12-letter words containing n, a, s, c, r, d
- endocarditis — Inflammation of the endocardium.
- endovascular — Within a blood vessel.
- enfranchised — Simple past tense and past participle of enfranchise.
- eradications — Plural form of eradication.
- french sudan — former name of Mali.
- garden cress — a peppergrass, Lepidium sativum, used as a salad vegetable.
- gas cylinder — container for storing gas
- gastric band — A gastric band is a device that is fitted inside someone's stomach to make it smaller in order to help them lose weight.
- grand siècle — the 17th century in French art and literature, esp the classical period of Louis XIV
- handicappers — Plural form of handicapper.
- hard science — any of the natural or physical sciences, as chemistry, biology, physics, or astronomy, in which aspects of the universe are investigated by means of hypotheses and experiments.
- hydrocarbons — any of a class of compounds containing only hydrogen and carbon, as an alkane, methane, CH 4 , an alkene, ethylene, C 2 H 4 , an alkyne, acetylene, C 2 H 2 , or an aromatic compound, benzene, C 6 H 6 .
- hydronautics — (nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation.
- iceland spar — a transparent variety of calcite that is double-refracting and is used as a polarizer.
- icosahedrons — Plural form of icosahedron.
- idiosyncracy — Alternative spelling of idiosyncrasy.
- idiosyncrasy — A mode of behavior or way of thought peculiar to an individual.
- in the cards — a usually rectangular piece of stiff paper, thin pasteboard, or plastic for various uses, as to write information on or printed as a means of identifying the holder: a 3″ × 5″ file card; a membership card.
- incendiaries — Plural form of incendiary.
- incendiarism — the act or practice of an arsonist; malicious burning.
- indian cress — a nasturtium, Tropaeolum majus, of South America, having red-spotted or red-striped, yellow-orange flowers, the young flower buds and fruits being used as seasoning.
- inside track — the inner, or shorter, track of a racecourse.
- iracundulous — easily angered or irritable
- merchandised — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- merchandiser — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- merchandises — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- misandristic — Exhibiting misandry; man-hating.
- morris dance — a rural folk dance of north English origin, performed in costume traditionally by men who originally represented characters of the Robin Hood legend, especially in May Day festivities.
- narcodollars — Usually, narcodollars. money obtained through illegal drug trafficking.
- nitrous acid — an acid, HNO 2 , known only in solution.
- nonbroadcast — not broadcast to a wide audience, supplied on a hidden or private network
- normed space — any vector space on which a norm is defined.
- noticeboards — Plural form of noticeboard.
- on the cards — likely
- parascending — parasailing
- plaid screen — [XEROX PARC] A "special effect" that occurs when certain kinds of memory smashes overwrite the control blocks or image memory of a bit-mapped display. The term "salt and pepper" may refer to a different pattern of similar origin. Though the term as coined at PARC refers to the result of an error, some of the X demos induce plaid-screen effects deliberately as a display hack.
- proboscidean — pertaining to or resembling a proboscis.
- quadrisonics — quadraphony.
- radar screen — a screen on equipment used in radar, a method for detecting the position and velocity of a distant object
- radical sign — the symbol √ or indicating extraction of a root of the quantity that follows it, as √25=5 or .
- re-landscape — a section or expanse of rural scenery, usually extensive, that can be seen from a single viewpoint.
- resyndicated — a group of individuals or organizations combined or making a joint effort to undertake some specific duty or carry out specific transactions or negotiations: The local furniture store is individually owned, but is part of a buying syndicate.
- 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".
- sand cricket — Jerusalem cricket.
- sandrocottus — Greek name of Chandragupta.
- sandwich bar — a place where sandwiches are sold
- sarcoadenoma — adenosarcoma.
- sardonically — characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering: a sardonic grin.
- scarlatinoid — resembling scarlatina or its eruptions.
- schneiderman — Rose, 1884–1972, U.S. labor leader, born in Poland.