12-letter words containing d, e, s, c, r
- scared stiff — terrified
- scheherazade — (in The Arabian Nights' Entertainments) the wife of the sultan of India, who relates such interesting tales nightly that the sultan spares her life.
- 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.
- scout leader — the leader of a troop of Scouts
- scrap dealer — a person who deals in scrap
- scraperboard — scratchboard.
- 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.
- screw thread — Also called worm. the helical ridge of a screw.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- self-colored — of one color.
- self-created — to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.
- semicylinder — half of a cylinder divided lengthwise.
- 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
- shelter deck — a weather deck covering a space not considered fully watertight.
- shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
- side circuit — a circuit derived from two suitably arranged pairs of wires, each pair being a circuit (side circuit) and also acting as one half of an additional derived circuit, the entire system providing the capabilities of three circuits while requiring wires for only two.
- siderochrome — any of various chemical compounds functioning in the transport of iron in bacteria.
- siderophilic — having characteristics of siderophile
- six-cylinder — having six chambers in a reciprocating internal-combustion engine, pump, or compressor within which the pistons move
- sliced bread — bread: sold pre-sliced
- snake doctor — South Midland and Southern U.S. a dragonfly.
- snow-covered — Snow-covered places and things are covered over with snow.
- 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.
- soft-centred — (of a chocolate or boiled sweet) having a centre consisting of cream, jelly, etc
- soldier crab — a small blue Australian estuarine crab of the Mictyris genus usually found in large numbers
- solid rocket — any of various rockets using solid fuel
- 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.
- speed camera — device that detects speeding traffic
- spermaticide — spermicide.
- spermatocide — spermicide.
- square dance — hoedown, barn dance
- square-dance — to perform or participate in a square dance.