12-letter words containing s, i, l, c, a, d
- mendaciously — In a lying or deceitful manner.
- middle class — educated and well off
- middle-class — of, relating to, or characteristic of the middle class; bourgeois: middle-class taste; middle-class morality.
- misallocated — to allocate mistakenly or improperly: to misallocate resources.
- musical ride — a display by riders on horseback of manoeuvres to music, esp by members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- noncustodial — Not having custody of one’s children after a divorce.
- nondualistic — of, relating to, or of the nature of dualism.
- nucleocapsid — the nucleic acid core and surrounding capsid of a virus; the basic viral structure.
- nucleosidase — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of nucleosides.
- nucleotidase — a biochemical catalyst that facilitates the process of hydrolyzing or splitting a nucleotide and turning it into a phosphate and a nucleoside
- old slavonic — Old Church Slavonic.
- optical disc — Also, optical disc. Also called laser disk. a grooveless disk on which digital data, as text, music, or pictures, is stored as tiny pits in the surface and is read or replayed by a laser beam scanning the surface.
- optical disk — Also, optical disc. Also called laser disk. a grooveless disk on which digital data, as text, music, or pictures, is stored as tiny pits in the surface and is read or replayed by a laser beam scanning the surface.
- paludicolous — inhabiting marshland
- paradisaical — paradisiacal.
- paradisiacal — of, like, or befitting paradise.
- pascal-linda — Ian Flockhart, U Edinburgh, 1991. Under development.
- peccadilloes — a very minor or slight sin or offense; a trifling fault.
- plaid screen — [XEROX PARC] A "special effect" that occurs when certain kinds of memory smashes overwrite the control blocks or image memory of a bit-mapped display. The term "salt and pepper" may refer to a different pattern of similar origin. Though the term as coined at PARC refers to the result of an error, some of the X demos induce plaid-screen effects deliberately as a display hack.
- postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
- prosodically — in a prosodic manner
- radical axis — the line such that tangents drawn from any point of the line to two given circles are equal in length.
- radical sign — the symbol √ or indicating extraction of a root of the quantity that follows it, as √25=5 or .
- radicicolous — living on the roots of plants
- reclassified — to classify anew.
- saccadically — in a saccadical manner
- saccharoidal — having a crystalline or granular texture: said esp. of some sandstones and marbles
- sadistically — pertaining to or characterized by sadism; deriving pleasure or sexual gratification from extreme cruelty: a sadistic psychopath.
- salicylamide — a compound of ammonia and gualtheria oil
- sanctifiedly — in a sanctified manner
- sardonically — characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering: a sardonic grin.
- scalar field — a region with a number assigned at each point.
- scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
- scarlatinoid — resembling scarlatina or its eruptions.
- 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.
- scratchbuild — to build a scale model of something from scratch, that is, from raw materials like wood, clay or paper
- seed capital — small sum invested in new business
- selenic acid — a crystalline, water-soluble, strong, corrosive, dibasic acid, H 2 SeO 4 , resembling sulfuric acid.
- shared logic — the sharing of a central processing unit and associated software among several terminals
- shield match — a cricket match for the Sheffield Shield
- silicic acid — any of certain amorphous gelatinous masses, formed when alkaline silicates are treated with acids, which dissociate readily into silica and water.
- slam dancing — the act of hurling oneself repeatedly into or through a crowd at a rock-music concert
- sliced bread — bread: sold pre-sliced
- 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.
- social media — websites and other online means of communication that are used by large groups of people to share information and to develop social and professional contacts: Many businesses are utilizing social media to generate sales.
- social order — structure or hierarchy of society
- soldier crab — a small blue Australian estuarine crab of the Mictyris genus usually found in large numbers
- solidaristic — relating to solidarism
- sporadically — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.