12-letter words containing a, c, r, o, p
- 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
- sporadically — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- 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.
- 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
- superorganic — of or relating to the structure of cultural elements within society conceived as independent of and superior to the individual members of society.
- supplicatory — to pray humbly; make humble and earnest entreaty or petition.
- 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.
- tractor pull — a contest in which tractors compete to pull the heaviest load.
- transpicuous — transparent.
- tricephalous — with three heads
- trichopteran — trichopterous.
- tricorporate — having three bodies
- trophotactic — of or relating to trophotaxis
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- unrecoupable — to get back the equivalent of: to recoup one's losses by a lucky investment.
- unreproached — not reproached, criticized, or scolded
- up-and-comer — likely to succeed; bright and industrious: an up-and-coming young executive.
- vaporescence — production or formation of vapor.
- 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.
- vector space — an additive group in which addition is commutative and with which is associated a field of scalars, as the field of real numbers, such that the product of a scalar and an element of the group or a vector is defined, the product of two scalars times a vector is associative, one times a vector is the vector, and two distributive laws hold.
- 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.
- video piracy — the unauthorized or prohibited use of audio-visual works covered by copyright law, in a way that violates one of the copyright owner's exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works
- water pocket — a cavity at the foot of a cliff formed by the falling action of an intermittent stream.
- wild apricot — apricot (def 4).
- wrap account — a personally managed investment account where charges are levied on the basis of the account's total assets.