12-letter words that end in en
- 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.
- plain-spoken — candid; frank; blunt.
- play chicken — to engage in a test of courage in which, typically, two vehicles are driven directly toward one another in order to see which driver will swerve away first
- power-driven — powered by an electric motor
- quote-driven — denoting an electronic market system, esp for stock exchanges, in which prices are determined by quotations made by market makers or dealers
- radar screen — a screen on equipment used in radar, a method for detecting the position and velocity of a distant object
- railroad pen — a ruling pen for drawing two parallel lines.
- record token — a gift voucher that can be used as payment for records of a specified value
- restrengthen — to strengthen again or return to strength
- rough-spoken — coarse or vulgar in speech.
- sankt gallen — German name of St. Gallen.
- sankt pölten — a city in NE Austria, the capital of Lower Austria state. Pop: 49 121 (2001)
- schaffhausen — a canton in N Switzerland. 100 sq. mi. (259 sq. km).
- scheveningen — a town in the W Netherlands, near The Hague: seaside resort.
- schmalkalden — a town in central Germany: a league to defend Protestantism formed here 1531.
- self-antigen — autoantigen.
- seven-eleven — shiner perch.
- shen congwen — 1902–1988, Chinese author.
- short-spoken — speaking in a short, brief, or curt manner.
- sight screen — a white screen set in line with the wicket as an aid to the batsman in seeing the ball when it is bowled.
- sight unseen — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
- silicon glen — a collective term for the industries in Scotland associated with information technology, esp those concentrated in the central conurbation between Glasgow and Edinburgh
- sint maarten — St. Martin.
- small screen — the medium of television.
- smoke screen — a mass of dense smoke produced to conceal an area, vessel, or plane from the enemy.
- smoke-screen — a mass of dense smoke produced to conceal an area, vessel, or plane from the enemy.
- snake-bitten — bitten by a snake.
- soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
- spiegeleisen — a lustrous, crystalline pig iron containing a large amount of manganese, sometimes 15 percent or more, used in making steel.
- split screen — Also called composite shot. Movies, Television. a type of process photography in which two or more shots are juxtaposed and projected simultaneously on the screen.
- split-screen — Split-screen is used to describe the technique in making films and television programmes in which two different pieces of film are shown at the same time.
- steam-driven — powered by steam
- stone marten — a marten, Mustela foina, of Europe and Asia, having a white mark on the throat and breast.
- streptosolen — a type of South American shrub grown for ornamental purposes, with orange trumpet-shaped flowers
- sweet marten — the European pine marten, Martes martes : trapped for its fur and now greatly reduced in number.
- theory-laden — (of an expression) capable of being understood only within the context of a specific theory, as for example superego, which requires the apparatus of Freudian theory in explanation
- thirty-seven — a cardinal number, 30 plus 7.
- to fall open — If something falls open, it opens accidentally.
- toaster oven — an electrical appliance that functions as both an oven and a toaster and is small enough to fit on a kitchen counter or table.
- touch screen — a touch-sensitive display screen on a computer or other electronic device: touching different portions of the screen with a finger or stylus will cause the device to take actions determined by a computer program.
- touch-screen — using touch-sensitive screen
- trojan women — a tragedy (415 b.c.) by Euripides.
- twenty-seven — a cardinal number, 20 plus 7.
- ubermenschen — superman (def 2).
- underwritten — past participle of underwrite.
- urobilinogen — a colourless substance produced by bacterial degradation of the bile pigment bilirubin in the intestine and which produces urobilin when oxidized
- video screen — screen (def 5).
- virgin queen — Queen Elizabeth I of England.
- warehousemen — Irregular plural form of warehouseman.
- water-harden — to quench (steel) in water.