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12-letter words containing c, r, e, d, i, t

  • resyndicated — a group of individuals or organizations combined or making a joint effort to undertake some specific duty or carry out specific transactions or negotiations: The local furniture store is individually owned, but is part of a buying syndicate.
  • retrodiction — the act or result of retrodicting
  • retrodictive — of or relating to retrodicting or retrodiction
  • revictualled — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
  • rhytidectomy — face-lift.
  • romanticized — interpreted according to romantic precepts
  • sand cricket — Jerusalem cricket.
  • scared stiff — terrified
  • second birth — spiritual rebirth.
  • side circuit — a circuit derived from two suitably arranged pairs of wires, each pair being a circuit (side circuit) and also acting as one half of an additional derived circuit, the entire system providing the capabilities of three circuits while requiring wires for only two.
  • 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
  • spermaticide — spermicide.
  • spermatocide — spermicide.
  • stearic acid — a colorless, waxlike, sparingly water-soluble, odorless solid, C 1 8 H 3 6 O 2 , the most common fatty acid, occurring as the glyceride in tallow and other animal fats and in some animal oils: used chiefly in the manufacture of soaps, stearates, candles, cosmetics, and in medicine in suppositories and pill coatings.
  • stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
  • 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.
  • strait-laced — excessively strict in conduct or morality; puritanical; prudish: strait-laced censors.
  • street child — Street children are homeless children who live outdoors in a city and live by begging or stealing.
  • subintroduce — to introduce subtly
  • teacher bird — the ovenbird, Seiurus aurocapillus, a songbird that builds a nest shaped like a dome.
  • terebic acid — an acid, C 7 H 10 O 4 , formed by the oxidation of certain terpenes and historically important in the discovery of the structures of many terpenes.
  • the in-crowd — fashionable people; top people
  • 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.
  • thunderstick — bull-roarer.
  • tradescantia — any plant of the American genus Tradescantia, widely cultivated for their striped variegated leaves: family Commelinaceae
  • tragi-comedy — A tragi-comedy is a play or other written work that is both sad and amusing.
  • transcending — to rise above or go beyond; overpass; exceed: to transcend the limits of thought; kindness transcends courtesy.
  • transdialect — to translate (speech, writing, etc.) into a different dialect.
  • tredecillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 42 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 78 zeros.
  • trial docket — docket (def 1).
  • trial-docket — Also called trial docket. a list of cases in court for trial, or the names of the parties who have cases pending.
  • trick ending — an ending of a story or play, etc., that employs a surprise element or character to resolve the plot.
  • trickle-down — of, relating to, or based on the trickle-down theory: the trickle-down benefits to the local community.
  • tricuspidate — having three cusps or flaps.
  • triglyceride — an ester obtained from glycerol by the esterification of three hydroxyl groups with fatty acids, naturally occurring in animal and vegetable tissues: an important energy source forming much of the fat stored by the body.
  • tropicalised — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
  • tropicalized — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
  • truck driver — sb employed to drive a lorry
  • turacoverdin — a green pigment found in certain feathers of the touraco
  • two-cylinder — (of an engine) having two cylinders
  • unaccredited — officially recognized as meeting the essential requirements, as of academic excellence: accredited schools.
  • uncalibrated — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
  • unchristened — not christened
  • uncirculated — to move in a circle or circuit; move or pass through a circuit back to the starting point: Blood circulates throughout the body.
  • uncreditable — of ignoble character
  • undemocratic — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
  • under-script — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
  • undercoating — a coat or jacket worn under another.
  • undercutting — to cut under or beneath.
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