12-letter words containing s, c, a, l, e
- game console — Also called game(s) console, gaming console, video-game console. a computer system specially made for playing video games by connecting it to a television or other display for video and sound.
- gapped scale — a scale, such as a pentatonic scale, containing fewer than seven notes
- garlic press — kitchen tool for crushing garlic
- gas cylinder — container for storing gas
- geanticlines — Plural form of geanticline.
- gear cluster — an assembly of gears permanently attached to a shaft
- geosynclinal — Geology. pertaining to a synclinal fold that involves a relatively large part of the earth's surface.
- gesellschaft — an association of individuals for common goals, as for entertainment, intellectual, or cultural purposes or for business reasons.
- gesticulated — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- gesticulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gesticulate.
- gesticulator — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- glacis plate — the frontal plate armour on a tank
- glass cutter — a tool for cutting glass.
- glaucescence — the state of having bluish green coloration
- glaucousness — Quality of being glaucous.
- glossematics — a school of linguistic analysis developed by Louis Hjelmslev (1899–1965) in Copenhagen in the 1930s based on the study of the distribution of glossemes.
- glycosidases — Plural form of glycosidase.
- glycosylated — Simple past tense and past participle of glycosylate.
- gracefullest — Superlative form of graceful.
- gracefulness — The state of being graceful.
- grade school — an elementary school that has its pupils grouped or classified into grades.
- grand siècle — the 17th century in French art and literature, esp the classical period of Louis XIV
- granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
- griddlecakes — Plural form of griddlecake.
- hadley chest — a style of chest made c1700 in Massachusetts or Connecticut, having front rails and panels carved in low relief with elaborate tulip and leaf patterns.
- half section — a part that is cut off or separated.
- half-section — a part that is cut off or separated.
- hall process — a process in which aluminum is refined by electrolytic reduction of alumina fused with cryolite.
- hallucinates — to have hallucinations.
- hardscrabble — providing or yielding meagerly in return for much effort; demanding or unrewarding: the hardscrabble existence of mountainside farmers.
- health scare — a state of alarm caused by a revelation concerning public heath
- helical scan — denoting a recording technique used with video tapes in which the recorded tracks on the tape are segments of a helix
- helicographs — Plural form of helicograph.
- hellaciously — In a hellacious manner.
- hells canyon — a canyon on the Snake River in S Idaho and along the Oregon border: 125 miles (210 km) long with a maximum depth of about 7900 feet (2408 meters).
- hematocolpos — (medicine) A medical condition in which the vagina fills with menstrual blood, often caused by the combination of menstruation with an imperforate hymen.
- hemerocallis — the genus comprising the day lilies.
- hemophiliacs — Plural form of hemophiliac.
- heterosocial — relating to or denoting mixed-sex social relationships
- hever castle — a Tudor mansion near Edenbridge in Kent: home of Anne Boleyn before her marriage; Italian garden added in the 20th century by the Astor family
- horse-collar — (especially in baseball) a score of zero.
- housecleaner — Someone employed to clean a house.
- hydroelastic — undergoing a change in elasticity as a result of the flow of water or another fluid
- hyper-social — relating to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations: a social club.
- hyperalgesic — Of or pertaining to hyperalgesia.
- hyperplastic — Of, or relating to hyperplasia.
- hysterically — of, relating to, or characterized by hysteria.
- ice crystals — ice formations
- iceland moss — an edible lichen, Cetraria islandica, of arctic regions, containing a starchlike substance used in medicine.
- iceland spar — a transparent variety of calcite that is double-refracting and is used as a polarizer.