12-letter words containing a, c, r, o, p, l
- reproachable — to find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame; censure.
- reproachless — irreproachable.
- retrophiliac — someone who has a strong liking for things from the past
- rhopaloceral — of or relating to creatures from the Rhopalocera division of animals, which includes all butterflies, distinguished from moths on account of their club-shaped antennae
- rocker panel — body paneling below the passenger compartment of a vehicle.
- rocket plane — aircraft that launches rockets
- 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.
- school prawn — a common olive-green prawn, Metapenaeus macleayi
- 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.
- scrophularia — a member of a genus of flowering plants which have a square stem and are known as figworts
- semitropical — subtropical.
- signal corps — a branch of the army responsible for military communications, meteorological studies, and related work.
- sophomorical — characteristic of a sophomore
- soprano clef — a sign locating middle C on the bottom line of the staff.
- 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.
- spermatocele — a swelling of the testicle
- spirochaetal — resulting from spirochaetes
- sporadically — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- stylographic — of or relating to a stylograph.
- sub-tropical — Sub-tropical places have a climate that is warm and wet, and are often near tropical regions.
- subopercular — of or relating to the suboperculum
- supplicatory — to pray humbly; make humble and earnest entreaty or petition.
- tractor pull — a contest in which tractors compete to pull the heaviest load.
- tricephalous — with three heads
- tropicalised — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- tropicalized — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- trypanocidal — (of a drug, agent, activity, etc) effective in killing trypanosomes
- turbo pascal — (language, product) Borland International's Pascal. Perhaps the first integrated development environment for MS-DOS. Versions 1.0-3.0: standard Pascal with a few extensions Versions 4.0 (1987) and 5.0: separate compilation. Version 5.5: object-oriented. Version 6.0: Turbo Vision OOP library.
- ultracompact — extremely compact, esp of technology that is much smaller than a standard model
- 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.
- 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.
- unrecoupable — to get back the equivalent of: to recoup one's losses by a lucky investment.
- variocoupler — a transformer having coils with a self-impedance that is essentially constant but a mutual impedance that can be varied by moving one coil with respect to the other.
- velociraptor — a small carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Velociraptor , from the late Cretaceous period, capable of leaping, and growing to a length of about 6 feet (2 meters), having feathers, a flat snout, short forelimbs with large handlike talons, and a large sickle-shaped claw on each foot.
- wild apricot — apricot (def 4).