12-letter words containing d, i, r, t
- reproductive — serving to reproduce.
- res judicata — a thing adjudicated; a case that has been decided.
- residentiary — residing; resident.
- residentship — a person who resides in a place.
- respondentia — a loan upon a ship's cargo, which is repaid with interest if the ship reaches its destination, and if the ship does not, the loan is not repaid
- 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.
- retail trade — shop selling
- retrodiction — the act or result of retrodicting
- retrodictive — of or relating to retrodicting or retrodiction
- revalidation — to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.
- revictualled — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
- rhytidectomy — face-lift.
- ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
- riding boots — long boots worn for horse-riding
- riding habit — habit1 (def 11).
- right-angled — A right-angled triangle has one angle that is a right angle.
- right-handed — having the right hand or arm more serviceable than the left; using the right hand by preference: a right-handed painter.
- right-hander — a person who is right-handed, especially a baseball pitcher who throws with the right hand.
- right-minded — having correct, honest, or good opinions or principles.
- right-to-die — asserting or advocating the right to refuse extraordinary medical measures to prolong one's life when one is terminally ill or irreversibly comatose: right-to-die laws.
- rigid motion — any transformation, as a translation or rotation, of a set such that the distance between points is preserved.
- rimmed steel — a low-carbon steel containing enough iron oxide so that there is continuous generation of carbon monoxide during solidification.
- road traffic — traffic on the road
- romanticized — interpreted according to romantic precepts
- rutlandshire — a former county, now part of Leicestershire, in central England.
- sand cricket — Jerusalem cricket.
- scared stiff — terrified
- scarlatinoid — resembling scarlatina or its eruptions.
- scratch disk — 1. (storage) See scratch. 2. (operating system) Unallocated space on Windows 95's primary hard disk partition, used for virtual memory. Shortage of space on this partition can result in the error "scratch disk full".
- scratchbuild — to build a scale model of something from scratch, that is, from raw materials like wood, clay or paper
- scratchpad i — (language) A general-purpose language originally for interactive symbolic mathematics by Richard Jenks, Barry Trager, Stephen M. Watt and Robert S. Sutor of IBM Research, ca 1971. It features abstract parametrised data types, multiple inheritance and polymorphism. There were implementations for VM/CMS and AIX.
- scsi adaptor — (hardware) (Or "host adaptor") A device that communicates between a computer and its SCSI peripherals. The SCSI adaptor is usually assigned SCSI ID 7. It is often a separate card that is connected to the computer's bus (e.g. PCI, ISA, PCMCIA) though increasinly, SCSI adaptors are built in to the motherboard. Apart from being cheaper, busses like PCI are too slow to keep up with the newer SCSI standards like Ultra SCSI and Ultra-Wide SCSI. There are several varieties of SCSI (and their connectors) and an adaptor will not support them all. The performance of SCSI devices is limited by the speed of the SCSI adaptor and its connection to the computer. An adaptor that plugs into a parallel port is unlikely to be as fast as one incorporated into a motherboard. Fast adaptors use DMA or bus mastering. Some SCSI adaptors include a BIOS to allow PCs to boot from a SCSI hard disk, if their own BIOS supports it. Note that it is not a "SCSI controller" - it does not control the devices, and "SCSI interface" is redundant - the "I" of "SCSI" stands for "interface".
- second birth — spiritual rebirth.
- semi-dormant — lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid: The lecturer's sudden shout woke the dormant audience.
- semidiameter — half of a diameter; radius.
- serendipiter — an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.
- set designer — theatre, cinema: creator of scenery
- sharp-witted — having or showing mental acuity; intellectually discerning; acute.
- shirt-tailed — (of a garment) having a shirt-tail
- shirtsleeved — not wearing a jacket or coat
- short radius — the perpendicular distance from the centre of a regular polygon to a side
- short-haired — having short hair
- short-winded — short of breath; liable to difficulty in breathing.
- shortsighted — unable to see far; nearsighted; myopic.
- 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.
- sidesplitter — something that is uproariously funny, as a joke or a situation.
- sixth-grader — a pupil in their sixth US school year after kindergarten, who is usually around 11 or 12 years old
- skutterudite — a mineral, chiefly cobalt and nickel arsenide, (Co,Ni)As 3 , with some iron, occurring in the form of gray cubic crystals, usually in masses: a source of cobalt and nickel.
- slide guitar — bottleneck (def 3).
- snail darter — a tan, striped, snail-eating perch, Percina tanasi, 3 inches (7.5 cm) long, occurring only in the Tennessee River: a threatened species.