12-letter words containing s, e, l, c, t, d
- leeds castle — a castle near Maidstone in Kent: the home of several medieval queens of England
- maledictions — Plural form of malediction.
- misallocated — to allocate mistakenly or improperly: to misallocate resources.
- nested class — (Java) In Java, a class defined within an enclosing class definition. A static nested class has no direct access to the members of its enclosing class whereas a non-static nested class, known as an "inner class", is associated with an instance of the enclosing class and an instance of the inner class has direct access to the members of its enclosing instance.
- non-selected — to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.
- nucleotidase — a biochemical catalyst that facilitates the process of hydrolyzing or splitting a nucleotide and turning it into a phosphate and a nucleoside
- old chestnut — old saying, cliché
- plattdeutsch — the Low German vernacular dialects spoken in northern Germany.
- postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
- poster child — a child appearing on a poster for a charitable organization.
- re-solicited — to seek for (something) by entreaty, earnest or respectful request, formal application, etc.: He solicited aid from the minister.
- rocket salad — rocket2 (def 2).
- rocket-salad — any of various plants belonging to the genus Hesperis, of the mustard family, and related genera. Compare dame's rocket.
- rust-colored — of the color rust.
- sacred lotus — Indian lotus.
- sanctifiedly — in a sanctified manner
- schindyletic — relating to the joint in which one bone is received into the cleft or slit of another bone
- scott-closed — A set S, a subset of D, is Scott-closed if (1) If Y is a subset of S and Y is directed then lub Y is in S and (2) If y <= s in S then y is in S. I.e. a Scott-closed set contains the lubs of its directed subsets and anything less than any element. (2) says that S is downward closed (or left closed). ("<=" is written in LaTeX as \sqsubseteq).
- scout leader — the leader of a troop of Scouts
- seed capital — small sum invested in new business
- self-centred — concerned solely or chiefly with one's own interests, welfare, etc.; engrossed in self; selfish; egotistical.
- self-created — to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.
- self-elected — chosen by vote, as for an office (contrasted with appointed): an elected official.
- self-excited — noting a generator with magnets that are excited by the current it produces.
- shelter deck — a weather deck covering a space not considered fully watertight.
- shield match — a cricket match for the Sheffield Shield
- slide-action — (of a rifle or shotgun) having a lever that when slid back and forth ejects the empty case and cocks and reloads the piece.
- sole custody — custody, as of a child whose parents are separated, in which one person has sole responsibility.
- solid rocket — any of various rockets using solid fuel
- south euclid — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- split second — a fraction of a second.
- stacked heel — a shoe heel constructed from several layers of material.
- stated clerk — an administrative official in the Presbyterian Church and certain other Protestant churches
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- stock saddle — Western saddle.
- stockholders — Also called stockowner. a holder or owner of stock in a corporation.
- straddleback — astride, on horseback
- strait-laced — excessively strict in conduct or morality; puritanical; prudish: strait-laced censors.
- street child — Street children are homeless children who live outdoors in a city and live by begging or stealing.
- subduplicate — of the square root of ratios
- testiculated — like a testicle, esp in shape
- trade school — a high school giving instruction chiefly in the skilled trades.
- transdialect — to translate (speech, writing, etc.) into a different dialect.
- tropicalised — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- tuberculosed — tuberculous
- underclothes — clothes worn under outer clothes.
- unidealistic — of or relating to idealism or idealists.
- unsculptured — not resembling a sculpture
- unspectacled — lacking spectacles
- volstead act — an act of Congress, introduced in 1919 by Andrew J. Volstead to implement the Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution, which forbade the sale of alcoholic beverages.