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12-letter words containing s, h, e, c

  • safety touch — a two-point play
  • sanity check — (programming)   1. Checking code (or anything else, e.g. a Usenet posting) for completely stupid mistakes. Implies that the check is to make sure the author was sane when it was written; e.g. if a piece of scientific software relied on a particular formula and was giving unexpected results, one might first look at the nesting of parentheses or the coding of the formula, as a "sanity check", before looking at the more complex I/O or data structure manipulation routines, much less the algorithm itself. Compare reality check. 2. A run-time test, either validating input or ensuring that the program hasn't screwed up internally (producing an inconsistent value or state).
  • saskatchewan — a province in W Canada. 251,700 sq. mi. (651,900 sq. km). Capital: Regina.
  • scampishness — the quality of being scampish
  • scatter shot — shot prepared for a weapon having a rifled bore or barrel.
  • scattergraph — a graphic representation of bivariate data as a set of points in the plane that have Cartesian coordinates equal to corresponding values of the two variates.
  • scene change — a change of scene in a theatre, where one set is dismantled and another is erected
  • scenographic — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
  • schaffhausen — a canton in N Switzerland. 100 sq. mi. (259 sq. km).
  • schappe silk — a yarn or fabric of or similar to spun silk.
  • scheherazade — (in The Arabian Nights' Entertainments) the wife of the sultan of India, who relates such interesting tales nightly that the sultan spares her life.
  • scheme-linda — A Scheme interface to Linda written by Ulf Dahlen of University of Edinburgh in 1990. It runs on the Computing Surface and the Symmetry.
  • schererville — a town in NW Indiana.
  • scheveningen — a town in the W Netherlands, near The Hague: seaside resort.
  • schiaparelli — Elsa [el-sah] /ˈɛl sɑ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1973, French fashion designer, born in Italy.
  • schindylesis — an articulation or fibrous joint in which one bone is received into the cleft or slit of another bone
  • schindyletic — relating to the joint in which one bone is received into the cleft or slit of another bone
  • schizogenous — schizogenetic.
  • schizomycete — any of numerous microorganisms of the subkingdom (or phylum) Schizophyta, kingdom Monera, comprising the bacteria.
  • schizophrene — a person with schizophrenia or one who tends toward schizophrenia
  • schmalkalden — a town in central Germany: a league to defend Protestantism formed here 1531.
  • schneiderman — Rose, 1884–1972, U.S. labor leader, born in Poland.
  • schoenheimer — Rudolf [roo-dolf;; German roo-dawlf] /ˈru dɒlf;; German ˈru dɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1898–1941, U.S. biochemist, born in Germany.
  • schoolfellow — a schoolmate.
  • schoolmaster — a man who presides over or teaches in a school.
  • schooner rig — a rig in which the mainmast is taller than the foremast
  • schopenhauer — Arthur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1788–1860, German philosopher.
  • schreinering — to produce a lustrous finish on (a fabric) by subjecting it to pressure exerted by rollers engraved with many fine lines.
  • schreinerize — to produce a lustrous finish on (a fabric) by subjecting it to pressure exerted by rollers engraved with many fine lines.
  • schrieffer's — John Robert, born 1931, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1972.
  • schussboomer — a skier who is skilled at schussing.
  • schwann cell — a cell of the peripheral nervous system that wraps around a nerve fiber, jelly-roll fashion, forming the myelin sheath.
  • sclerenchyma — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
  • sclerophylly — the normal development of much sclerenchyma in the leaves of certain plants, as some desert plants, resulting in thickened, hardened foliage that resists loss of moisture.
  • scratch file — A scratch file is a temporary computer file which you use as a work area or as a store while a program is operating.
  • scratch line — a line that marks the start of a race.
  • scratch race — a race in which all contestants start on equal terms
  • scratch tape — a magnetic tape that is used for temporary storage, which may be erased and re-used
  • scratch test — a test for a suspected allergy in which the skin is scratched and an allergen applied to the area, redness indicating a positive reaction.
  • scratchplate — a plastic or metal plate attached to the front of a guitar to protect it from pick scratches
  • screw thread — Also called worm. the helical ridge of a screw.
  • scrimshander — a person who makes scrimshaw objects.
  • scrimshanker — a shirker
  • sea crawfish — spiny lobster
  • sea crayfish — spiny lobster.
  • search order — an injunction allowing a person to enter the premises of another to search for and take copies of evidence required for a court case, used esp in cases of infringement of copyright
  • search party — a group of persons conducting an organized search for someone or something lost or hidden.
  • secchi depth — the depth at which a Secchi disk is no longer visible from the surface of ocean water.
  • secd machine — Stack Environment Control Dump machine
  • second birth — spiritual rebirth.
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