12-letter words containing sc
- choir school — (in Britain) a school, esp a preparatory school attached to a cathedral, college, etc, offering general education to boys whose singing ability is good
- choir-screen — a partition or a screen in a church that acts as a divide between the choir and the aisles
- chronoscopes — Plural form of chronoscope.
- circumscribe — If someone's power or freedom is circumscribed, it is limited or restricted.
- circumscript — Rare. limited or confined.
- clerofascist — A cleric supporting fascism or advocating a synthesis of religion and fascism.
- coal scuttle — A coal scuttle is a container for keeping coal in.
- codiscoverer — a fellow discoverer
- cognoscitive — having the ability to know or discover: cognoscitive powers.
- colonoscopes — Plural form of colonoscope.
- color scheme — In a room or house, the color scheme is the way in which colors have been used to decorate it.
- colposcopist — an instrument that magnifies the cells of the cervix and vagina to permit direct observation and study of the living tissue.
- common scold — (in early common law) a habitually rude and brawling woman whose conduct was subject to punishment as a public nuisance.
- compact disc — Compact discs are small shiny discs that contain music or computer information. The abbreviation CD is also used.
- concrescence — a growing together of initially separate parts or organs
- concupiscent — lustful or sensual.
- condescended — Simple past tense and past participle of condescend.
- confiscating — Present participle of confiscate.
- confiscation — to seize as forfeited to the public domain; appropriate, by way of penalty, for public use.
- confiscatory — involving confiscation
- conscientize — to educate (a person) about an issue or idea
- conscientous — Misspelling of conscientious.
- conscionable — acceptable to one's conscience
- conscionably — being in conformity with one's conscience; just.
- conscripting — Present participle of conscript.
- conscription — Conscription is officially making people in a particular country join the armed forces.
- contabescent — unable to produce pollen
- convalescent — Convalescent means relating to convalescence.
- convalescing — to recover health and strength after illness; make progress toward recovery of health.
- corruscating — Present participle of corruscate.
- coscinomancy — a form of divination involving the interpretation of the movement of a sieve suspended by shears
- counterscarp — the outer side of the ditch of a fort
- couscoussier — A double-chambered steamer used to prepare couscous.
- credit score — A borrower's credit score is a number calculated by a credit bureau to express how likely they are to be able to pay back their loans.
- crepusculous — Alternative form of crepuscular.
- crescendoing — Music. a gradual, steady increase in loudness or force. a musical passage characterized by such an increase. the performance of a crescendo passage: The crescendo by the violins is too abrupt.
- crisscrossed — crossed over each other
- crisscrosses — Plural form of crisscross.
- crosschecked — Simple past tense and past participle of crosscheck.
- crosscurrent — a current in a river or sea flowing across another current
- crosscut saw — a saw for cutting timber across the grain
- crosscutting — a transverse cut or course.
- dactyloscopy — the analysis of fingerprints for the purpose of identification
- decalescence — the absorption of heat when a metal is heated through a particular temperature range, caused by a change in internal crystal structure
- decrescendos — Plural form of decrescendo.
- deescalating — Present participle of deescalate.
- delay screen — (in a cathode-ray tube) a sensitized screen with a phosphorescent coating that retains the image formed by the electron beam for an appreciable time.
- deliquescent — the act or process of deliquescing.
- deliquescing — Present participle of deliquesce.
- delitescence — the sudden disappearance of a lesion or of the signs and symptoms of a disease