusionist — a person who prefers to be alone or secluded
- secobarbital — a white, odorless, slightly bitter powder, C 1 2 H 1 8 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative and hypnotic.
- sectionalism — excessive regard for sectional or local interests; regional or local spirit, prejudice, etc.
- sectionalize — to render sectional.
- selectionist — a person who believes in natural selection
- self-conceit — an excessively favorable opinion of oneself, one's abilities, etc.; vanity.
- self-concept — the idea or mental image one has of oneself and one's strengths, weaknesses, status, etc.; self-image.
- self-content — satisfaction with oneself; self-complacency.
- self-control — control or restraint of oneself or one's actions, feelings, etc.
- semitropical — subtropical.
- servocontrol — control by means of a servomechanism.
- short splice — a splice used when an increased thickness of the united rope is not objectionable, made by unlaying the rope ends a certain distance, uniting them so that their strands overlap, then tucking each alternately over and under others several times.
- skeleton car — a freight car essentially consisting of a central longitudinal girder fastened to the trucks, sometimes supplemented by one or more pairs of cross cantilevers: used for carrying logs or containers.
- slash pocket — a pocket set into a garment, especially below the waistline, to which easy access is provided by an exterior, vertical or diagonal slit.
- 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.
- slot machine — a gambling machine operated by inserting coins into a slot and pulling a handle that activates a set of spinning symbols on wheels, the final alignment of which determines the payoff that is released into a receptacle at the bottom.
- smallclothes — men's close-fitting knee breeches of the 18th and 19th centuries
- 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
- somatic cell — one of the cells that take part in the formation of the body, becoming differentiated into the various tissues, organs, etc.
- somnolescent — sleepy
- sonnet cycle — a group of sonnets composed by one poet and having a unifying theme or subject.
- sorosilicate — any of the silicates in which each silicate tetrahedron shares one of its four oxygen atoms with a neighboring tetrahedron, the ratio of silicon to oxygen being two to seven.
- sothic cycle — (in the ancient Egyptian calendar) a period of 1460 Sothic years.
- south euclid — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- special sort — a character, such as an accented letter, that is not a usual member of any font
- speciational — relating to speciation
- spectatorial — a person who looks on or watches; onlooker; observer.
- spermatocele — a swelling of the testicle
- sphacelation — the process of mortification
- spirochaetal — resulting from spirochaetes
- split second — a fraction of a second.
- splotchiness — the state or condition of being splotchy
- sponge cloth — any cloth loosely woven of coarse yarn to produce a spongy look or texture, especially one constructed in honeycomb weave.
- state police — a police force under state authority rather than under the authority of a city or county in the state.
- state school — A state school is a school that is controlled and funded by the government or a local authority, and which children can attend without having to pay.
- stereocilium — any of the long, flexible microvilli that superficially resemble cilia and occur as a brush border or series of tufts on the surface of various epithelial tissues.