12-letter words containing d, i, s, c, e, r
- 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.
- sand cricket — Jerusalem cricket.
- scalar field — a region with a number assigned at each point.
- scared stiff — terrified
- 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.
- second birth — spiritual rebirth.
- second reich — the German Empire 1871–1919.
- 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
- 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
- social order — structure or hierarchy of society
- 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
- spermaticide — spermicide.
- spermatocide — spermicide.
- stearic acid — a colorless, waxlike, sparingly water-soluble, odorless solid, C 1 8 H 3 6 O 2 , the most common fatty acid, occurring as the glyceride in tallow and other animal fats and in some animal oils: used chiefly in the manufacture of soaps, stearates, candles, cosmetics, and in medicine in suppositories and pill coatings.
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- store credit — A store credit is a document offered by a store to a customer who returns an item not eligible for a refund. It can be used to buy other goods at the store.
- strait-laced — excessively strict in conduct or morality; puritanical; prudish: strait-laced censors.
- street child — Street children are homeless children who live outdoors in a city and live by begging or stealing.
- sub-mediocre — of only ordinary or moderate quality; neither good nor bad; barely adequate: The car gets only mediocre mileage, but it's fun to drive. Synonyms: undistinguished, commonplace, pedestrian, everyday; run-of-the-mill. Antonyms: extraordinary, superior, uncommon, incomparable.
- suberic acid — a crystalline dibasic acid, C 8 H 1 4 O 4 , obtained especially from suberin, castor oil, and cork: used chiefly in the preparation of plastics and plasticizers.
- subintroduce — to introduce subtly
- third sector — the segment of a nation's economy that is made up of neither public nor business concerns, as nonprofit health or educational institutions.
- thunderstick — bull-roarer.
- tradescantia — any plant of the American genus Tradescantia, widely cultivated for their striped variegated leaves: family Commelinaceae
- transcending — to rise above or go beyond; overpass; exceed: to transcend the limits of thought; kindness transcends courtesy.
- transdialect — to translate (speech, writing, etc.) into a different dialect.
- tricuspidate — having three cusps or flaps.
- tropicalised — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- unbesmirched — to soil; tarnish; discolor.
- unchristened — not christened
- unconsidered — thought about or decided upon with care: a considered opinion.
- under-script — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
- underscoring — the practice of drawing or scoring a line or mark under
- underspecify — to mention or name specifically or definitely; state in detail: He did not specify the amount needed.