12-letter words containing t, r, i, a, c, o
- rambunctious — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- ramification — the act or process of ramifying.
- ratification — the act of ratifying; confirmation; sanction.
- rattail comb — a comb for the hair having a narrow, pointed handle used in styling the hair.
- reactivation — to render active again; revive.
- reallocation — the act of allocating; apportionment.
- recategorize — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- reciprocated — to give, feel, etc., in return.
- reciprocates — to give, feel, etc., in return.
- reciprocator — to give, feel, etc., in return.
- recoronation — the act or ceremony of crowning a king, queen, or other sovereign.
- recreational — of or relating to recreation: recreational facilities in the park.
- rectirostral — (of a bird) having a straight bill.
- recuperation — to recover from sickness or exhaustion; regain health or strength.
- redecoration — something used for decorating; adornment; embellishment: The gymnasium was adorned with posters and crepe-paper decorations for the dance.
- rededication — the act of dedicating.
- renunciation — an act or instance of relinquishing, abandoning, repudiating, or sacrificing something, as a right, title, person, or ambition: the king's renunciation of the throne.
- renunciatory — an act or instance of relinquishing, abandoning, repudiating, or sacrificing something, as a right, title, person, or ambition: the king's renunciation of the throne.
- reoccupation — a person's usual or principal work or business, especially as a means of earning a living; vocation: Her occupation was dentistry.
- resuscitator — a person or thing that resuscitates.
- reticulation — a reticulated formation, arrangement, or appearance; network.
- retinotectal — of or relating to the retina and the tectum
- retrophiliac — someone who has a strong liking for things from the past
- rhetorically — used for, belonging to, or concerned with mere style or effect.
- road traffic — traffic on the road
- romantically — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
- romanticized — interpreted according to romantic precepts
- sacroiliitis — the inflammation of the sacroiliac joint
- sacrosciatic — of the sacrum and the ischium
- sarcomatosis — the condition in which a sarcoma has become disseminated throughout the body.
- satisfactory — giving or affording satisfaction; fulfilling all demands or requirements: a satisfactory solution.
- satyromaniac — a lascivious man; lecher.
- scarificator — a person who scarifies.
- scarlatinoid — resembling scarlatina or its eruptions.
- scatteration — the act of scattering.
- scintillator — a phosphor capable of producing scintillations.
- scopes trial — John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
- scotch grain — a coarse, pebble-grained finish given to heavy leather, esp. for men's shoes
- scrobiculate — furrowed or pitted.
- scsi adaptor — (hardware) (Or "host adaptor") A device that communicates between a computer and its SCSI peripherals. The SCSI adaptor is usually assigned SCSI ID 7. It is often a separate card that is connected to the computer's bus (e.g. PCI, ISA, PCMCIA) though increasinly, SCSI adaptors are built in to the motherboard. Apart from being cheaper, busses like PCI are too slow to keep up with the newer SCSI standards like Ultra SCSI and Ultra-Wide SCSI. There are several varieties of SCSI (and their connectors) and an adaptor will not support them all. The performance of SCSI devices is limited by the speed of the SCSI adaptor and its connection to the computer. An adaptor that plugs into a parallel port is unlikely to be as fast as one incorporated into a motherboard. Fast adaptors use DMA or bus mastering. Some SCSI adaptors include a BIOS to allow PCs to boot from a SCSI hard disk, if their own BIOS supports it. Note that it is not a "SCSI controller" - it does not control the devices, and "SCSI interface" is redundant - the "I" of "SCSI" stands for "interface".
- secobarbital — a white, odorless, slightly bitter powder, C 1 2 H 1 8 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative and hypnotic.
- section mark — section (def 16).
- semitropical — subtropical.
- seroreaction — any reaction occurring in serum.
- short-acting — (of a drug) quickly effective, but requiring regularly repeated doses for long-term treatment, being rapidly absorbed, distributed in the body, and excreted
- significator — a planet deemed significant in astrology
- silk factory — plant where silk fabric is produced
- smart cookie — intelligent or sharp-witted person
- socratically — of or relating to Socrates or his philosophy, followers, etc., or to the Socratic method.
- solidaristic — relating to solidarism