12-letter words containing s, c, r, e
- hyper-social — relating to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations: a social club.
- hyperalgesic — Of or pertaining to hyperalgesia.
- hypercoaster — Megacoaster.
- hypercritics — a person who is excessively or captiously critical.
- hyperplastic — Of, or relating to hyperplasia.
- hypersarcoma — a growth of proud or fungous flesh
- hypersomniac — a tendency to sleep excessively.
- hypersurface — a mathematical object that generalizes the concept of surface from three-dimensional Euclidean space to hyperspace.
- hysterectomy — excision of the uterus.
- hysterically — of, relating to, or characterized by hysteria.
- hysterogenic — inducing hysteria.
- hysteroscopy — (medicine) The examination of the uterus using a hysteroscope.
- iatrochemist — a person who practises iatrochemistry
- icbm address — (networking, humour) (Or "missile address") The form used to register a site with the Usenet mapping project includes a space for longitude and latitude, preferably to seconds-of-arc accuracy. This is actually used for generating geographically-correct maps of Usenet links on a plotter; however, it has become traditional to refer to this as one's "ICBM address" or "missile address", and many people include it in their sig block with that name. (A real missile address would include target altitude.)
- ice crystals — ice formations
- iceland spar — a transparent variety of calcite that is double-refracting and is used as a polarizer.
- icosahedrons — Plural form of icosahedron.
- illiteracies — Plural form of illiteracy.
- implicatures — Plural form of implicature.
- importancies — Plural form of importancy.
- imprecations — Plural form of imprecation.
- in course of — in the process of
- in residence — assigned to a staff position in an institution such as a college or university, while allowed sufficient time to pursue one's own professional work, study, or research (usually used in combination): a poet-in-residence at the university.
- in search of — looking for, seeking
- in the cards — a usually rectangular piece of stiff paper, thin pasteboard, or plastic for various uses, as to write information on or printed as a means of identifying the holder: a 3″ × 5″ file card; a membership card.
- in-residence — assigned to a staff position in an institution such as a college or university, while allowed sufficient time to pursue one's own professional work, study, or research (usually used in combination): a poet-in-residence at the university.
- inaccuracies — Plural form of inaccuracy.
- incarcerates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incarcerate.
- incendiaries — Plural form of incendiary.
- incendiarism — the act or practice of an arsonist; malicious burning.
- incense tree — any of various trees, as Boswellia carteri or those of the genus Protium, yielding an aromatic gum resin that is burned as incense.
- incinerators — Plural form of incinerator.
- inclusive or — the connective that gives the value true to a disjunction if either or both of the disjuncts are true
- incoherences — Plural form of incoherence.
- inconversant — Not conversant or acquainted (with something); unfamiliar.
- incorporates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incorporate.
- incrassative — A substance which has the power to thicken; formerly, a medicine supposed to thicken the humours.
- increasement — (rare) An increase; growth.
- increasingly — growing larger or greater; enlarging; augmenting.
- incrossbreed — to breed (animals) by crossbreeding inbred parents, whether of the same or of different breeds
- incumbrances — Plural form of incumbrance.
- indecorously — not decorous; violating generally accepted standards of good taste or propriety; unseemly.
- indian cress — a nasturtium, Tropaeolum majus, of South America, having red-spotted or red-striped, yellow-orange flowers, the young flower buds and fruits being used as seasoning.
- indirections — Plural form of indirection.
- indirectness — not in a direct course or path; deviating from a straight line; roundabout: an indirect course in sailing.
- indiscreetly — not discreet; lacking prudence, good judgment, or circumspection: an indiscreet remark.
- indiscretion — lack of discretion; imprudence.
- inflorescent — Of, pertaining to or causing inflorescence.
- infomercials — Plural form of infomercial.
- infraclasses — Plural form of infraclass.