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12-letter words containing s, e, c, i, o, n

  • ribonuclease — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of RNA.
  • rock jasmine — any of several alpine plants belonging to the genus Androsace, of the primrose family, having tufted leaves often in basal rosettes, and umbels of pink, red, purple, or white flowers.
  • rose campion — a plant, Lychnis coronaria, of the pink family, having reddish purple flowers, and leaves covered with whitish down.
  • saffron rice — a dish made from white rice and flavoured with the spice saffron
  • sanctionable — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
  • sapindaceous — belonging to the Sapindaceae, the soapberry family of plants.
  • scapegoating — the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself.
  • scatteration — the act of scattering.
  • scenographic — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
  • schizogenous — schizogenetic.
  • schizophrene — a person with schizophrenia or one who tends toward schizophrenia
  • schoenheimer — Rudolf [roo-dolf;; German roo-dawlf] /ˈru dɒlf;; German ˈru dɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1898–1941, U.S. biochemist, born in Germany.
  • schooner rig — a rig in which the mainmast is taller than the foremast
  • scitamineous — of or relating to the Scitimanae order of plants, which includes the ginger and banana plants
  • scolopendrid — any myriapod of the order Scolopendrida, including many large, poisonous centipedes.
  • scorekeeping — an official of a sports contest who keeps record of the score.
  • scutellation — a scutellate state or formation; a scaly covering, as on a bird's foot.
  • sea crossing — a journey by sea from one coast to another
  • sea scorpion — scorpionfish.
  • secessionism — a person who secedes, advocates secession, or claims secession as a constitutional right.
  • secessionist — a person who secedes, advocates secession, or claims secession as a constitutional right.
  • seclusionist — a person who prefers to be alone or secluded
  • second birth — spiritual rebirth.
  • second reich — the German Empire 1871–1919.
  • second sight — the faculty of seeing future events; clairvoyance.
  • section boss — the boss of a section gang.
  • section gang — a group of workers who take care of a section of railroad track.
  • section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
  • section mark — section (def 16).
  • sectionalism — excessive regard for sectional or local interests; regional or local spirit, prejudice, etc.
  • sectionalize — to render sectional.
  • seismonastic — of or relating to seismonasty
  • selectionist — a person who believes in natural selection
  • self-closing — the end or conclusion, as of a speech.
  • self-conceit — an excessively favorable opinion of oneself, one's abilities, etc.; vanity.
  • self-cooking — the act of a person or thing that cooks.
  • self-locking — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
  • self-mocking — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
  • semi-fiction — the class of literature comprising works of imaginative narration, especially in prose form.
  • semi-nomadic — of, relating to, or characteristic of nomads.
  • semi-organic — noting or pertaining to a class of chemical compounds that formerly comprised only those existing in or derived from plants or animals, but that now includes all other compounds of carbon.
  • semicolonial — partly colonial
  • semimonastic — somewhat monastic; monastic in certain respects
  • senior clerk — a clerk who is in a senior position and performs office tasks under minimal supervision
  • seroreaction — any reaction occurring in serum.
  • serotonergic — containing or activated by serotonin.
  • serve notice — to give formal warning or information, as of intentions; announce
  • servicewoman — a woman who is a member of the armed forces of a country.
  • set function — a function having a collection of sets as domain.
  • sexdecillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 51 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 96 zeros.
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