12-letter words containing c, r, e, a, t, o
- seroreaction — any reaction occurring in serum.
- shatter cone — a cone-shaped fragment of rock, probably formed by violent shock waves, as from meteoritic impact or atomic explosions
- sheet anchor — Nautical. a large anchor used only in cases of emergency.
- short-change — to give less than the correct change to.
- shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
- 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.
- smart cookie — intelligent or sharp-witted person
- snake doctor — South Midland and Southern U.S. a dragonfly.
- soft chancre — chancroid.
- sorbefacient — inducing absorption
- 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.
- spatter cone — a low, steep-sided volcanic cone built up of droplets or blobs of lava erupted from a fissure or vent.
- special sort — a character, such as an accented letter, that is not a usual member of any font
- spectatorial — a person who looks on or watches; onlooker; observer.
- spectrograph — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
- spermatocele — a swelling of the testicle
- spermatocide — spermicide.
- spermatocyte — a male germ cell (primary spermatocyte) that gives rise by meiosis to a pair of haploid cells (secondary spermatocytes) that give rise in turn to spermatids.
- spirochaetal — resulting from spirochaetes
- sport jacket — A sport jacket is the same as a sport coat.
- sportscaster — A sportscaster is a radio or television broadcaster who describes or comments on sporting events.
- star-crossed — thwarted or opposed by the stars; ill-fated: star-crossed lovers.
- stegocarpous — (of a moss) belonging to the division Stegocarpi, having an operculate capsule
- stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
- stercoranism — the belief that the consecrated Eucharistic elements, the bread and wine, are subject to decay and pass through the body like other ingested things
- stercoranist — a person who believes in stercoranism
- stereoacuity — the ability of a person to see objects as separate entities along a range of distances
- stereocamera — a stereoscopic camera.
- stereoptican — a projector usually consisting of two complete lanterns arranged so that one picture appears to dissolve while the next is forming.
- stereotactic — movement of an organism in response to contact with a solid.
- sternocostal — of, relating to, or situated between the sternum and ribs.
- stock market — a particular market where stocks and bonds are traded; stock exchange.
- storage cell — a cell whose energy can be renewed by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to that of the flow of current generated by the cell.
- storm cellar — a cellar or underground chamber for refuge during violent storms; cyclone cellar.
- styracaceous — belonging to the Styracaceae, the storax family of plants.
- sugar-coated — Sugar-coated food is covered with a sweet substance made of sugar.
- swagger coat — a woman's pyramid-shaped coat with a full flared back and usually raglan sleeves, first popularized in the 1930s.
- take care of — a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern: He was never free from care.
- technocratic — of, relating to, or designating a technocrat or technocracy.
- technography — the description and study of the arts and sciences in their geographical and ethnic distribution and historical development.
- testificator — a person who witnesses
- tetrachotomy — the segmentation of something into four parts
- tetramorphic — (in art) of or related to a composite representation of the four evangelists' symbols
- the cold war — the period (1945-91) of cold war between the Soviet Union and its Communist allies and the U.S. and its non-Communist allies
- the creation — God's act of bringing the universe into being
- the ordnance — a department of an army or government dealing with military supplies
- the-overcoat — a short story (1842) by Gogol.
- theanthropic — of or relating to both God or a god and human beings; both divine and human.
- theocratical — a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, the God's or deity's laws being interpreted by the ecclesiastical authorities.
- theoretician — a person who deals with or is expert in the theoretical side of a subject: a military theoretician.