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12-letter words containing d, e, c, l, a, s

  • kaleidoscope — an optical instrument in which bits of glass, held loosely at the end of a rotating tube, are shown in continually changing symmetrical forms by reflection in two or more mirrors set at angles to each other.
  • knuckleheads — Plural form of knucklehead.
  • lapidescence — a lapidescent quality or condition
  • lead a chase — to go before or with to show the way; conduct or escort: to lead a group on a cross-country hike.
  • lead crystal — cut glass containing lead oxide
  • leading case — a case that is regarded as having settled a particular point of law; a case that is used as guidance for legal decisions
  • leeds castle — a castle near Maidstone in Kent: the home of several medieval queens of England
  • linseed cake — a cake or a mass made by expressing the oil from linseed, used chiefly as feed for cattle.
  • loco disease — locoism.
  • macclesfield — a market town in NW England, in Cheshire: former centre of the silk industry; pharmaceuticals, services. Pop: 50 688 (2001)
  • maledictions — Plural form of malediction.
  • masculinized — Simple past tense and past participle of masculinize.
  • mendaciously — In a lying or deceitful manner.
  • middle class — educated and well off
  • middle-class — of, relating to, or characteristic of the middle class; bourgeois: middle-class taste; middle-class morality.
  • misallocated — to allocate mistakenly or improperly: to misallocate resources.
  • musical ride — a display by riders on horseback of manoeuvres to music, esp by members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
  • nested class — (Java)   In Java, a class defined within an enclosing class definition. A static nested class has no direct access to the members of its enclosing class whereas a non-static nested class, known as an "inner class", is associated with an instance of the enclosing class and an instance of the inner class has direct access to the members of its enclosing instance.
  • nucleocapsid — the nucleic acid core and surrounding capsid of a virus; the basic viral structure.
  • nucleosidase — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of nucleosides.
  • nucleotidase — a biochemical catalyst that facilitates the process of hydrolyzing or splitting a nucleotide and turning it into a phosphate and a nucleoside
  • peccadilloes — a very minor or slight sin or offense; a trifling fault.
  • plaid screen — [XEROX PARC] A "special effect" that occurs when certain kinds of memory smashes overwrite the control blocks or image memory of a bit-mapped display. The term "salt and pepper" may refer to a different pattern of similar origin. Though the term as coined at PARC refers to the result of an error, some of the X demos induce plaid-screen effects deliberately as a display hack.
  • plattdeutsch — the Low German vernacular dialects spoken in northern Germany.
  • postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
  • pseudocereal — any of several plants, as buckwheat and quinoa, that produce fruits and seeds used as flour but are not of the grass family.
  • pseudoscalar — a scalar quantity that changes sign when the sense of the orientation of the coordinate system is changed.
  • re-landscape — a section or expanse of rural scenery, usually extensive, that can be seen from a single viewpoint.
  • reclassified — to classify anew.
  • rocket salad — rocket2 (def 2).
  • rocket-salad — any of various plants belonging to the genus Hesperis, of the mustard family, and related genera. Compare dame's rocket.
  • sacred lotus — Indian lotus.
  • saddle block — a type of spinal anaesthesia producing sensory loss in the buttocks, inner sides of the thighs, and perineum
  • salicylamide — a compound of ammonia and gualtheria oil
  • sanctifiedly — in a sanctified manner
  • scabbardless — lacking a scabbard or a sheath for a sword or dagger
  • scalar field — a region with a number assigned at each point.
  • 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.
  • schmalkalden — a town in central Germany: a league to defend Protestantism formed here 1531.
  • scout leader — the leader of a troop of Scouts
  • scrap dealer — a person who deals in scrap
  • second-class — of a secondary class or quality.
  • seed capital — small sum invested in new business
  • seed capsule — the part of a fruit enclosing the seeds; pericarp
  • selenic acid — a crystalline, water-soluble, strong, corrosive, dibasic acid, H 2 SeO 4 , resembling sulfuric acid.
  • self-command — self-control.
  • self-created — to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.
  • shamefacedly — modest or bashful.
  • shared logic — the sharing of a central processing unit and associated software among several terminals
  • shield match — a cricket match for the Sheffield Shield
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