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12-letter words containing s, u, i, c, d, e

  • field circus — A derogatory pun on "field service". The field service organisation of any hardware manufacturer, but especially DEC. There is an entire genre of jokes about DEC field circus engineers: Q: How can you recognise a DEC field circus engineer with a flat tire? A: He's changing one tire at a time to see which one is flat. Q: How can you recognise a DEC field circus engineer who is out of gas? A: He's changing one tire at a time to see which one is flat. See Easter egging for additional insight on these jokes. There is also the "Field Circus Cheer" (from the plan file for DEC on MIT-AI): Maynard! Maynard! Don't mess with us! We're mean and we're tough! If you get us confused We'll screw up your stuff. (DEC's service HQ is located in Maynard, Massachusetts).
  • fused silica — glass made entirely from silica, having a very low rate of thermal expansion.
  • gesticulated — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
  • inadequacies — Plural form of inadequacy.
  • incapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of incapsulate.
  • indecorously — not decorous; violating generally accepted standards of good taste or propriety; unseemly.
  • indulgencies — indulgence.
  • judicatories — Plural form of judicatory.
  • jurisdictive — Jurisdictional.
  • masculinized — Simple past tense and past participle of masculinize.
  • media circus — excessive news coverage
  • mendaciously — In a lying or deceitful manner.
  • misconducted — Simple past tense and past participle of misconduct.
  • misconstrued — Simple past tense and past participle of misconstrue.
  • miseducation — to educate improperly.
  • molluscicide — A substance that kills molluscs.
  • moustachioed — Alternative spelling of moustachio\u2019d.
  • mucopeptides — Plural form of mucopeptide.
  • musical ride — a display by riders on horseback of manoeuvres to music, esp by members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
  • 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
  • orchidaceous — belonging to the plant family Orchidaceae.
  • outdistanced — Simple past tense and past participle of outdistance.
  • outdistances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outdistance.
  • overdiscount — to discount excessively
  • picture desk — the department at a magazine or newspaper publisher, that deals with photographs for the paper or magazine
  • picture disc — a phonograph record with a picture on the vinyl.
  • pre-discount — to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.): All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at two percent.
  • prediscourse — communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.
  • promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
  • pseudocyesis — false pregnancy.
  • quadrisected — Simple past tense and past participle of quadrisect.
  • quickstepped — Simple past tense and past participle of quickstep.
  • quindecagons — Plural form of quindecagon.
  • race suicide — the extinction of a racial or ethnic population that tends to result when, through the unwillingness or forbearance of its members to have children, the birthrate falls below the death rate.
  • radio source — a cosmic object or phenomenon, as a galaxy, pulsar, quasar, or the remnant of a supernova or of a galactic collision, that emits radio waves.
  • reductionism — the theory that every complex phenomenon, especially in biology or psychology, can be explained by analyzing the simplest, most basic physical mechanisms that are in operation during the phenomenon.
  • reductionist — the theory that every complex phenomenon, especially in biology or psychology, can be explained by analyzing the simplest, most basic physical mechanisms that are in operation during the phenomenon.
  • res judicata — a thing adjudicated; a case that has been decided.
  • rescheduling — the act of changing the time, date, or schedule of
  • sapindaceous — belonging to the Sapindaceae, the soapberry family of plants.
  • self-induced — induced by oneself or itself.
  • semipellucid — somewhat pellucid; partially translucent or transparent
  • 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.
  • south euclid — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
  • sub-mediocre — of only ordinary or moderate quality; neither good nor bad; barely adequate: The car gets only mediocre mileage, but it's fun to drive. Synonyms: undistinguished, commonplace, pedestrian, everyday; run-of-the-mill. Antonyms: extraordinary, superior, uncommon, incomparable.
  • subcivilized — not quite civilized
  • subdiaconate — the office or dignity of a subdeacon.
  • subduplicate — of the square root of ratios
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