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12-letter words containing d, e, c, r, s, n

  • noticeboards — Plural form of noticeboard.
  • on the cards — likely
  • overconsumed — Simple past tense and past participle of overconsume.
  • overdiscount — to discount excessively
  • parascending — parasailing
  • periodontics — the branch of dentistry dealing with the study and treatment of diseases of the periodontium.
  • 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.
  • pre-discount — to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.): All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at two percent.
  • presentenced — Grammar. a grammatical unit of one or more words that expresses an independent statement, question, request, command, exclamation, etc., and that typically has a subject as well as a predicate, as in John is here. or Is John here? In print or writing, a sentence typically begins with a capital letter and ends with appropriate punctuation; in speech it displays recognizable, communicative intonation patterns and is often marked by preceding and following pauses.
  • prices index — an official list of the price of goods
  • proboscidean — pertaining to or resembling a proboscis.
  • radar screen — a screen on equipment used in radar, a method for detecting the position and velocity of a distant object
  • re-landscape — a section or expanse of rural scenery, usually extensive, that can be seen from a single viewpoint.
  • rechristened — to receive into the Christian church by baptism; baptize.
  • recrudescent — breaking out afresh or into renewed activity; revival or reappearance in active existence.
  • red crescent — an organization functioning as the Red Cross in Muslim countries.
  • reductionism — the theory that every complex phenomenon, especially in biology or psychology, can be explained by analyzing the simplest, most basic physical mechanisms that are in operation during the phenomenon.
  • reductionist — the theory that every complex phenomenon, especially in biology or psychology, can be explained by analyzing the simplest, most basic physical mechanisms that are in operation during the phenomenon.
  • rescheduling — the act of changing the time, date, or schedule of
  • resplendence — a resplendent quality or state; splendor.
  • 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.
  • sand cricket — Jerusalem cricket.
  • sarcoadenoma — adenosarcoma.
  • schneiderman — Rose, 1884–1972, U.S. labor leader, born in Poland.
  • scolopendrid — any myriapod of the order Scolopendrida, including many large, poisonous centipedes.
  • screw around — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
  • scrimshander — a person who makes scrimshaw objects.
  • second birth — spiritual rebirth.
  • second floor — the floor or story above the ground floor.
  • second grade — school year: age 7-8
  • second reich — the German Empire 1871–1919.
  • second world — the world's industrialized nations other than the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.
  • second-homer — a person who owns another house in addition to their main home, often in an area where they are not native and used as a holiday home
  • second-story — of or located on the second story or floor.
  • secunderabad — a city in N Andhra Pradesh, in central India, part of Hyderabad: a former British military cantonment.
  • self-centred — concerned solely or chiefly with one's own interests, welfare, etc.; engrossed in self; selfish; egotistical.
  • semicylinder — half of a cylinder divided lengthwise.
  • shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
  • six-cylinder — having six chambers in a reciprocating internal-combustion engine, pump, or compressor within which the pistons move
  • snake doctor — South Midland and Southern U.S. a dragonfly.
  • snow-covered — Snow-covered places and things are covered over with snow.
  • soft-centred — (of a chocolate or boiled sweet) having a centre consisting of cream, jelly, etc
  • 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
  • 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.
  • square dance — hoedown, barn dance
  • square-dance — to perform or participate in a square dance.
  • starchedness — the condition or quality of being starched
  • stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
  • student card — a card verifying somebody's identity as a university student and entitling them to services, discounts, etc
  • subintroduce — to introduce subtly
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