12-letter words containing sec
- second sight — the faculty of seeing future events; clairvoyance.
- second teeth — the teeth which replace the milk teeth
- second world — the world's industrialized nations other than the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.
- second-class — of a secondary class or quality.
- second-guess — to use hindsight in criticizing or correcting.
- second-homer — a person who owns another house in addition to their main home, often in an area where they are not native and used as a holiday home
- second-story — of or located on the second story or floor.
- secret agent — an agent of a secret service.
- secret santa — anonymous Christmas gift exchange
- secret sauce — a secret element, strategy, procedure, etc., that accounts for or increases the chances of success: The app's secret sauce is its simple interface.
- secretagogue — a substance or situation that promotes secretion.
- sectarianism — sectarian spirit or tendencies; excessive devotion to a particular sect, especially in religion.
- sectarianize — to make sectarian.
- section boss — the boss of a section gang.
- section gang — a group of workers who take care of a section of railroad track.
- section hand — a person who works on a section gang.
- section mark — section (def 16).
- sectionalism — excessive regard for sectional or local interests; regional or local spirit, prejudice, etc.
- sectionalize — to render sectional.
- secunderabad — a city in N Andhra Pradesh, in central India, part of Hyderabad: a former British military cantonment.
- secure shell — (operating system) (ssh) A Unix shell program for logging into, and executing commands on, a remote computer. ssh is intended to replace rlogin and rsh, and provide secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network. X11 connections and arbitrary TCP/IP ports can also be forwarded over the secure channel.
- security van — an armoured van used to transport money or other valuables
- sixty-second — next after the sixty-first; being the ordinal number for 62.
- split second — a fraction of a second.
- state secret — an official secret
- stick insect — walking stick (def 2).
- subsecretary — a secretary subordinate to another secretary
- supersecrecy — extreme secrecy
- sweep-second — (on a timepiece) a second hand that is a sweep hand.
- tail section — the back or rear section of an aeroplane
- third sector — the segment of a nation's economy that is made up of neither public nor business concerns, as nonprofit health or educational institutions.
- top security — ultra secure
- trade secret — a secret process, technique, method, etc., used to advantage in a trade, business, profession, etc.
- type section — the sequence of strata referred to in establishing a stratigraphic unit, as a member or formation.
- unconsecrate — profane or base
- undesecrated — to divest of sacred or hallowed character or office.
- unpersecuted — not persecuted
- well-secured — free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
- wisecracking — a smart or facetious remark.
- zeptoseconds — Plural form of zeptosecond.