12-letter words containing d, e, a, c, o
- scrive board — a floorlike construction on which the lines of a vessel can be drawn or scribed at full size.
- 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
- second grade — school year: age 7-8
- second-class — of a secondary class or quality.
- section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
- self-command — self-control.
- semi-nomadic — of, relating to, or characteristic of nomads.
- service road — frontage road.
- shadow dance — a dance in which shadows of the dancers are cast on a screen.
- shadow price — the calculated price of a good or service for which no market price exists
- shared logic — the sharing of a central processing unit and associated software among several terminals
- 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.
- snotty-faced — having visible nasal mucus on the face
- social media — websites and other online means of communication that are used by large groups of people to share information and to develop social and professional contacts: Many businesses are utilizing social media to generate sales.
- social order — structure or hierarchy of society
- soda cracker — a thin, crisp cracker or wafer prepared from a yeast dough that has been neutralized by baking soda.
- soldier crab — a small blue Australian estuarine crab of the Mictyris genus usually found in large numbers
- sound camera — a motion-picture camera that is capable of photographing silently at the normal speed of 24 fps and operating in synchronization with separate audio recording equipment.
- sound change — any phonetic or phonological change in spoken language, for example the replacement of one speech sound with another, or the loss of a particular sound
- spermatocide — spermicide.
- spotted cavy — paca.
- 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.
- stock saddle — Western saddle.
- subdeaconate — subdiaconate.
- subdiaconate — the office or dignity of a subdeacon.
- succedaneous — a substitute.
- sugar-coated — Sugar-coated food is covered with a sweet substance made of sugar.
- surface road — a road or street level with its surroundings: surface roads and elevated highways.
- 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.
- 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 ordnance — a department of an army or government dealing with military supplies
- thread count — thread density of a woven fabric
- tonnage deck — the upper deck in a vessel with only two decks.
- track record — a record of achievements or performance: an executive with a good track record.
- tractor feed — Computers. a mechanism for aligning and transporting paper for a printer by means of pins that catch in perforations along the edges of the paper.
- trade school — a high school giving instruction chiefly in the skilled trades.
- tragi-comedy — A tragi-comedy is a play or other written work that is both sad and amusing.
- 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.
- tropicalised — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- tropicalized — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- turacoverdin — a green pigment found in certain feathers of the touraco
- turbocharged — with additional power from turbine
- turned comma — quotation mark.
- unaccustomed — not accustomed or habituated: to be unaccustomed to hardships.
- unapproached — not approached; not able to be approached or neared