12-letter words containing o, s, i, c, l, e
- precariously — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
- precessional — the act or fact of preceding; precedence.
- precociously — unusually advanced or mature in development, especially mental development: a precocious child.
- preschooling — the education of preschool children.
- preselection — to select in advance; choose beforehand.
- primulaceous — belonging to the plant family Primulaceae.
- problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
- processional — of, relating to, or characteristic of a procession.
- proclivities — natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.
- prolificness — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
- proscribable — to denounce or condemn (a thing) as dangerous or harmful; prohibit.
- prosectorial — characteristic of a prosector
- psychologize — to make psychological investigations or speculations, especially those that are naive or uninformed.
- public house — British. a tavern.
- re-solicited — to seek for (something) by entreaty, earnest or respectful request, formal application, etc.: He solicited aid from the minister.
- rectirostral — (of a bird) having a straight bill.
- reg-symbolic — An early system on the IBM 704.
- ribonuclease — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of RNA.
- sacrilegious — pertaining to or involving sacrilege: sacrilegious practices.
- sales office — the office or room of the department of a company responsible for selling its goods or services
- sanctionable — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- sclerodermic — of or relating to a scleroderm or to sclerodermia; hard-skinned
- 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.
- scots gaelic — Scottish Gaelic
- scrobiculate — furrowed or pitted.
- scutellation — a scutellate state or formation; a scaly covering, as on a bird's foot.
- seclusionist — a person who prefers to be alone or secluded
- secobarbital — a white, odorless, slightly bitter powder, C 1 2 H 1 8 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative and hypnotic.
- sectionalism — excessive regard for sectional or local interests; regional or local spirit, prejudice, etc.
- sectionalize — to render sectional.
- selectionist — a person who believes in natural selection
- self-closing — the end or conclusion, as of a speech.
- self-conceit — an excessively favorable opinion of oneself, one's abilities, etc.; vanity.
- self-cooking — the act of a person or thing that cooks.
- self-locking — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
- self-mocking — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
- semicolonial — partly colonial
- semiofficial — having some degree of official authority.
- semiological — the study of signs and symbols; semiotics.
- semitropical — subtropical.
- senior clerk — a clerk who is in a senior position and performs office tasks under minimal supervision
- 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.
- sexdecillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 51 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 96 zeros.
- shared logic — the sharing of a central processing unit and associated software among several terminals
- short splice — a splice used when an increased thickness of the united rope is not objectionable, made by unlaying the rope ends a certain distance, uniting them so that their strands overlap, then tucking each alternately over and under others several times.
- siderophilic — having characteristics of siderophile
- siliciferous — containing, combined with, or producing silica.
- silicon glen — a collective term for the industries in Scotland associated with information technology, esp those concentrated in the central conurbation between Glasgow and Edinburgh
- 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.