12-letter words containing d, a, c, t
- 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.
- screw thread — Also called worm. the helical ridge of a screw.
- scsi adaptor — (hardware) (Or "host adaptor") A device that communicates between a computer and its SCSI peripherals. The SCSI adaptor is usually assigned SCSI ID 7. It is often a separate card that is connected to the computer's bus (e.g. PCI, ISA, PCMCIA) though increasinly, SCSI adaptors are built in to the motherboard. Apart from being cheaper, busses like PCI are too slow to keep up with the newer SCSI standards like Ultra SCSI and Ultra-Wide SCSI. There are several varieties of SCSI (and their connectors) and an adaptor will not support them all. The performance of SCSI devices is limited by the speed of the SCSI adaptor and its connection to the computer. An adaptor that plugs into a parallel port is unlikely to be as fast as one incorporated into a motherboard. Fast adaptors use DMA or bus mastering. Some SCSI adaptors include a BIOS to allow PCs to boot from a SCSI hard disk, if their own BIOS supports it. Note that it is not a "SCSI controller" - it does not control the devices, and "SCSI interface" is redundant - the "I" of "SCSI" stands for "interface".
- section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
- seed capital — small sum invested in new business
- self-created — to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.
- semiattached — partially attached; semidetached.
- semidetached — partly detached.
- shield match — a cricket match for the Sheffield Shield
- shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
- 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.
- snatch squad — a squad of soldiers or police trained to deal with demonstrations by picking out and arresting the alleged ringleaders
- snotty-faced — having visible nasal mucus on the face
- soda biscuit — a biscuit having soda and sour milk or buttermilk as leavening agents.
- solidaristic — relating to solidarism
- spermaticide — spermicide.
- spermatocide — spermicide.
- spotted cavy — paca.
- stacked heel — a shoe heel constructed from several layers of material.
- standing cup — a tall decorative cup of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, having a raised cover.
- stannic acid — any of the series of acids usually occurring as amorphous powders and varying in composition from H 2 SnO 3 (alpha-stannic acid) to H 4 SnO 4 .
- 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.
- starchedness — the condition or quality of being starched
- stated clerk — an administrative official in the Presbyterian Church and certain other Protestant churches
- 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.
- stick around — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- stock saddle — Western saddle.
- straddleback — astride, on horseback
- strait-laced — excessively strict in conduct or morality; puritanical; prudish: strait-laced censors.
- student card — a card verifying somebody's identity as a university student and entitling them to services, discounts, etc
- subdeaconate — subdiaconate.
- subdiaconate — the office or dignity of a subdeacon.
- subduplicate — of the square root of ratios
- sugar-coated — Sugar-coated food is covered with a sweet substance made of sugar.
- suicide pact — an agreement between two or more people to commit suicide together.
- syndactylism — having certain digits joined together.
- syndactylous — having fingers, or toes, united
- syndiotactic — (of a polymer molecule) having a regular alternation of opposite configurations at successive regularly spaced positions along the chain. See also configuration (def 4).
- tack welding — to join (pieces of metal) with a number of small welds spaced some distance apart.
- taxi dancing — a system, as in a dance hall or hotel, whereby a person pays for a partner (taxi dancer) for a dance, payment being required for each individual dance during an evening
- teacher bird — the ovenbird, Seiurus aurocapillus, a songbird that builds a nest shaped like a dome.
- teaching aid — material used by a teacher to supplement classroom instruction or to stimulate the interest of students.
- technobandit — a person who steals technological secrets, as from the government or a place of employment, and sells them to agents of foreign governments or to competing firms.
- 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.
- testiculated — like a testicle, esp in shape
- tetradactyly — the condition of having four fingers or toes