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12-letter words containing d, e, a, s, i

  • sandpapering — the act or process of polishing or grinding a surface with or as if with sandpaper
  • sapindaceous — belonging to the Sapindaceae, the soapberry family of plants.
  • scalar field — a region with a number assigned at each point.
  • scared stiff — terrified
  • scheme-linda — A Scheme interface to Linda written by Ulf Dahlen of University of Edinburgh in 1990. It runs on the Computing Surface and the Symmetry.
  • schneiderman — Rose, 1884–1972, U.S. labor leader, born in Poland.
  • scrieveboard — the drawing board of a shipbuilder
  • scrimshander — a person who makes scrimshaw objects.
  • scrive board — a floorlike construction on which the lines of a vessel can be drawn or scribed at full size.
  • sea bindweed — a species of bindweed, Calystegia soldanella, which grows on beaches in E North America, Europe, and Asia
  • seam binding — a narrow strip of fabric attached to the unfinished edge of a seam or hem to keep it from raveling.
  • sebacic acid — a crystalline, slightly water-soluble, dibasic acid, C 1 0 H 1 8 O 4 , usually obtained from castor oil: used chiefly in the manufacture of plasticizers and resins.
  • secd machine — Stack Environment Control Dump machine
  • section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
  • sedge family — the plant family Cyperaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, often found in wet areas, having solid stems, narrow, grasslike leaves with closed sheaths, spikes of very small flowers set in a scalelike bract, and a dry, flattened, convex fruit, and including the bulrush, chufa, cotton grass, papyrus, and umbrella plant.
  • sedimentable — capable of forming sediment
  • see daylight — the light of day: At the end of the tunnel they could see daylight.
  • seed capital — small sum invested in new business
  • selenic acid — a crystalline, water-soluble, strong, corrosive, dibasic acid, H 2 SeO 4 , resembling sulfuric acid.
  • self-damning — causing incrimination: damning evidence.
  • self-dealing — financial transaction conducted on a personal, nonbusinesslike basis, as lending or borrowing of corporate money by a director.
  • self-disdain — to look upon or treat with contempt; despise; scorn.
  • self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
  • self-loading — noting or pertaining to an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
  • self-reading — the action or practice of a person who reads.
  • semi-dormant — lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid: The lecturer's sudden shout woke the dormant audience.
  • semi-invalid — a person who is partially disabled or somewhat infirm
  • semi-nomadic — of, relating to, or characteristic of nomads.
  • semiattached — partially attached; semidetached.
  • semidarkness — partial darkness.
  • semidetached — partly detached.
  • semidiameter — half of a diameter; radius.
  • semidominant — producing an intermediate, heterozygous phenotype
  • send packing — to dismiss peremptorily
  • sendai virus — a paramyxovirus that tends to cause cell fusion: in inactive form, used in biological research to produce cells with multiple nuclei of different genetic constitutions.
  • serial bonds — Serial bonds are bonds that are issued at the same time but have staggered maturity dates.
  • service road — frontage road.
  • 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
  • shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
  • sharp-witted — having or showing mental acuity; intellectually discerning; acute.
  • sherardizing — to coat (steel) with a thin cladding of zinc by heating in a mixture of sand and powdered zinc.
  • shield match — a cricket match for the Sheffield Shield
  • shirt-tailed — (of a garment) having a shirt-tail
  • short-haired — having short hair
  • sialadenitis — inflammation of one or more of the salivary glands.
  • side against — one of the surfaces forming the outside of or bounding a thing, or one of the lines bounding a geometric figure.
  • sidereal day — the interval between two successive passages of the vernal equinox over the meridian, being about four minutes shorter than a mean solar day.
  • siderography — the art or technique of engraving on steel.
  • sierra madre — a mountain range extending from S Wyoming into N Colorado.
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