12-letter words containing l, a, c, r, e
- rock glacier — a mass of rock resembling a valley glacier that moves or is moved down a slope by its own weight or by the action of frost and interstitial ice.
- rocker panel — body paneling below the passenger compartment of a vehicle.
- rocket plane — aircraft that launches rockets
- rocket salad — rocket2 (def 2).
- rocket-salad — any of various plants belonging to the genus Hesperis, of the mustard family, and related genera. Compare dame's rocket.
- roller chain — a power chain consisting of parallel pairs of flat links joined by pins covered with rollers, and engaging with the teeth of sprockets.
- roman a clef — a novel that represents historical events and characters under the guise of fiction.
- roman candle — a firework consisting of a tube that sends out a shower of sparks and a succession of balls of fire.
- roncesvalles — a village in N Spain, in the Pyrenees: defeat of part of Charlemagne's army and the death of Roland a.d.
- rugby tackle — A rugby tackle is a way of making someone fall over by throwing your arms around their legs or hips.
- run in place — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- saccharinely — of the nature of or resembling that of sugar: a powdery substance with a saccharine taste.
- sacral nerve — any of the nerves arising in five pairs from the spinal cord in the sacrum.
- sacramentals — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
- sacred lotus — Indian lotus.
- sacrilegious — pertaining to or involving sacrilege: sacrilegious practices.
- sacring bell — a small bell rung at the elevation of the Host and chalice during Mass
- salescritter — /sayls'kri"tr/ Pejorative hackerism for a computer salesperson. Hackers tell the following joke: Q. What's the difference between a used-car dealer and a computer salesman? A. The used-car dealer knows he's lying. [Some versions add: ...and probably knows how to drive.] This reflects the widespread hacker belief that salescritters are self-selected for stupidity (after all, if they had brains and the inclination to use them, they'd be in programming). The terms "salesthing" and "salesdroid" are also common. Compare marketroid, suit.
- saranac lake — any of three connected lakes (Upper, Middle, & Lower) in the Adirondacks, NE N.Y.
- sausage curl — a lock of hair formed into a curl resembling a sausage in shape.
- scabbardless — lacking a scabbard or a sheath for a sword or dagger
- scalar field — a region with a number assigned at each point.
- scarlet sage — a tender shrub, Salvia splendens, of Brazil, having ovate leaves and bell-shaped scarlet flowers.
- scatter plot — a graphic representation of bivariate data as a set of points in the plane that have Cartesian coordinates equal to corresponding values of the two variates.
- scatteringly — in a scattering manner
- schiaparelli — Elsa [el-sah] /ˈɛl sɑ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1973, French fashion designer, born in Italy.
- schoolmaster — a man who presides over or teaches in a school.
- sclerenchyma — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
- scopes trial — John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
- scout leader — the leader of a troop of Scouts
- scrap dealer — a person who deals in scrap
- scratch file — A scratch file is a temporary computer file which you use as a work area or as a store while a program is operating.
- scratch line — a line that marks the start of a race.
- scratchplate — a plastic or metal plate attached to the front of a guitar to protect it from pick scratches
- scrobiculate — furrowed or pitted.
- secobarbital — a white, odorless, slightly bitter powder, C 1 2 H 1 8 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative and hypnotic.
- self-created — to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.
- selling race — a claiming race at the end of which the winning horse is offered for sale.
- semicircular — Also called semicircumference [sem-ee-ser-kuhm-fer-uh ns, -fruh ns, sem-ahy-] /ˌsɛm i sərˈkʌm fər əns, -frəns, ˌsɛm aɪ-/ (Show IPA). half of a circle; the arc from one end of a diameter to the other.
- semitropical — subtropical.
- seraphically — of, like, or befitting a seraph.
- serial comma — a comma used after the next-to-last item in a series of three or more items when the next-to-last and last items are separated by a conjunction. In the series A, B, C, or D, the comma after C is the series comma.
- service flat — an apartment with complete hotel services.
- shared logic — the sharing of a central processing unit and associated software among several terminals
- shellcracker — redear sunfish.
- shuttlecraft — space shuttle.
- single cream — dairy product: thin or light cream
- single track — a single pair of lines so that trains can travel in only one direction at a time
- single-track — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
- sir lawrence — Sir Lawrence Alma-, Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence.