12-letter words containing i, s, n, a, d
- sand casting — Sand casting is a process in which a molten metal is poured into a mold made from sand.
- sand cricket — Jerusalem cricket.
- sand springs — a town in NE Oklahoma.
- sandblasting — the act or process of using a sandblast to clean, grind, or decorate a surface
- sandpainting — a type of painting done by American Indians, esp in the healing ceremonies of the Navaho, using fine coloured sand on a neutral ground
- sandpapering — the act or process of polishing or grinding a surface with or as if with sandpaper
- sandwich bar — a place where sandwiches are sold
- sandwich man — a person with advertising boards hung from the shoulders.
- sandy blight — trachoma.
- sapindaceous — belonging to the Sapindaceae, the soapberry family of plants.
- sardonically — characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering: a sardonic grin.
- savings bond — a U.S. government bond with principal amounts up to $10,000.
- scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
- scandinavian — of or relating to Scandinavia, its inhabitants, or their languages.
- 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.
- schneiderman — Rose, 1884–1972, U.S. labor leader, born in Poland.
- 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.
- scrimshander — a person who makes scrimshaw objects.
- scuba diving — deep-sea swimming
- sea bindweed — a species of bindweed, Calystegia soldanella, which grows on beaches in E North America, Europe, and Asia
- seam binding — a narrow strip of fabric attached to the unfinished edge of a seam or hem to keep it from raveling.
- secd machine — Stack Environment Control Dump machine
- section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
- sedimentable — capable of forming sediment
- selenic acid — a crystalline, water-soluble, strong, corrosive, dibasic acid, H 2 SeO 4 , resembling sulfuric acid.
- self-damning — causing incrimination: damning evidence.
- self-dealing — financial transaction conducted on a personal, nonbusinesslike basis, as lending or borrowing of corporate money by a director.
- self-disdain — to look upon or treat with contempt; despise; scorn.
- self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
- self-loading — noting or pertaining to an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
- self-reading — the action or practice of a person who reads.
- semi-dormant — lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid: The lecturer's sudden shout woke the dormant audience.
- semi-invalid — a person who is partially disabled or somewhat infirm
- semi-nomadic — of, relating to, or characteristic of nomads.
- semidarkness — partial darkness.
- semidominant — producing an intermediate, heterozygous phenotype
- send packing — to dismiss peremptorily
- sendai virus — a paramyxovirus that tends to cause cell fusion: in inactive form, used in biological research to produce cells with multiple nuclei of different genetic constitutions.
- serial bonds — Serial bonds are bonds that are issued at the same time but have staggered maturity dates.
- shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
- sherardizing — to coat (steel) with a thin cladding of zinc by heating in a mixture of sand and powdered zinc.
- sialadenitis — inflammation of one or more of the salivary glands.
- side against — one of the surfaces forming the outside of or bounding a thing, or one of the lines bounding a geometric figure.
- signal board — a board for displaying electrically transmitted signals and indicating their source.
- sikandarabad — Secunderabad.
- sindonophany — the periodic exhibiting to the public of the shroud that the body of Christ is thought to have been wrapped in
- single modal — modal (def 3).
- sinusoidally — Mathematics. of or relating to a sinusoid.