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12-letter words containing s, i, c, a, t

  • schizothymia — the condition of being schizoid or introverted. It encompasses elements of schizophrenia but does not involve the same depth of psychological disturbance
  • scintigraphy — the process of producing a scintigram.
  • scintillator — a phosphor capable of producing scintillations.
  • scissiparity — reproduction by one cell splitting into two
  • scitamineous — of or relating to the Scitimanae order of plants, which includes the ginger and banana plants
  • scopes trial — John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
  • scoptophilia — the obtaining of sexual pleasure by looking at nude bodies, erotic photographs, etc.
  • scotch grain — a coarse, pebble-grained finish given to heavy leather, esp. for men's shoes
  • scots gaelic — Scottish Gaelic
  • scott domain — An algebraic, boundedly complete, complete partial order. Often simply called a domain.
  • scram switch — (jargon)   (From the nuclear power industry) An emergency power-off switch (see Big Red Switch), especially one positioned to be easily hit by evacuating personnel. In general, this is *not* something you frob lightly; these often initiate expensive events (such as Halon dumps) and are installed in a dinosaur pen for use in case of electrical fire or in case some luckless field servoid should put 120 volts across himself while Easter egging. SCRAM stands for Safety Control Rod Ax Man. In the early days of nuclear power, boron moderator rods were raised and lowered on ropes. In the event of a runaway chain reaction, a man with an axe would chop the rope and drop the rods into the nuclear pile to stop the reaction. See also molly-guard, TMRC.
  • scratch disk — 1.   (storage)   See scratch. 2.   (operating system)   Unallocated space on Windows 95's primary hard disk partition, used for virtual memory. Shortage of space on this partition can result in the error "scratch disk full".
  • 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.
  • scratchbuild — to build a scale model of something from scratch, that is, from raw materials like wood, clay or paper
  • scratchbuilt — describing something which has been constructed by scratchbuilding
  • scratchingly — in a scratching manner, with a scratching action
  • scratchpad i — (language)   A general-purpose language originally for interactive symbolic mathematics by Richard Jenks, Barry Trager, Stephen M. Watt and Robert S. Sutor of IBM Research, ca 1971. It features abstract parametrised data types, multiple inheritance and polymorphism. There were implementations for VM/CMS and AIX.
  • scripturally — (sometimes initial capital letter) of, relating to, or in accordance with sacred writings, especially the Scriptures.
  • scrobiculate — furrowed or pitted.
  • scrutability — capable of being understood by careful study or investigation.
  • scsi adaptor — (hardware)   (Or "host adaptor") A device that communicates between a computer and its SCSI peripherals. The SCSI adaptor is usually assigned SCSI ID 7. It is often a separate card that is connected to the computer's bus (e.g. PCI, ISA, PCMCIA) though increasinly, SCSI adaptors are built in to the motherboard. Apart from being cheaper, busses like PCI are too slow to keep up with the newer SCSI standards like Ultra SCSI and Ultra-Wide SCSI. There are several varieties of SCSI (and their connectors) and an adaptor will not support them all. The performance of SCSI devices is limited by the speed of the SCSI adaptor and its connection to the computer. An adaptor that plugs into a parallel port is unlikely to be as fast as one incorporated into a motherboard. Fast adaptors use DMA or bus mastering. Some SCSI adaptors include a BIOS to allow PCs to boot from a SCSI hard disk, if their own BIOS supports it. Note that it is not a "SCSI controller" - it does not control the devices, and "SCSI interface" is redundant - the "I" of "SCSI" stands for "interface".
  • scutellation — a scutellate state or formation; a scaly covering, as on a bird's foot.
  • secobarbital — a white, odorless, slightly bitter powder, C 1 2 H 1 8 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative and hypnotic.
  • sectarianism — sectarian spirit or tendencies; excessive devotion to a particular sect, especially in religion.
  • sectarianize — to make sectarian.
  • 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.
  • security van — an armoured van used to transport money or other valuables
  • seed capital — small sum invested in new business
  • seismonastic — of or relating to seismonasty
  • semantic web — an extension of the World Wide Web in which data is structured and XML-tagged on the basis of its meaning or content, so that computers can process and integrate the information without human intervention: the semantic Web acting as a global database or huge brain.
  • semantically — of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.
  • semiabstract — of or relating to art or sculpture which is abstract but in which the subject can still be recognized
  • semiattached — partially attached; semidetached.
  • semicomatose — a light coma from which a person can be roused.
  • semidetached — partly detached.
  • semimetallic — partially metallic; of the nature of a semi-metal
  • semimonastic — somewhat monastic; monastic in certain respects
  • semimystical — somewhat mystical; having a mystical quality to a partial degree
  • semitropical — subtropical.
  • sensualistic — of or pertaining to the philosophical position of sensualism
  • separatrices — something that divides or separates, as the line between light and dark areas on a partially illuminated surface.
  • septuplicate — a group, series, or set of seven identical copies (usually preceded by in).
  • seroreaction — any reaction occurring in serum.
  • service flat — an apartment with complete hotel services.
  • sextuplicate — a group, series, or set of six identical copies: The application is to be submitted in sextuplicate.
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