12-letter words containing s, u, i, c
- disc shutter — a shutter in a movie camera or projector that covers the gap between separate frames
- discomedusan — a member of the Discomedusae, an order of jellyfish with flattened bodies
- discomfiture — Archaic. defeat in battle; rout.
- discommunity — a lack of community
- discomposure — the state of being discomposed; disorder; agitation; perturbation.
- discongruity — incongruity.
- discontinued — to put an end to; stop; terminate: to discontinue nuclear testing.
- discontinues — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discontinue.
- discotheques — Plural form of discotheque.
- discountable — That can be discounted (in all senses).
- discouraging — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- discourteous — not courteous; impolite; uncivil; rude: a discourteous salesman.
- discoverture — the state of being discovert; freedom from coverture.
- disculpating — Present participle of disculpate.
- discursively — In a discursive manner.
- discussional — an act or instance of discussing; consideration or examination by argument, comment, etc., especially to explore solutions; informal debate.
- disencumbers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disencumber.
- disgracefull — Archaic form of disgraceful.
- disjunctions — Plural form of disjunction.
- disjunctives — Plural form of disjunctive.
- disjunctures — Plural form of disjuncture.
- disturbances — Plural form of disturbance.
- dockominiums — Plural form of dockominium.
- drop biscuit — a biscuit made by dropping baking powder biscuit dough from a spoon onto a pan for baking.
- dryopithecus — an extinct genus of generalized hominoids that lived in Europe and Africa during the Miocene Epoch and whose members are characterized by small molars and incisors.
- duck-shoving — the evasion of responsibility by someone
- duncan smith — (George) Iain. born 1954, British politician; leader of the Conservative Party (2001–03); secretary of state for work and pensions (2010–2016)
- duplications — Plural form of duplication.
- duty chemist — a dispensing chemist's that is open to the public for a specific period when other chemists are closed
- dysfluencies — disfluency.
- dysfunctions — Plural form of dysfunction.
- ebullioscopy — (physics) the measurement of the boiling point of liquids.
- echinococcus — any of a number of tapeworms of the genus Echinococcus whose larvae are parasitic in humans and domestic animals.
- educationese — the jargon associated with the field of education.
- educationist — a specialist in the theory and methods of education.
- ejaculations — Plural form of ejaculation.
- elocutionist — Someone who practices or teaches elocution.
- elucidations — Plural form of elucidation.
- emasculating — Present participle of emasculate.
- emasculation — The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.
- encrustation — The action of encrusting or state of being encrusted.
- enthusiastic — Having or showing intense and eager enjoyment, interest, or approval.
- epicureanism — An ancient school of philosophy founded in Athens by Epicurus. The school rejected determinism and advocated hedonism (pleasure as the highest good), but of a restrained kind: mental pleasure was regarded more highly than physical, and the ultimate pleasure was held to be freedom from anxiety and mental pain, esp. that arising from needless fear of death and of the gods.
- equidistance — (uncountable) Equal distance.
- equinoctials — Plural form of equinoctial.
- eulogistical — Alternative form of eulogistic.
- eunuchoidism — A syndrome in males with a lack of sex characteristics due to lack of proper male sex hormones.
- eurocentrism — Alternative capitalization of Eurocentrism.
- exclusionary — restrictive or elitist
- exclusionism — The quality of being exclusionist.