12-Letter Words Containing: S,C,O,R,I,O,U,S

• An artistic technique developed during the Renaissance, referring to the use of exaggerated light contrasts in order to create the illusion of volume.

• A monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color.

• The use of blocks of wood of different colors in a woodcut.

• A photographic technique in which one side of, for example, a face is well lit and the other is in shadow.

• anxious embarrassment

• a temperament that is perturbed and lacking in composure

• The sum of these memories

• Prior to consciousness.

• (of memories) that one is not aware of, but which can be recalled through conscious effort

• the institution and conduct of legal proceedings against a defendant for criminal behavior

• the lawyers acting for the state to put the case against the defendant

• the continuance of something begun with a view to its completion

• any structure that makes progress difficult

• the physical condition of blocking or filling a passage with an obstruction

• something immaterial that stands in the way and must be circumvented or surmounted

• the act of obstructing

• getting in someone's way

• the occurrence of a small flash or spark

• a sudden or striking display of brilliance

• The state of being obscured.

• A unit of measurement used in particular for smoke detectors which respond to absorption of light by smoke, in percent absorption per unit length, e.g. % obs/ft, % obs/m.