12-letter words containing l, o, s, c
- 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.
- roncesvalles — a village in N Spain, in the Pyrenees: defeat of part of Charlemagne's army and the death of Roland a.d.
- rose-colored — of rose color; rosy.
- rotflmaoastc — (chat) Rolling on the floor laughing my ass (or arse) off and scaring the cat. The superlative form of ROTFL.
- rust-colored — of the color rust.
- saccharoidal — having a crystalline or granular texture: said esp. of some sandstones and marbles
- sacred lotus — Indian lotus.
- sacrilegious — pertaining to or involving sacrilege: sacrilegious practices.
- sacroiliitis — the inflammation of the sacroiliac joint
- saddle block — a type of spinal anaesthesia producing sensory loss in the buttocks, inner sides of the thighs, and perineum
- sal ammoniac — ammonium chloride.
- sales office — the office or room of the department of a company responsible for selling its goods or services
- salification — to form into a salt, as by chemical combination.
- salmon brick — a soft, imperfectly fired brick having a reddish-orange color.
- salsolaceous — relating to the genus Salsola
- sanctionable — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- sanguicolous — living in the blood, as a parasite.
- sans-culotte — (in the French Revolution) a revolutionary of the poorer class: originally a term of contempt applied by the aristocrats but later adopted as a popular name by the revolutionaries.
- sansculottic — relating to sansculottes
- santalaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Santalaceae, a family of semiparasitic plants of Australia and Malaysia including sandalwood and quandong
- sardonically — characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering: a sardonic grin.
- saronic gulf — an inlet of the Aegean, on the SE coast of Greece, between Attica and the Peloponnesus. 50 miles (80 km) long; 30 miles (48 km) wide.
- scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
- scalp lotion — A scalp lotion is a liquid medication for the treatment of scalp conditions and disorders.
- scandalously — disgraceful; shameful or shocking; improper: scandalous behavior in public.
- scapegallows — a criminal who escapes death by hanging or the gallows
- scapulomancy — divination of the future by observation of the cracking of a mammal's scapula that has been heated by a fire or hot instrument.
- scarlatinoid — resembling scarlatina or its eruptions.
- scatological — the study of or preoccupation with excrement or obscenity.
- 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.
- scent bottle — a bottle of perfume
- schistosomal — relating to or characteristic of a schistosome or member of the genus Schistosoma
- school board — a local board or committee in charge of public education.
- school hours — the period of the day when school is open
- school lunch — School lunches are midday meals provided for children at a school.
- school night — any night of the week that precedes a day of school
- school prawn — a common olive-green prawn, Metapenaeus macleayi
- school shark — an Australian shark resembling the tope, Notogaleus australis
- schoolboyish — like or characteristic of a schoolboy
- schoolfellow — a schoolmate.
- schoolmaster — a man who presides over or teaches in a school.
- scintillator — a phosphor capable of producing scintillations.
- scissor bill — a type of skimmer bird
- sclerodermic — of or relating to a scleroderm or to sclerodermia; hard-skinned
- sclerophylly — the normal development of much sclerenchyma in the leaves of certain plants, as some desert plants, resulting in thickened, hardened foliage that resists loss of moisture.
- scolopaceous — (of birds or other animals) like a snipe, a shore bird with a straight beak
- scolopendrid — any myriapod of the order Scolopendrida, including many large, poisonous centipedes.
- 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.
- scopophiliac — the obtaining of sexual pleasure by looking at nude bodies, erotic photographs, etc.