12-letter words containing d, e, i, c, s
- prediscovery — a previous discovery
- prespecified — to mention or name specifically or definitely; state in detail: He did not specify the amount needed.
- prices index — an official list of the price of goods
- proboscidate — having a proboscis.
- proboscidean — pertaining to or resembling a proboscis.
- promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
- pseudocyesis — false pregnancy.
- quadrisected — Simple past tense and past participle of quadrisect.
- quickstepped — Simple past tense and past participle of quickstep.
- quindecagons — Plural form of quindecagon.
- race suicide — the extinction of a racial or ethnic population that tends to result when, through the unwillingness or forbearance of its members to have children, the birthrate falls below the death rate.
- radiesthetic — of or relating to radiesthesia
- radio source — a cosmic object or phenomenon, as a galaxy, pulsar, quasar, or the remnant of a supernova or of a galactic collision, that emits radio waves.
- raised beach — a wave-cut platform raised above the shoreline by a relative fall in the water level
- re-solicited — to seek for (something) by entreaty, earnest or respectful request, formal application, etc.: He solicited aid from the minister.
- rechristened — to receive into the Christian church by baptism; baptize.
- recidivistic — repeated or habitual relapse, as into crime.
- reclassified — to classify anew.
- rediscoverer — a person who rediscovers
- 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.
- res judicata — a thing adjudicated; a case that has been decided.
- rescheduling — the act of changing the time, date, or schedule of
- 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.
- salicylamide — a compound of ammonia and gualtheria oil
- sanctifiedly — in a sanctified manner
- sand cricket — Jerusalem cricket.
- 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.
- schindylesis — an articulation or fibrous joint in which one bone is received into the cleft or slit of another bone
- schindyletic — relating to the joint in which one bone is received into the cleft or slit of another bone
- schneiderman — Rose, 1884–1972, U.S. labor leader, born in Poland.
- sclerodermic — of or relating to a scleroderm or to sclerodermia; hard-skinned
- scolopendrid — any myriapod of the order Scolopendrida, including many large, poisonous centipedes.
- 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.
- 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.
- secchi depth — the depth at which a Secchi disk is no longer visible from the surface of ocean water.
- secd machine — Stack Environment Control Dump machine
- second birth — spiritual rebirth.
- second reich — the German Empire 1871–1919.
- second sight — the faculty of seeing future events; clairvoyance.
- section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
- 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-excited — noting a generator with magnets that are excited by the current it produces.
- self-induced — induced by oneself or itself.