12-letter words containing r, e, c, t, i, s
- retrocession — to cede back: to retrocede a territory.
- sabermetrics — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
- saint-brieuc — a department in NW France. 2787 sq. mi. (7220 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Brieuc.
- salescritter — /sayls'kri"tr/ Pejorative hackerism for a computer salesperson. Hackers tell the following joke: Q. What's the difference between a used-car dealer and a computer salesman? A. The used-car dealer knows he's lying. [Some versions add: ...and probably knows how to drive.] This reflects the widespread hacker belief that salescritters are self-selected for stupidity (after all, if they had brains and the inclination to use them, they'd be in programming). The terms "salesthing" and "salesdroid" are also common. Compare marketroid, suit.
- sand cricket — Jerusalem cricket.
- scared stiff — terrified
- scatter-site — designating or of inexpensive, publicly owned or financed housing units scattered throughout middle-class residential areas
- scatteration — the act of scattering.
- scatterbrain — a person incapable of serious, connected thought.
- scatteringly — in a scattering manner
- 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.
- scratch file — A scratch file is a temporary computer file which you use as a work area or as a store while a program is operating.
- scratch line — a line that marks the start of a race.
- screen print — artwork made by screen-printing
- screen-print — a print made by the silkscreen process.
- screenwriter — a person who writes screenplays, especially as an occupation or profession.
- scribblement — a scribble
- scriptwriter — a person who writes scripts, as for movies, radio, or television.
- scrobiculate — furrowed or pitted.
- secobarbital — a white, odorless, slightly bitter powder, C 1 2 H 1 8 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative and hypnotic.
- second birth — spiritual rebirth.
- sectarianism — sectarian spirit or tendencies; excessive devotion to a particular sect, especially in religion.
- sectarianize — to make sectarian.
- section mark — section (def 16).
- security van — an armoured van used to transport money or other valuables
- seismometric — of or relating to seismometry or a seismometer
- semiabstract — of or relating to art or sculpture which is abstract but in which the subject can still be recognized
- semitropical — subtropical.
- separatrices — something that divides or separates, as the line between light and dark areas on a partially illuminated surface.
- seroreaction — any reaction occurring in serum.
- serotonergic — containing or activated by serotonin.
- serve notice — to give formal warning or information, as of intentions; announce
- service flat — an apartment with complete hotel services.
- service lift — a lift which carries heavy goods in a place of business, as for example, plates in a restaurant
- service tree — either of two European trees, Sorbus domestica, bearing a small, acid fruit that is edible when overripe, or S. torminalis (wild service tree) bearing a similar fruit.
- shirt jacket — a shirtlike jacket.
- short notice — little warning
- 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.
- side circuit — a circuit derived from two suitably arranged pairs of wires, each pair being a circuit (side circuit) and also acting as one half of an additional derived circuit, the entire system providing the capabilities of three circuits while requiring wires for only two.
- sight screen — a white screen set in line with the wicket as an aid to the batsman in seeing the ball when it is bowled.
- silviculture — the cultivation of forest trees; forestry.
- single track — a single pair of lines so that trains can travel in only one direction at a time
- single-track — (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
- sitka spruce — a spruce, Picea sitchensis, of western North America, having long, silvery-white needles, grown as an ornamental.
- skirt chaser — a womanizer.
- skirt-chaser — a womanizer.
- smart cookie — intelligent or sharp-witted person
- soccer pitch — the field of play used in soccer
- sociocentric — oriented toward or focused on one's own social group.
- solid rocket — any of various rockets using solid fuel