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12-letter words containing a, s, l, o, p, e

  • professorial — a teacher of the highest academic rank in a college or university, who has been awarded the title Professor in a particular branch of learning; a full professor: a professor of Spanish literature.
  • proper class — a class which cannot itself be a member of other classes
  • proper psalm — a psalm used only on a particular day or feast
  • proscribable — to denounce or condemn (a thing) as dangerous or harmful; prohibit.
  • prosectorial — characteristic of a prosector
  • prosecutable — Law. to institute legal proceedings against (a person). to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process. to conduct criminal proceedings in court against.
  • protest flag — a flag hoisted by a racing yacht to advise the judges of a violation of the rules by another yacht.
  • provableness — the quality of being provable
  • pseudoallele — a false allele
  • pseudocereal — any of several plants, as buckwheat and quinoa, that produce fruits and seeds used as flour but are not of the grass family.
  • pseudopodial — a temporary protrusion of the protoplasm, as of certain protozoans, usually serving as an organ of locomotion or prehension.
  • pseudoscalar — a scalar quantity that changes sign when the sense of the orientation of the coordinate system is changed.
  • psychobabble — writing or talk using jargon from psychiatry or psychotherapy without particular accuracy or relevance.
  • psychosexual — of or relating to the relationship of psychological and sexual phenomena.
  • pyrosulphate — any salt of pyrosulphuric acid
  • rapeseed oil — a brownish-yellow oil obtained by expression from rapeseed and used chiefly as a lubricant, an illuminant, and in the manufacture of rubber substitutes.
  • relationship — a connection, association, or involvement.
  • release copy — an article, notice, announcement, or the like, issued in advance for publication or broadcast, bearing a release date.
  • reproachless — irreproachable.
  • responsorial — of or relating to response; responsive
  • roselle park — a borough in NE New Jersey.
  • saddle point — a point at which a function of two variables has partial derivatives equal to zero but at which the function has neither a maximum nor a minimum value.
  • sales report — a periodical report made by a salesperson to a manager giving details of amounts sold, existing and new accounts, etc
  • saloonkeeper — a person who operates a saloon (sense 3)
  • sample point — a possible result of an experiment, represented as a point.
  • sankt pölten — a city in NE Austria, the capital of Lower Austria state. Pop: 49 121 (2001)
  • saw palmetto — a shrublike palmetto, Serenoa repens, of the palm family, native to the southern U.S., having green or blue leafstalks set with spiny teeth.
  • scapegallows — a criminal who escapes death by hanging or the gallows
  • 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.
  • scolopaceous — (of birds or other animals) like a snipe, a shore bird with a straight beak
  • 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.
  • selenography — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
  • semi-popular — regarded with favor, approval, or affection by people in general: a popular preacher.
  • semitropical — subtropical.
  • sexual spore — a spore formed after the fusion of gametes and an asexual spore is the result of asexual reproduction
  • shore patrol — (often initial capital letters) members of an organization in the U.S. Navy having police duties similar to those performed by military police. Abbreviation: SP.
  • shoulder pad — clothing: insert in shoulder
  • skeleton map — a map showing only basic details of a land, place, etc
  • slash pocket — a pocket set into a garment, especially below the waistline, to which easy access is provided by an exterior, vertical or diagonal slit.
  • sleep apnoea — the temporary cessation of breathing during sleep, which in some cases is due to obstruction of the upper airway by enlarged tonsils, uvula, etc, causing the sufferer to snore loudly and fight for breath
  • sleep around — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
  • sloped roman — a roman (vertical) typeface, usually sans serif, i.e. without the small, decorative, terminal strokes with which some typefaces are designed. The typeface is made to slope (usually to the right), but not generally to the same degree as a true italic typeface
  • snow leopard — a long-haired, leopardlike feline, Panthera (Uncia) uncia, of mountain ranges of central Asia, having a relatively small head and a thick, creamy-gray coat with rosette spots: an endangered species.
  • solar plexus — Also called celiac plexus. Anatomy. a network of nerves situated at the upper part of the abdomen, behind the stomach and in front of the aorta.
  • somatopleure — the double layer formed by the association of the upper layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the overlying ectoderm, functioning in the formation of the body wall and amnion.
  • soprano clef — a sign locating middle C on the bottom line of the staff.
  • south platte — a river flowing NE from central Colorado to the Platte River in W Nebraska. 424 miles (683 km) long.
  • special sort — a character, such as an accented letter, that is not a usual member of any font
  • speciational — relating to speciation
  • spectatorial — a person who looks on or watches; onlooker; observer.
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