12-letter words containing sc
- obfuscations — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- oblivescence — the process of forgetting.
- obliviscence — the condition or fact of failing to remember or having failed to remember or of being absent-minded
- obmutescence — persistent silence
- obscurantism — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
- obscurantist — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
- obscurations — Plural form of obscuration.
- obsolescence — the state, process, or condition of being or becoming obsolete.
- offscourings — Often, offscourings. something scoured off; filth; refuse.
- omnisciences — Plural form of omniscience.
- omnisciently — having complete or unlimited knowledge, awareness, or understanding; perceiving all things.
- omphaloscopy — Introversion.
- on-the-scene — being at the very place of occurrence: an on-the-scene newscast.
- opalescently — In an opalescent manner.
- optical disc — Also, optical disc. Also called laser disk. a grooveless disk on which digital data, as text, music, or pictures, is stored as tiny pits in the surface and is read or replayed by a laser beam scanning the surface.
- organ screen — an ornamental screen closing off an organ chamber in a church.
- ornithoscopy — divination from the observation of birds
- oscillations — Plural form of oscillation.
- oscillograms — Plural form of oscillogram.
- oscillograph — a device for recording the wave-forms of changing currents, voltages, or any other quantity that can be translated into electric energy, as sound waves.
- oscillometer — an instrument for measuring oscillations, especially those of the arterial pulse.
- oscillometry — an instrument for measuring oscillations, especially those of the arterial pulse.
- oscilloscope — a device that gives a visual graph of amplitude versus time of a measured signal, as voltage or current.
- osco-umbrian — a group of languages, usually classified as Italic, that contains Oscan and Umbrian.
- otosclerosis — formation of new bone about the stapes or cochlea, resulting in hearing loss.
- out of scale — If something is out of scale with the things near it, it is too big or too small in relation to them.
- overdiscount — to discount excessively
- overscutched — overworked; worn out
- pan and scan — a technique for changing the aspect ratio of a wide-screen film, usually by selecting the significant section of each film frame and cropping the sides, so that it can be transmitted in 4:3 aspect ratio.
- pan scrubber — a rough sponge, often made of steel wool, used for scrubbing saucepans, frying pans, etc
- parascending — parasailing
- pascal's law — the law that an external pressure applied to a fluid in a closed vessel is uniformly transmitted throughout the fluid.
- pascal-linda — Ian Flockhart, U Edinburgh, 1991. Under development.
- pasch flower — pasqueflower
- paschal lamb — Jewish History. a lamb slaughtered and eaten on the eve of the first day of Passover. Ex. 12:3–11.
- pax vobiscum — peace be with you
- pearlescence — a pearly lustre or sheen
- perivisceral — surrounding or situated about the viscera.
- pet scanning — the action or process of using a PET scanner to obtain an image.
- phosphoresce — to be luminous without sensible heat, as phosphorus.
- picture disc — a phonograph record with a picture on the vinyl.
- pisciculture — the breeding, rearing, and transplantation of fish by artificial means.
- plaid screen — [XEROX PARC] A "special effect" that occurs when certain kinds of memory smashes overwrite the control blocks or image memory of a bit-mapped display. The term "salt and pepper" may refer to a different pattern of similar origin. Though the term as coined at PARC refers to the result of an error, some of the X demos induce plaid-screen effects deliberately as a display hack.
- plattdeutsch — the Low German vernacular dialects spoken in northern Germany.
- polariscopic — relating to a polariscope
- ponzi scheme — a swindle in which a quick return, made up of money from new investors, on an initial investment lures the victim into much bigger risks.
- post-fascist — of or relating to various right-wing political parties in Europe which espouse a modified form of fascism and which take part in constitutional politics
- postischemic — occurring after or due to ischaemia
- praxinoscope — a toy in which a sequence of images, depicted on the inner surface of a cylinder and reflected in a series of mirrors, gives the illusion of motion as the cylinder rotates
- pre-discount — to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.): All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at two percent.