12-letter words containing o, c, y
- redwood city — a city in W California.
- reg-symbolic — An early system on the IBM 704.
- release copy — an article, notice, announcement, or the like, issued in advance for publication or broadcast, bearing a release date.
- renunciatory — an act or instance of relinquishing, abandoning, repudiating, or sacrificing something, as a right, title, person, or ambition: the king's renunciation of the throne.
- reply coupon — a coupon sent with an international letter which can be exchanged for stamps sufficient to send a letter back in reply
- reticulocyte — a very young red blood cell, sampled as a measure of red blood cell formation; reticulated erythrocyte.
- rhetorically — used for, belonging to, or concerned with mere style or effect.
- rhynchophore — a member of the Rhynchophora, a former name for the superfamily of beetles (Curculionoidea) that comprises the weevils and bark beetles
- rhyncophoran — any of various beetles, including the weevils, having the head extended to form a snout
- rhytidectomy — face-lift.
- ridiculously — causing or worthy of ridicule or derision; absurd; preposterous; laughable: a ridiculous plan.
- 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 and rye — a bottled drink made with rye whiskey, rock candy, and fruit.
- rock crystal — transparent quartz, especially when colorless.
- rock wallaby — any wallaby of the genus Petrogale, having a banded or striped coat, slender body, and long legs and feet, inhabiting caves and rocky areas in Australia.
- rockumentary — a documentary about rock music.
- romantically — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
- royal colony — a colony ruled or administered by officials appointed by and responsible to the reigning sovereign of the parent state.
- royal octavo — a book size, 61⁄4 by 10 inches
- safety touch — a two-point play
- sardonically — characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering: a sardonic grin.
- satisfactory — giving or affording satisfaction; fulfilling all demands or requirements: a satisfactory solution.
- satyromaniac — a lascivious man; lecher.
- scandalously — disgraceful; shameful or shocking; improper: scandalous behavior in public.
- 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.
- schizomycete — any of numerous microorganisms of the subkingdom (or phylum) Schizophyta, kingdom Monera, comprising the bacteria.
- schizophytic — of or relating to a schizophyte
- schizothymia — the condition of being schizoid or introverted. It encompasses elements of schizophrenia but does not involve the same depth of psychological disturbance
- schoolboyish — like or characteristic of a schoolboy
- 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.
- scorpion fly — any of several harmless insects of the order Mecoptera, the male of certain species having a reproductive structure that resembles the sting of a scorpion.
- scrupulosity — having scruples, or moral or ethical standards; having or showing a strict regard for what one considers right; principled: scrupulous about defending human rights.
- scrupulously — having scruples, or moral or ethical standards; having or showing a strict regard for what one considers right; principled: scrupulous about defending human rights.
- scrutinously — in a scrutinous manner
- second-story — of or located on the second story or floor.
- self-mockery — gentle humour at one's own expense
- seymour cray — (person) The founder of Cray Research and designer of several of their supercomputers. Cray has been a charismatic yet somewhat reclusive figure. He began Cray Research in Minnesota in 1972. In 1988, Cray moved his Cray-3 project to Colorado Springs. The next year, Cray Research spun it off to create Cray Computer. In 1989, Cray left Cray Research and started Cray Computer Corporation in Colorado Springs. His quest to build a faster computer using new-generation materials failed in 1995, and his bankruptcy cost half a billion dollars and more than 400 jobs. The company was unable to raise $20 million needed to finish the Cray-4 and filed for bankruptcy in March 1995. In the summer of 1996, Cray started a Colorado Springs-based company called SRC Computers, Inc. "We think we'll build computers, but who knows what kind or how," Cray said at the time. "We'll talk it over and see if we can come up with a plan." On 1996-09-22, aged 70, Cray broke his neck in a car accident. Surgery for massive head injuries and swelling of the brain leaving him in a critical and unstable condition.
- showy orchis — a wild orchid, Orchis spectabilis, of eastern North America, having a spike of showy flowers, each with purple, pink, or white sepals and petals united into a galea and a white lip.
- silk factory — plant where silk fabric is produced
- silky cornel — a cornel, Cornus amomum, of the eastern U.S., having leaves covered with short, silky hairs on the underside and bearing blue berries.
- sixty-second — next after the sixty-first; being the ordinal number for 62.
- snotty-faced — having visible nasal mucus on the face
- snow crystal — a crystal of ice sufficiently heavy to fall from the atmosphere.
- sociobiology — the study of social behavior in animals with emphasis on the role of behavior in survival and reproduction, engaging branches of ethology, population genetics, and ecology.
- socratically — of or relating to Socrates or his philosophy, followers, etc., or to the Socratic method.
- sole custody — custody, as of a child whose parents are separated, in which one person has sole responsibility.
- solicitously — anxious or concerned (usually followed by about, for, etc., or a clause): solicitous about a person's health.
- sonnet cycle — a group of sonnets composed by one poet and having a unifying theme or subject.
- sooty blotch — a disease, especially of apples and pears, characterized by sootlike spots or blotches on the fruit, caused by a fungus, Gloeodes pomigena.
- sothic cycle — (in the ancient Egyptian calendar) a period of 1460 Sothic years.