12-letter words containing sc
- hysteroscopy — (medicine) The examination of the uterus using a hysteroscope.
- ibm discount — A price increase. Outside IBM, this derives from the common perception that IBM products are generally overpriced (see clone); inside, it is said to spring from a belief that large numbers of IBM employees living in an area cause prices to rise.
- incalescence — The state of being incalescent, or growing warm.
- incandescent — (of light) produced by incandescence.
- indehiscence — not dehiscent; not opening at maturity.
- indiscipline — lack of discipline or control: a campus problem of student indiscipline.
- indiscreetly — not discreet; lacking prudence, good judgment, or circumspection: an indiscreet remark.
- indiscretion — lack of discretion; imprudence.
- inescutcheon — A small shield placed within a larger one.
- inflorescent — Of, pertaining to or causing inflorescence.
- ingravescent — (esp of a disease) becoming more severe
- inosculating — Present participle of inosculate.
- inosculation — The junction or connection of vessels, channels, or passages, so that their contents pass from one to the other; union by mouths or ducts; intercommunication.
- inscriptions — Plural form of inscription.
- inscrutables — Plural form of inscrutable.
- insusceptive — insusceptible
- interscience — a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws: the mathematical sciences.
- intumescence — a swelling up, as with congestion.
- intussuscept — to take within, as one part of the intestine into an adjacent part; invaginate.
- irascibility — easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
- iridescently — In an iridescent manner.
- ischiorectal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the region between the rectum and the ischial tuberosity.
- isoteniscope — an instrument used to measure vapour pressure
- junk science — faulty scientific information or research, especially when used to advance special interests.
- jurisconsult — Roman and Civil Law. a person authorized to give legal advice.
- juvenescence — being or becoming youthful; young.
- kaleidoscope — an optical instrument in which bits of glass, held loosely at the end of a rotating tube, are shown in continually changing symmetrical forms by reflection in two or more mirrors set at angles to each other.
- kelvin scale — William Thomson, 1st Baron, 1824–1907, English physicist and mathematician.
- king's scout — (in Great Britain) a boy scout who has achieved the highest level of scouting: similar to the U.S. eagle scout.
- kirschwasser — a fragrant, colorless, unaged brandy distilled from a fermented mash of cherries, produced especially in Germany, Switzerland, and Alsace, France.
- kletterschuh — a lightweight climbing boot with a canvas or suede upper and Vibram (originally felt or cord) sole
- landscapists — Plural form of landscapist.
- laparoscopes — Plural form of laparoscope.
- laparoscopic — a flexible fiberoptic instrument, passed through a small incision in the abdominal wall and equipped with biopsy forceps, an obturator, scissors or the like, with which to examine the abdominal cavity or perform minor surgery.
- lapidescence — a lapidescent quality or condition
- laryngoscope — a rigid or flexible endoscope passed through the mouth and equipped with a source of light and magnification, for examining and performing local diagnostic and surgical procedures on the larynx.
- laryngoscopy — an examination by means of a laryngoscope.
- lascaux cave — a cave in Lascaux, France, discovered in 1940 and containing exceptionally fine Paleolithic wall paintings and engravings thought to date to Magdalenian times (c13,000–8500 b.c.).
- lasciviously — inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd: a lascivious, girl-chasing old man.
- latin school — a secondary school emphasizing instruction in Latin and Greek.
- lesser scaup — a diving duck, Aythya marila, of Europe and America, having a black-and-white plumage in the male
- life science — any science that deals with living organisms, their life processes, and their interrelationships, as biology, medicine, or ecology.
- lower school — a school that is preparatory to one on a more advanced level.
- luminescence — the emission of light not caused by incandescence and occurring at a temperature below that of incandescent bodies.
- lusciousness — Property of being luscious.
- manuscriptal — (obsolete) Of or pertaining to manuscript.
- masculinized — Simple past tense and past participle of masculinize.
- meniscectomy — the surgical excision of a meniscus, as of the knee joint.
- microscopics — Any behaviour or characteristic observable at a microscopic scale.
- microscopies — Plural form of microscopy.