12-letter words containing n, a, m, c
- re-enactment — the act of enacting.
- readmittance — the act or process of admitting someone or something again
- reattachment — connecting or fastening again
- recompensate — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
- rejectamenta — things that have been thrown away as worthless
- remembrancer — a person who reminds another of something.
- remonstrance — an act or instance of remonstrating.
- return match — sport: second game between same teams
- ring machine — a Linotype used primarily for making corrections.
- road company — a theatrical group that tours cities and towns, usually performing a single play that is or has been a success in New York City.
- rock jasmine — any of several alpine plants belonging to the genus Androsace, of the primrose family, having tufted leaves often in basal rosettes, and umbels of pink, red, purple, or white flowers.
- rockumentary — a documentary about rock music.
- 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.
- roman collar — clerical collar.
- romantically — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
- romanticized — interpreted according to romantic precepts
- rose campion — a plant, Lychnis coronaria, of the pink family, having reddish purple flowers, and leaves covered with whitish down.
- run commands — (operating system) The expansion of the file name suffix, "rc", common to many Unix configuration files, e.g. .newsrc, .cshrc, .twmrc, elmrc, etc. Always abbreviated to /R C/ when spoken. Note, "rc" is not a typical filename extension as it doesn't start with a dot. The suffix "rc" derives from a script-creation utility in CTSS called "runcom".
- sacramentals — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
- sacramentary — a sacramentarian
- sal ammoniac — ammonium chloride.
- salmon brick — a soft, imperfectly fired brick having a reddish-orange color.
- san clemente — a town in S California.
- sandwich man — a person with advertising boards hung from the shoulders.
- santa monica — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles, on Santa Monica Bay: resort.
- sarcoadenoma — adenosarcoma.
- satyromaniac — a lascivious man; lecher.
- scampishness — the quality of being scampish
- scapulimancy — divination of the future by observation of the cracking of a mammal's scapula that has been heated by a fire or hot instrument.
- 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.
- scene master — (on a switchboard) a master switch that controls several lighting circuits.
- 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.
- schmalkalden — a town in central Germany: a league to defend Protestantism formed here 1531.
- schneiderman — Rose, 1884–1972, U.S. labor leader, born in Poland.
- schuman plan — the plan for establishing the European Coal and Steel Community, proposed by Robert Schuman, French political leader, in 1950.
- scitamineous — of or relating to the Scitimanae order of plants, which includes the ginger and banana plants
- sclerenchyma — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
- scott domain — An algebraic, boundedly complete, complete partial order. Often simply called a domain.
- scramblingly — in a scrambling manner
- scrimshander — a person who makes scrimshaw objects.
- scrimshanker — a shirker
- secd machine — Stack Environment Control Dump machine
- sectarianism — sectarian spirit or tendencies; excessive devotion to a particular sect, especially in religion.
- section mark — section (def 16).
- sectionalism — excessive regard for sectional or local interests; regional or local spirit, prejudice, etc.
- seismonastic — of or relating to seismonasty
- self-command — self-control.
- semantic web — an extension of the World Wide Web in which data is structured and XML-tagged on the basis of its meaning or content, so that computers can process and integrate the information without human intervention: the semantic Web acting as a global database or huge brain.
- semantically — of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.