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12-letter words containing d, i, s, o, c, a

  • optical disk — Also, optical disc. Also called laser disk. a grooveless disk on which digital data, as text, music, or pictures, is stored as tiny pits in the surface and is read or replayed by a laser beam scanning the surface.
  • orchidaceous — belonging to the plant family Orchidaceae.
  • orthopaedics — (used with a singular verb) the medical specialty concerned with correction of deformities or functional impairments of the skeletal system, especially the extremities and the spine, and associated structures, as muscles and ligaments.
  • outdistanced — Simple past tense and past participle of outdistance.
  • outdistances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outdistance.
  • paedodontics — the branch of dentistry that focuses on the care of children's teeth
  • paludicolous — inhabiting marshland
  • pas d'action — a dramatic, pantomimic dance sequence serving to advance the plot.
  • peccadilloes — a very minor or slight sin or offense; a trifling fault.
  • phosphatidic — of or relating to a phosphatide
  • postaccident — occurring after an accident
  • postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
  • proboscidate — having a proboscis.
  • proboscidean — pertaining to or resembling a proboscis.
  • promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
  • prosodically — in a prosodic manner
  • quadrisonics — quadraphony.
  • quindecagons — Plural form of quindecagon.
  • radicicolous — living on the roots of plants
  • radicivorous — feeding on the roots of plants
  • 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.
  • saccharoidal — having a crystalline or granular texture: said esp. of some sandstones and marbles
  • sapindaceous — belonging to the Sapindaceae, the soapberry family of plants.
  • 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.
  • scott domain — An algebraic, boundedly complete, complete partial order. Often simply called a domain.
  • scouring pad — a small pad, as of steel wool or plastic mesh, used for scouring pots, pans, etc.
  • scrieveboard — the drawing board of a shipbuilder
  • scrive board — a floorlike construction on which the lines of a vessel can be drawn or scribed at full size.
  • 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".
  • section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
  • semi-nomadic — of, relating to, or characteristic of nomads.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • social media — websites and other online means of communication that are used by large groups of people to share information and to develop social and professional contacts: Many businesses are utilizing social media to generate sales.
  • social order — structure or hierarchy of society
  • soda biscuit — a biscuit having soda and sour milk or buttermilk as leavening agents.
  • soldier crab — a small blue Australian estuarine crab of the Mictyris genus usually found in large numbers
  • solidaristic — relating to solidarism
  • spermatocide — spermicide.
  • sporadically — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
  • stick around — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
  • subarachnoid — of, relating to, or situated below the arachnoid membrane.
  • subdiaconate — the office or dignity of a subdeacon.
  • syndiotactic — (of a polymer molecule) having a regular alternation of opposite configurations at successive regularly spaced positions along the chain. See also configuration (def 4).
  • transduction — the transfer of genetic material from one cell to another by means of a virus.
  • tropicalised — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
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