12-letter words containing d, i, t, c
- second birth — spiritual rebirth.
- second sight — the faculty of seeing future events; clairvoyance.
- section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
- seed capital — small sum invested in new business
- self-excited — noting a generator with magnets that are excited by the current it produces.
- semiattached — partially attached; semidetached.
- semidetached — partly detached.
- shield match — a cricket match for the Sheffield Shield
- 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.
- sitting duck — a helpless or easy target or victim: a sitting duck for shady financial schemes.
- sixty-second — next after the sixty-first; being the ordinal number for 62.
- 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.
- soda biscuit — a biscuit having soda and sour milk or buttermilk as leavening agents.
- solid rocket — any of various rockets using solid fuel
- solidaristic — relating to solidarism
- 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
- south euclid — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- spermaticide — spermicide.
- spermatocide — spermicide.
- split second — a fraction of a second.
- spotted dick — a steamed or boiled suet pudding containing dried fruit
- standing cup — a tall decorative cup of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, having a raised cover.
- stannic acid — any of the series of acids usually occurring as amorphous powders and varying in composition from H 2 SnO 3 (alpha-stannic acid) to H 4 SnO 4 .
- 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.
- stick around — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- sticky blood — a condition of the blood, particularly associated with Hughes syndrome, in which antibodies tend to adhere to platelets and glue them together, leading to an increased likelihood of clotting
- stiff-necked — having a stiff neck; having torticollis.
- 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.
- studio couch — an upholstered couch, usually without a back, convertible into a double bed by sliding a bed frame out from beneath it and covering the frame with the mattress that forms the upper thickness of the upholstery.
- subdiaconate — the office or dignity of a subdeacon.
- subduplicate — of the square root of ratios
- subintroduce — to introduce subtly
- subjectified — to make subjective.
- suction disc — a device for attaching to a non-porous surface by means of suction
- suicide note — letter left by person ending own life
- suicide pact — an agreement between two or more people to commit suicide together.
- syndactylism — having certain digits joined together.
- 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).
- tack welding — to join (pieces of metal) with a number of small welds spaced some distance apart.
- taxi dancing — a system, as in a dance hall or hotel, whereby a person pays for a partner (taxi dancer) for a dance, payment being required for each individual dance during an evening
- teacher bird — the ovenbird, Seiurus aurocapillus, a songbird that builds a nest shaped like a dome.
- teaching aid — material used by a teacher to supplement classroom instruction or to stimulate the interest of students.
- technobandit — a person who steals technological secrets, as from the government or a place of employment, and sells them to agents of foreign governments or to competing firms.
- telemedicine — the diagnosis and treatment of patients in remote areas using medical information, as x-rays or television pictures, transmitted over long distances, especially by satellite.
- terebic acid — an acid, C 7 H 10 O 4 , formed by the oxidation of certain terpenes and historically important in the discovery of the structures of many terpenes.
- testiculated — like a testicle, esp in shape
- the distance — the most distant or a faraway part of the visible scene or landscape