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12-letter words containing a, c, e, p, r, o

  • rose campion — a plant, Lychnis coronaria, of the pink family, having reddish purple flowers, and leaves covered with whitish down.
  • router patch — a plywood panel patch with parallel sides and rounded ends.
  • scatter plot — a graphic representation of bivariate data as a set of points in the plane that have Cartesian coordinates equal to corresponding values of the two variates.
  • scenographic — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
  • schopenhauer — Arthur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1788–1860, German philosopher.
  • scopes trial — John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
  • scraperboard — scratchboard.
  • sea scorpion — scorpionfish.
  • season creep — the gradual changing in the length of the seasons, as demonstrated by earlier flowering of plants, etc, thought by many to be caused by climate change
  • semitropical — subtropical.
  • shadow price — the calculated price of a good or service for which no market price exists
  • shamrock-pea — a trailing plant, Parochetus communis, of the legume family, native to Asia and east Africa, having shamrocklike leaves with a brown crescent at the base and pea-shaped, pink and blue flowers.
  • sharecropper — a tenant farmer who pays as rent a share of the crop.
  • soprano clef — a sign locating middle C on the bottom line of the staff.
  • spatter cone — a low, steep-sided volcanic cone built up of droplets or blobs of lava erupted from a fissure or vent.
  • special sort — a character, such as an accented letter, that is not a usual member of any font
  • spectatorial — a person who looks on or watches; onlooker; observer.
  • spectrograph — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
  • speech organ — any part of the body, as the tongue, velum, diaphragm, or lungs, that participates, actively or passively, voluntarily or involuntarily, in the production of the sounds of speech.
  • spermatocele — a swelling of the testicle
  • spermatocide — spermicide.
  • spermatocyte — a male germ cell (primary spermatocyte) that gives rise by meiosis to a pair of haploid cells (secondary spermatocytes) that give rise in turn to spermatids.
  • spirochaetal — resulting from spirochaetes
  • sport jacket — A sport jacket is the same as a sport coat.
  • sportscaster — A sportscaster is a radio or television broadcaster who describes or comments on sporting events.
  • stegocarpous — (of a moss) belonging to the division Stegocarpi, having an operculate capsule
  • stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
  • stereoptican — a projector usually consisting of two complete lanterns arranged so that one picture appears to dissolve while the next is forming.
  • subopercular — of or relating to the suboperculum
  • superorganic — of or relating to the structure of cultural elements within society conceived as independent of and superior to the individual members of society.
  • technography — the description and study of the arts and sciences in their geographical and ethnic distribution and historical development.
  • tetramorphic — (in art) of or related to a composite representation of the four evangelists' symbols
  • theanthropic — of or relating to both God or a god and human beings; both divine and human.
  • thoracoscope — an instrument used for examining the pleural cavity
  • tracheophyte — any plant of the former division Tracheophyta, comprising all the vascular plants.
  • tracheoscopy — examination of the interior of the trachea, as with a laryngoscope.
  • tricephalous — with three heads
  • trichopteran — trichopterous.
  • tricorporate — having three bodies
  • tropicalised — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
  • tropicalized — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
  • troposcatter — the scattering or extended propagation of radio signals using the local irregularities in the Earth's troposphere
  • unapproached — not approached; not able to be approached or neared
  • unchaperoned — not chaperoned; not accompanied by a chaperone
  • uncomparable — capable of being compared; having features in common with something else to permit or suggest comparison: He considered the Roman and British empires to be comparable.
  • unimportance — a lack of importance
  • unprocedural — not procedural, not following proper procedures
  • unproclaimed — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
  • unprocurable — obtainable.
  • unreciprocal — given or felt by each toward the other; mutual: reciprocal respect.
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