12-letter words containing s, c, a, l, e
- illiteracies — Plural form of illiteracy.
- implicatures — Plural form of implicature.
- inaccessible — Unable to be reached.
- inaccessibly — In an inaccessible manner.
- incalescence — The state of being incalescent, or growing warm.
- incapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of incapsulate.
- incapsulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incapsulate.
- inconsolable — not able to be comforted or consoled; disconsolate: She was inconsolable when her son died.
- inconsumable — not consumable; incapable of being consumed.
- increasingly — growing larger or greater; enlarging; augmenting.
- indelicacies — Plural form of indelicacy.
- inelasticity — not elastic; lacking flexibility or resilience; unyielding.
- inexcuseable — Alternative form of inexcusable.
- infomercials — Plural form of infomercial.
- infraclasses — Plural form of infraclass.
- inscrutables — Plural form of inscrutable.
- inspectional — Of or pertaining to an inspection.
- inspectorial — Of or pertaining to an inspector or to inspection.
- intercalates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intercalate.
- intercoastal — existing or done between seacoasts; involving two or more seacoasts.
- intercostals — Plural form of intercostal.
- interlacings — Plural form of interlacing.
- interspecial — of a distinct or particular kind or character: a special kind of key.
- intolerances — Plural form of intolerance.
- intravesical — Within the urinary bladder.
- irish gaelic — Irish (def 4).
- ironicalness — The quality of being ironical.
- irrelevances — Plural form of irrelevance.
- ischiorectal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the region between the rectum and the ischial tuberosity.
- jack russell — a small short-legged terrier having a white coat with tan, black, or lemon markings: there are rough- and smooth-haired varieties
- jackson hole — a valley in NW Wyoming, near the Teton Range: wildlife preserve.
- jacksonville — a seaport in NE Florida, on the St. John's River.
- jaculiferous — having dartlike spines.
- jocularities — the state or quality of being jocular.
- kaleidoscope — an optical instrument in which bits of glass, held loosely at the end of a rotating tube, are shown in continually changing symmetrical forms by reflection in two or more mirrors set at angles to each other.
- kelvin scale — William Thomson, 1st Baron, 1824–1907, English physicist and mathematician.
- kilocalories — Plural form of kilocalorie.
- kitchen salt — coarse salt that is used in cooking but not at the table
- knuckleballs — Plural form of knuckleball.
- knuckleheads — Plural form of knucklehead.
- lake charles — a city in SW Louisiana.
- lake jackson — a town in S Texas.
- lake success — a town on Long Island, in SE New York: temporary United Nations headquarters 1946–51.
- lane closure — the closing of a lane on a motorway
- laparoscopes — Plural form of laparoscope.
- lapidescence — a lapidescent quality or condition
- laryngoscope — a rigid or flexible endoscope passed through the mouth and equipped with a source of light and magnification, for examining and performing local diagnostic and surgical procedures on the larynx.
- lascaux cave — a cave in Lascaux, France, discovered in 1940 and containing exceptionally fine Paleolithic wall paintings and engravings thought to date to Magdalenian times (c13,000–8500 b.c.).
- laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
- latus rectum — the chord perpendicular to the principal axis and passing through a focus of an ellipse, parabola, or hyperbola.