12-letter words containing s, t, e, d
- border state — a state adjacent to a border
- border taxes — taxes payable on goods taken across a border
- bread basket — If an area or region is described as the bread basket of a country, it provides a lot of the food for that country because crops grow very easily there. It therefore produces wealth for the country.
- bread-basket — a basket or similar container for bread or rolls.
- breast drill — a geared drill that can be braced against the chest for additional leverage.
- bridal suite — a room or set of rooms in a hotel for newly married couples
- buddy system — (in swimming and scuba diving) the practice of pairing swimmers, each being responsible for the other's safety.
- bushy-tailed — bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, fresh, alert, eager, and lively
- busted flush — a poker hand with four cards of the same suit that fails to form a flush when the final card is dealt
- cadent house — any of the four houses that precede the angles: the third, sixth, ninth, and twelfth houses, which correspond, respectively, to neighborhood and relatives, work and health, philosophy and foreign travel, and secret matters and service to others.
- cadet school — a training establishment for cadets in the army
- caked breast — a painful hardening of one or more lobules of a lactating breast, caused by stagnation of milk in the secreting ducts and accumulation of blood in the expanded veins; stagnation mastitis.
- candlesticks — Plural form of candlestick.
- candy stripe — a pattern of bright stripes of one color against a plain background, used chiefly in fabrics.
- card stacker — the part of a card punch or card reader that collects into a pile those cards that have been processed
- cardinalates — Plural form of cardinalate.
- cash deficit — the excess of cash disbursements over cash receipts in any given fiscal period
- cash-starved — A cash-starved company or organization does not have enough money to operate properly, usually because another organization, such as the government, is not giving them the money that they need.
- cat's cradle — a game played by making intricate patterns with a loop of string between the fingers
- catbird seat — an enviable position, as of power
- cathode rays — a stream of electrons emitted from the surface of a cathode in a valve
- centerboards — Plural form of centerboard.
- centeredness — The state of being centered.
- chesterfield — a man's knee-length overcoat, usually with a fly front to conceal the buttons and having a velvet collar
- chinese date — an Old World tree, Ziziphus jujuba, thriving in hot, dry regions.
- class method — (programming) 1. A method that operates on a class object (an object of class "class"). A class method is really just an ordinary object method that happens to operate on class objects. A class method might, for example, return a list of objects representing the methods and attributes of the given class. 2. A static method.
- clearsighted — seeing clearly
- close-fisted — very careful with money; mean
- closed-stack — having access to the stacks limited to the staff of the library or to a limited group of library users.
- closemouthed — not talking much; telling little; taciturn
- closet drama — drama suitable for reading rather than performing
- closing date — The closing date for a competition or offer is the final date by which entries or applications must be received.
- clotheslined — Simple past tense and past participle of clothesline.
- cloud forest — a forest, usually near coastal mountain peaks in tropical regions, that has an almost constant cloud cover, even during the dry season
- co-president — a person who shares the highest position in an organization with another person
- cobblestoned — Cobbled; laid with cobblestones.
- code segment — (memory) (Intel 8086 CS) The area of memory containing the machine code instructions of a program. The code segment of a program may be shared between multiple processes running that code so long as none of them tries to modify it. Initialised data is located in the data segment.
- codefendants — Plural form of codefendant.
- coding sheet — a form on which a program is written
- cold storage — If something such as food is put in cold storage, it is kept in an artificially-cooled place in order to preserve it.
- commandments — a command or mandate.
- commiserated — Simple past tense and past participle of commiserate.
- commoditised — Simple past tense and past participle of commoditise.
- computerised — to control, perform, process, or store (a system, operation, or information) by means of or in an electronic computer or computers.
- condensation — Condensation consists of small drops of water which form when warm water vapour or steam touches a cold surface such as a window.
- conditioners — Plural form of conditioner.
- conductances — Plural form of conductance.
- confederates — Plural form of confederate.
- considerated — Simple past tense and past participle of considerate.
- consolidated — consolidated (def 2).