12-letter words containing c, r, a, s, h
- sacred heart — the physical heart of Jesus, to which special devotion is offered as a symbol of His love and redemptive sacrifice.
- sandwich bar — a place where sandwiches are sold
- sarcophagous — carnivorous.
- scabbardfish — any of several marine fishes having a long, compressed, silvery body, especially a cutlassfish, Trichiurus lepturus, of the western Atlantic.
- scatter shot — shot prepared for a weapon having a rifled bore or barrel.
- scattergraph — 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.
- scenographic — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
- scheherazade — (in The Arabian Nights' Entertainments) the wife of the sultan of India, who relates such interesting tales nightly that the sultan spares her life.
- schiaparelli — Elsa [el-sah] /ˈɛl sɑ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1973, French fashion designer, born in Italy.
- schizocarpic — a dry, dehiscent fruit that at maturity splits into two or more one-seeded carpels.
- schneiderman — Rose, 1884–1972, U.S. labor leader, born in Poland.
- school board — a local board or committee in charge of public education.
- school prawn — a common olive-green prawn, Metapenaeus macleayi
- school shark — an Australian shark resembling the tope, Notogaleus australis
- schoolmaster — a man who presides over or teaches in a school.
- schopenhauer — Arthur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1788–1860, German philosopher.
- scintigraphy — the process of producing a scintigram.
- sclerenchyma — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
- scotch grain — a coarse, pebble-grained finish given to heavy leather, esp. for men's shoes
- scram switch — (jargon) (From the nuclear power industry) An emergency power-off switch (see Big Red Switch), especially one positioned to be easily hit by evacuating personnel. In general, this is *not* something you frob lightly; these often initiate expensive events (such as Halon dumps) and are installed in a dinosaur pen for use in case of electrical fire or in case some luckless field servoid should put 120 volts across himself while Easter egging. SCRAM stands for Safety Control Rod Ax Man. In the early days of nuclear power, boron moderator rods were raised and lowered on ropes. In the event of a runaway chain reaction, a man with an axe would chop the rope and drop the rods into the nuclear pile to stop the reaction. See also molly-guard, TMRC.
- scratch card — a card or ticket having one or more sections coated with an opaque substance that can be scratched off to reveal a possible prize.
- scratch coat — (in plastering) a rough, deeply scored first coat upon which the brown coat is laid.
- scratch disk — 1. (storage) See scratch. 2. (operating system) Unallocated space on Windows 95's primary hard disk partition, used for virtual memory. Shortage of space on this partition can result in the error "scratch disk full".
- 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.
- scratch mark — the mark left by a scratch
- scratch race — a race in which all contestants start on equal terms
- scratch tape — a magnetic tape that is used for temporary storage, which may be erased and re-used
- scratch test — a test for a suspected allergy in which the skin is scratched and an allergen applied to the area, redness indicating a positive reaction.
- 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.
- scratchbuild — to build a scale model of something from scratch, that is, from raw materials like wood, clay or paper
- scratchbuilt — describing something which has been constructed by scratchbuilding
- scratchingly — in a scratching manner, with a scratching action
- scratchpad i — (language) A general-purpose language originally for interactive symbolic mathematics by Richard Jenks, Barry Trager, Stephen M. Watt and Robert S. Sutor of IBM Research, ca 1971. It features abstract parametrised data types, multiple inheritance and polymorphism. There were implementations for VM/CMS and AIX.
- scratchplate — a plastic or metal plate attached to the front of a guitar to protect it from pick scratches
- scratchproof — resistant to scratches.
- screw thread — Also called worm. the helical ridge of a screw.
- scrimshander — a person who makes scrimshaw objects.
- scrimshanker — a shirker
- scrophularia — a member of a genus of flowering plants which have a square stem and are known as figworts
- scutch grass — Bermuda grass.
- sea crawfish — spiny lobster
- sea crayfish — spiny lobster.
- 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
- search party — a group of persons conducting an organized search for someone or something lost or hidden.
- seraphically — of, like, or befitting a seraph.
- shadow price — the calculated price of a good or service for which no market price exists
- shamrock-pea — a trailing plant, Parochetus communis, of the legume family, native to Asia and east Africa, having shamrocklike leaves with a brown crescent at the base and pea-shaped, pink and blue flowers.
- sharecropper — a tenant farmer who pays as rent a share of the crop.
- shared logic — the sharing of a central processing unit and associated software among several terminals