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12-letter words containing d, o, i, t

  • riding boots — long boots worn for horse-riding
  • 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.
  • road traffic — traffic on the road
  • romanticized — interpreted according to romantic precepts
  • saddle joint — (on a sill, coping, or the like) a vertical joint raised above the level of the washes on each side.
  • saddle point — a point at which a function of two variables has partial derivatives equal to zero but at which the function has neither a maximum nor a minimum value.
  • safe-deposit — providing safekeeping for valuables: a safe-deposit vault.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • second sight — the faculty of seeing future events; clairvoyance.
  • section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
  • semi-dormant — lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid: The lecturer's sudden shout woke the dormant audience.
  • semideponent — (of a Latin verb) active in meaning but passive in form in the perfect tense
  • semidominant — producing an intermediate, heterozygous phenotype
  • shittim wood — the wood, probably acacia, of which the ark of the covenant and various parts of the tabernacle were made. Ex. 25, 26.
  • 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.
  • shut-out bid — a pre-emptive bid
  • 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.
  • sodium light — the light produced by a sodium lamp
  • soft landing — space vehicle
  • solid rocket — any of various rockets using solid fuel
  • solidaristic — relating to solidarism
  • solitudinous — the state of being or living alone; seclusion: to enjoy one's solitude.
  • 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
  • sorting yard — sorting tracks.
  • south euclid — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
  • south island — the largest island of New Zealand. 58,093 sq. mi. (150,460 sq. km).
  • speedboating — the act, practice, or sport of traveling in a speedboat.
  • spermatocide — spermicide.
  • spermatozoid — a motile male gamete produced in an antheridium.
  • spinsterhood — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
  • spit-roasted — cooked on a spit
  • split second — a fraction of a second.
  • sporting dog — one of any of several breeds of usually large dogs especially suited by size and training for hunting by pointing, flushing, and retrieving game and including the pointers, setters, retrievers, and spaniels.
  • sports drink — a drink containing sugar and salts, etc designed to help replace fluid and energy lost through the physical exertion of sport
  • spot welding — fusing metal
  • spotted dick — a steamed or boiled suet pudding containing dried fruit
  • spotted tail — (Sinte-galeshka) 1833?–81, Brulé Sioux leader.
  • spotted wilt — a viral disease of plants, characterized by wilting and by brown, sunken spots and streaks on the stems and leaves.
  • stand in for — to substitute for
  • stand-offish — If you say that someone is stand-offish, you mean that they behave in a formal and rather unfriendly way.
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