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

  • rescue party — a group of people who attempt to rescue, find or save a person or people for danger, esp a person or people who have got lost while mountain climbing
  • respite care — Respite care is short-term care that is provided for very old or very sick people so that the person who usually cares for them can have a break.
  • rose campion — a plant, Lychnis coronaria, of the pink family, having reddish purple flowers, and leaves covered with whitish down.
  • 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.
  • scattergraph — 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.
  • schiaparelli — Elsa [el-sah] /ˈɛl sɑ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1973, French fashion designer, born in Italy.
  • schopenhauer — Arthur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1788–1860, German philosopher.
  • science park — A science park is an area, usually linked to a university, where there are a lot of private companies, especially ones concerned with high technology.
  • 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.
  • scrap dealer — a person who deals in scrap
  • scraperboard — scratchboard.
  • scratch tape — a magnetic tape that is used for temporary storage, which may be erased and re-used
  • scratchplate — a plastic or metal plate attached to the front of a guitar to protect it from pick scratches
  • screen peace — (tool)   A screen saver for Microsoft Windows by Anthony Andersen. Released as charityware. It can load extension modules with filename extension ".SPX".
  • sea scorpion — scorpionfish.
  • search party — a group of persons conducting an organized search for someone or something lost or hidden.
  • 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.
  • separatrices — something that divides or separates, as the line between light and dark areas on a partially illuminated surface.
  • seraphically — of, like, or befitting a seraph.
  • 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.
  • shrimp sauce — a sauce made from shrimps
  • sitka spruce — a spruce, Picea sitchensis, of western North America, having long, silvery-white needles, grown as an ornamental.
  • sleeping car — a railroad car fitted with berths, compartments, bedrooms, or drawing rooms for passengers to sleep in.
  • soprano clef — a sign locating middle C on the bottom line of the staff.
  • space charge — a distribution of an excess of electrons or ions over a three-dimensional region, in contrast to the distribution of an electric charge over the surface of a conductor.
  • space heater — the heating of a limited area, as a room, by means of a heater (space heater) within the area.
  • space travel — spaceflight of manned vehicles.
  • space writer — a journalist or copywriter paid according to a space rate. Also called space man. Compare stringer (def 6).
  • space-filler — a short article of little or no importance written to fill space in a magazine or newspaper
  • spanish rice — rice prepared with chopped onions, tomatoes, green peppers, and sometimes diced ham, seasoned with cayenne pepper and mixed with butter.
  • spatter cone — a low, steep-sided volcanic cone built up of droplets or blobs of lava erupted from a fissure or vent.
  • spearcarrier — an extra in a theatrical or operatic production, as one of a group of soldiers or a member of a crowd
  • specbaserate — A variant of SPECrate that reports "baseline" results, using stricter run rules. See SPECrate_base_fp92, SPECrate_base_int92.
  • special area — distressed area.
  • special jury — struck jury.
  • special rule — a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.: the rules of chess.
  • special sort — a character, such as an accented letter, that is not a usual member of any font
  • special term — the sitting of a court for the trial of a special case.
  • spectatorial — a person who looks on or watches; onlooker; observer.
  • spectrograph — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
  • speculatrice — a female speculator
  • speech maker — a person who makes a formal speech
  • 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.
  • speed camera — device that detects speeding traffic
  • spermaphytic — able to produce seeds
  • spermaticide — spermicide.
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