12-letter words containing s, a, d, o
- savings bond — a U.S. government bond with principal amounts up to $10,000.
- say the word — If someone says the word, they give their approval as a sign that something should start to happen.
- scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
- scandalously — disgraceful; shameful or shocking; improper: scandalous behavior in public.
- scarlatinoid — resembling scarlatina or its eruptions.
- school board — a local board or committee in charge of public education.
- scot and lot — British History. a municipal tax assessed proportionately upon the members of a community.
- scott domain — An algebraic, boundedly complete, complete partial order. Often simply called a domain.
- scouring pad — a small pad, as of steel wool or plastic mesh, used for scouring pots, pans, etc.
- scout around — search
- scout leader — the leader of a troop of Scouts
- scraperboard — scratchboard.
- scratchboard — a cardboard coated with impermeable white clay and covered by a layer of ink that is scratched or scraped in patterns revealing the white surface below.
- screw around — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
- scrieveboard — the drawing board of a shipbuilder
- scrive board — a floorlike construction on which the lines of a vessel can be drawn or scribed at full size.
- scsi adaptor — (hardware) (Or "host adaptor") A device that communicates between a computer and its SCSI peripherals. The SCSI adaptor is usually assigned SCSI ID 7. It is often a separate card that is connected to the computer's bus (e.g. PCI, ISA, PCMCIA) though increasinly, SCSI adaptors are built in to the motherboard. Apart from being cheaper, busses like PCI are too slow to keep up with the newer SCSI standards like Ultra SCSI and Ultra-Wide SCSI. There are several varieties of SCSI (and their connectors) and an adaptor will not support them all. The performance of SCSI devices is limited by the speed of the SCSI adaptor and its connection to the computer. An adaptor that plugs into a parallel port is unlikely to be as fast as one incorporated into a motherboard. Fast adaptors use DMA or bus mastering. Some SCSI adaptors include a BIOS to allow PCs to boot from a SCSI hard disk, if their own BIOS supports it. Note that it is not a "SCSI controller" - it does not control the devices, and "SCSI interface" is redundant - the "I" of "SCSI" stands for "interface".
- search order — an injunction allowing a person to enter the premises of another to search for and take copies of evidence required for a court case, used esp in cases of infringement of copyright
- second grade — school year: age 7-8
- second-class — of a secondary class or quality.
- section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
- self-command — self-control.
- self-loading — noting or pertaining to an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
- semi-dormant — lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid: The lecturer's sudden shout woke the dormant audience.
- semi-nomadic — of, relating to, or characteristic of nomads.
- semidominant — producing an intermediate, heterozygous phenotype
- serial bonds — Serial bonds are bonds that are issued at the same time but have staggered maturity dates.
- serra do mar — a mountain range on the SE coast of Brazil. Highest point, 7420 feet (2262 meters).
- service road — frontage road.
- several-fold — comprising several parts or members.
- shadow bands — slow-moving waves of light and dark observed to move across light-coloured surfaces on the earth just before and after totality in a solar eclipse. They are thought to originate from the effects of irregular atmospheric refraction
- shadow dance — a dance in which shadows of the dancers are cast on a screen.
- shadow price — the calculated price of a good or service for which no market price exists
- shadowgraphy — the production of a shadowgraph
- shared logic — the sharing of a central processing unit and associated software among several terminals
- shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
- shop steward — commerce: union rep
- short radius — the perpendicular distance from the centre of a regular polygon to a side
- short-haired — having short hair
- short-handed — not having the usual or necessary number of workers, helpers, etc.
- shortchanged — to give less than the correct change to.
- shoshone dam — a dam on the Shoshone River. 328 feet (100 meters) high.
- shoulder bag — a handbag with shoulder strap attached.
- shoulder pad — clothing: insert in shoulder
- shoulder-bag — A shoulder-bag is a bag that has a long strap so that it can be carried on a person's shoulder.
- shovel-ready — of or relating to a construction project that is ready to start immediately
- shuffleboard — a game in which standing players shove or push wooden or plastic disks with a long cue toward numbered scoring sections marked on a floor or deck.
- siderography — the art or technique of engraving on steel.
- signal board — a board for displaying electrically transmitted signals and indicating their source.
- sindonophany — the periodic exhibiting to the public of the shroud that the body of Christ is thought to have been wrapped in