11-letter words containing d, u, c
- rudderstock — the vertical member at the forward edge of a rudder, hinged at the sternpost and attached to the helm or steering gear.
- ruridecanal — relating to a rural dean
- rush candle — a candle made from a dried, partly peeled rush that has been dipped in grease.
- saint-cloud — a city in central Minnesota, on the Mississippi.
- sand-struck — (of bricks) made with a mold lined with sand to permit freeing.
- sandculture — the hydroponic cultivation of plants in sand.
- saucer dome — a dome having the form of a segment of a sphere, with the center well below the springing line; a shallow dome, as in Roman or Byzantine architecture.
- scarf cloud — pileus (def 3).
- school fund — the money provided by a government or raised by parents and teachers to finance the running of a school
- schrödinbug — (jargon, programming) /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
- scoundrelly — having the character of a scoundrel; unscrupulous; villainous.
- screen dump — the act or process of printing or saving the graphical or textual data displayed on a computer screen.
- scrub round — to waive; avoid or ignore
- scrutinised — to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
- scrutinized — to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
- scuba diver — sb who dives underwater
- sculduddery — obscene behavior; lewdness.
- sculduggery — skulduggery.
- scutellated — shaped like a platter; covered with scutella
- second unit — an additional crew on a film production, usually used at a second location for filming crowd scenes, exteriors, and other shots that do not require the principal actors.
- secularized — to make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism.
- seductively — tending to seduce; enticing; beguiling; captivating: a seductive smile.
- self-caused — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- semifluidic — of the nature of a semifluid; partially fluidic
- senectitude — the last stage of life; old age.
- sipunculoid — a member of the group Sipunculoidea
- social fund — (in Britain) a social security fund from which loans or payments may be made to people in cases of extreme need
- solicitudes — the state of being solicitous; anxiety or concern.
- sound block — a small block of wood for rapping with a gavel.
- sound check — an on-the-spot rehearsal by a band before a gig to enable the sound engineer to set up the mixer
- sound truck — a truck carrying a loudspeaker from which speeches, music, etc., are broadcast, as for advertising, campaigning, or the like.
- source code — program instructions that must be translated by a compiler, interpreter, or assembler into object code before execution.
- spondulicks — money; cash.
- static dump — a transfer of the contents of computer memory made at a time when the process is guaranteed to be inactive, as at the end of a routine.
- stock guard — a barrier for keeping cattle and other animals off the tracks or right of way.
- storm cloud — raincloud before storm
- sub-product — a thing produced by labor: products of farm and factory; the product of his thought.
- subadjacent — lying near, close, or contiguous; adjoining; neighboring: a motel adjacent to the highway.
- subcardinal — (of veins) next to the cardinal veins
- subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
- subchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
- subcultured — Bacteriology. to cultivate (a bacterial strain) again on a new medium.
- subdeaconry — the position or office of a subdeacon
- subdecision — a decision secondary to a main decision
- subdiaconal — of or relating to a subdeacon.
- subdirector — an assistant or secondary director
- subdistrict — a division of a district.
- subindicate — to indirectly indicate or hint
- subjudicial — pertaining to judgment in courts of justice or to the administration of justice: judicial proceedings; the judicial system.
- subordinacy — a subordinate person or thing.