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12-letter words containing s, u, c

  • secret sauce — a secret element, strategy, procedure, etc., that accounts for or increases the chances of success: The app's secret sauce is its simple interface.
  • secretagogue — a substance or situation that promotes secretion.
  • secunderabad — a city in N Andhra Pradesh, in central India, part of Hyderabad: a former British military cantonment.
  • secure shell — (operating system)   (ssh) A Unix shell program for logging into, and executing commands on, a remote computer. ssh is intended to replace rlogin and rsh, and provide secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network. X11 connections and arbitrary TCP/IP ports can also be forwarded over the secure channel.
  • security van — an armoured van used to transport money or other valuables
  • seed capsule — the part of a fruit enclosing the seeds; pericarp
  • self-focused — a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity: The need to prevent a nuclear war became the focus of all diplomatic efforts.
  • self-induced — induced by oneself or itself.
  • semicircular — Also called semicircumference [sem-ee-ser-kuhm-fer-uh ns, -fruh ns, sem-ahy-] /ˌsɛm i sərˈkʌm fər əns, -frəns, ˌsɛm aɪ-/ (Show IPA). half of a circle; the arc from one end of a diameter to the other.
  • semipellucid — somewhat pellucid; partially translucent or transparent
  • semiprecious — (of a stone) having commercial value as a gem but not classified as precious, as the amethyst or garnet.
  • sensualistic — of or pertaining to the philosophical position of sensualism
  • septuplicate — a group, series, or set of seven identical copies (usually preceded by in).
  • service club — any of several organizations dedicated to the growth and general welfare of its members and the community.
  • set function — a function having a collection of sets as domain.
  • set to music — to compose music for (a poem, etc.)
  • sextuplicate — a group, series, or set of six identical copies: The application is to be submitted in sextuplicate.
  • seymour cray — (person)   The founder of Cray Research and designer of several of their supercomputers. Cray has been a charismatic yet somewhat reclusive figure. He began Cray Research in Minnesota in 1972. In 1988, Cray moved his Cray-3 project to Colorado Springs. The next year, Cray Research spun it off to create Cray Computer. In 1989, Cray left Cray Research and started Cray Computer Corporation in Colorado Springs. His quest to build a faster computer using new-generation materials failed in 1995, and his bankruptcy cost half a billion dollars and more than 400 jobs. The company was unable to raise $20 million needed to finish the Cray-4 and filed for bankruptcy in March 1995. In the summer of 1996, Cray started a Colorado Springs-based company called SRC Computers, Inc. "We think we'll build computers, but who knows what kind or how," Cray said at the time. "We'll talk it over and see if we can come up with a plan." On 1996-09-22, aged 70, Cray broke his neck in a car accident. Surgery for massive head injuries and swelling of the brain leaving him in a critical and unstable condition.
  • sheep fescue — a widely distributed grass, Festuca ovina, having densely clustered stems and cultivated for lawns and forage.
  • ship biscuit — hardtack.
  • short column — a column whose relative dimensions ensure that when it is overloaded it fails by crushing, rather than buckling
  • shortcutting — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
  • shrimp sauce — a sauce made from shrimps
  • shuttlecraft — space shuttle.
  • side circuit — a circuit derived from two suitably arranged pairs of wires, each pair being a circuit (side circuit) and also acting as one half of an additional derived circuit, the entire system providing the capabilities of three circuits while requiring wires for only two.
  • silicicolous — thriving in siliceous soil
  • siliciferous — containing, combined with, or producing silica.
  • silviculture — the cultivation of forest trees; forestry.
  • sitka spruce — a spruce, Picea sitchensis, of western North America, having long, silvery-white needles, grown as an ornamental.
  • sitting duck — a helpless or easy target or victim: a sitting duck for shady financial schemes.
  • sivapithecus — a genus of extinct Miocene primates of Asia that resemble the modern orangutan.
  • six counties — the historic counties of Northern Ireland, which no longer have a local government function
  • sixth column — the persons residing in a country at war who are devoted to aiding the fifth column in its activities, especially by lowering morale, spreading rumors, etc.
  • skeuomorphic — an ornament or design on an object copied from a form of the object when made from another material or by other techniques, as an imitation metal rivet mark found on handles of prehistoric pottery.
  • smart casual — (of clothing) neat or professional-looking but fairly casual: The dress code for the event will be smart casual.
  • smilacaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Smilacaceae, a temperate and tropical family of monocotyledonous flowering plants, most of which are climbing shrubs with prickly stems: includes smilax
  • smooth sumac — a shrub or small tree, Rhus glabra, of the cashew family, native to North America, having pinnate leaves and green flowers in a dense terminal cluster.
  • snatch squad — a squad of soldiers or police trained to deal with demonstrations by picking out and arresting the alleged ringleaders
  • soda biscuit — a biscuit having soda and sour milk or buttermilk as leavening agents.
  • sole custody — custody, as of a child whose parents are separated, in which one person has sole responsibility.
  • solicitously — anxious or concerned (usually followed by about, for, etc., or a clause): solicitous about a person's health.
  • solifluction — creep (def 22a).
  • sound camera — a motion-picture camera that is capable of photographing silently at the normal speed of 24 fps and operating in synchronization with separate audio recording equipment.
  • sound change — any phonetic or phonological change in spoken language, for example the replacement of one speech sound with another, or the loss of a particular sound
  • sound effect — any sound, other than music or speech, artificially reproduced to create an effect in a dramatic presentation, as the sound of a storm or a creaking door.
  • soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
  • south africa — Republic of, a country in S Africa; member of the Commonwealth of Nations until 1961. 472,000 sq. mi. (1,222,480 sq. km). Capitals: Pretoria and Cape Town.
  • south euclid — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
  • south-facing — facing towards the south
  • spaciousness — containing much space, as a house, room, or vehicle; amply large.
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