12-letter words containing d, i, s, n, c, l
- iracundulous — easily angered or irritable
- iridescently — In an iridescent manner.
- landscapists — Plural form of landscapist.
- lapidescence — a lapidescent quality or condition
- leading case — a case that is regarded as having settled a particular point of law; a case that is used as guidance for legal decisions
- linseed cake — a cake or a mass made by expressing the oil from linseed, used chiefly as feed for cattle.
- locus standi — the right of a party to appear and be heard before a court
- maledictions — Plural form of malediction.
- masculinized — Simple past tense and past participle of masculinize.
- mendaciously — In a lying or deceitful manner.
- middlescence — the middle-age period of life, especially when considered a difficult time of self-doubt and readjustment.
- milliseconds — Plural form of millisecond.
- nickelodeons — Plural form of nickelodeon.
- noncustodial — Not having custody of one’s children after a divorce.
- nondualistic — of, relating to, or of the nature of dualism.
- nucleocapsid — the nucleic acid core and surrounding capsid of a virus; the basic viral structure.
- nucleosidase — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of nucleosides.
- nucleotidase — a biochemical catalyst that facilitates the process of hydrolyzing or splitting a nucleotide and turning it into a phosphate and a nucleoside
- old slavonic — Old Church Slavonic.
- pascal-linda — Ian Flockhart, U Edinburgh, 1991. Under development.
- 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.
- radical sign — the symbol √ or indicating extraction of a root of the quantity that follows it, as √25=5 or .
- rescheduling — the act of changing the time, date, or schedule of
- sanctifiedly — in a sanctified manner
- sardonically — characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering: a sardonic grin.
- scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
- scarlatinoid — resembling scarlatina or its eruptions.
- 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
- scolopendrid — any myriapod of the order Scolopendrida, including many large, poisonous centipedes.
- selenic acid — a crystalline, water-soluble, strong, corrosive, dibasic acid, H 2 SeO 4 , resembling sulfuric acid.
- self-induced — induced by oneself or itself.
- semicylinder — half of a cylinder divided lengthwise.
- sexdecillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 51 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 96 zeros.
- six-cylinder — having six chambers in a reciprocating internal-combustion engine, pump, or compressor within which the pistons move
- skelic index — the ratio of the length of the leg to the length of the torso of a person, multiplied by 100.
- slam dancing — the act of hurling oneself repeatedly into or through a crowd at a rock-music concert
- slickensided — (of rock) polished by friction
- slide-action — (of a rifle or shotgun) having a lever that when slid back and forth ejects the empty case and cocks and reloads the piece.
- split second — a fraction of a second.
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- succeedingly — being that which follows; subsequent; ensuing: laws to benefit succeeding generations.
- syndactylism — having certain digits joined together.
- transdialect — to translate (speech, writing, etc.) into a different dialect.
- translucidus — (of a cloud) sufficiently transparent as not to obscure the sun, moon, or higher clouds.
- unclassified — not assigned to a class or category; not arranged according to characteristics: Reported instances fall into two main types, with a few unclassified anomalies.
- undiscipline — the trait or characteristic of not having discipline
- unidealistic — of or relating to idealism or idealists.
- unsocialized — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.