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12-letter words containing c, o, p, r, t

  • pterocarpous — having winged fruit.
  • pteroic acid — a crystalline acid found in spinach
  • puck control — an offensive strategy to maintain control of the puck to prevent the other team from having scoring opportunities.
  • puerto rican — an island in the central West Indies: a commonwealth associated with the U.S. 3435 sq. mi. (8895 sq. km). Capital: San Juan. Abbreviation: P.R., PR.
  • puncturation — the act of puncturing
  • punditocracy — influential media pundits collectively.
  • purification — to make pure; free from anything that debases, pollutes, adulterates, or contaminates: to purify metals.
  • putrefaction — the act or process of putrefying; the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria and fungi that results in obnoxiously odorous products; rotting.
  • pyrocatechol — catechol.
  • pyroelectric — pertaining to, subject to, or manifesting pyroelectricity.
  • pyrogenicity — the characteristic of causing fever
  • pyrognostics — the characteristics of a mineral, such as fusibility and flame coloration, that are revealed by the application of heat
  • pyromagnetic — (formerly) thermomagnetic (def 1).
  • pyrotechnics — the art of making fireworks.
  • pyrotechnist — a person skilled in pyrotechnics, especially in the manufacture or use of fireworks.
  • radiator cap — a cap in the opening of a device for cooling an internal-combustion engine, through which coolant liquid can be added
  • receipt book — book containing receipt slips
  • receptionism — the doctrine that in the communion service the communicant receives the body and blood of Christ but that the bread and wine are not transubstantiated.
  • receptionist — a person employed to receive and assist callers, clients, etc., as in an office.
  • reciprocated — to give, feel, etc., in return.
  • reciprocates — to give, feel, etc., in return.
  • reciprocator — to give, feel, etc., in return.
  • recompensate — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
  • reconception — the act of conceiving; the state of being conceived.
  • recuperation — to recover from sickness or exhaustion; regain health or strength.
  • recuperatory — of or relating to recovery or recuperation
  • reinspection — the act or process of reinspecting
  • reoccupation — a person's usual or principal work or business, especially as a means of earning a living; vocation: Her occupation was dentistry.
  • reproduction — the act or process of reproducing.
  • reproductive — serving to reproduce.
  • resectoscope — a thin, hollow, flexible surgical instrument inserted through the urethra or vagina for use in the biopsy of tissue or the removal of lesions from the prostate gland, bladder, or uterus
  • retrophiliac — someone who has a strong liking for things from the past
  • rhamphotheca — the horny covering of a bird's bill.
  • rheoreceptor — a receptor of fishes and aquatic amphibians stimulated by water currents.
  • rocket plane — aircraft that launches rockets
  • rostropovich — Mstislav (Leopoldovich) [mis-tuh-slahv lee-uh-pohl-duh-vich;; Russian mstyi-slahf lyi-uh-pawl-duh-vyich] /ˈmɪs təˌslɑv ˌli əˈpoʊl də vɪtʃ;; Russian mstyɪˈslɑf lyɪ əˈpɔl də vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1927–2007, Soviet cellist and conductor (husband of Galina Vishnevskaya).
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • scratchproof — resistant to scratches.
  • scrupulosity — having scruples, or moral or ethical standards; having or showing a strict regard for what one considers right; principled: scrupulous about defending human rights.
  • scsi adaptor — (hardware)   (Or "host adaptor") A device that communicates between a computer and its SCSI peripherals. The SCSI adaptor is usually assigned SCSI ID 7. It is often a separate card that is connected to the computer's bus (e.g. PCI, ISA, PCMCIA) though increasinly, SCSI adaptors are built in to the motherboard. Apart from being cheaper, busses like PCI are too slow to keep up with the newer SCSI standards like Ultra SCSI and Ultra-Wide SCSI. There are several varieties of SCSI (and their connectors) and an adaptor will not support them all. The performance of SCSI devices is limited by the speed of the SCSI adaptor and its connection to the computer. An adaptor that plugs into a parallel port is unlikely to be as fast as one incorporated into a motherboard. Fast adaptors use DMA or bus mastering. Some SCSI adaptors include a BIOS to allow PCs to boot from a SCSI hard disk, if their own BIOS supports it. Note that it is not a "SCSI controller" - it does not control the devices, and "SCSI interface" is redundant - the "I" of "SCSI" stands for "interface".
  • semitropical — subtropical.
  • shock troops — soldiers trained to attack
  • short splice — a splice used when an increased thickness of the united rope is not objectionable, made by unlaying the rope ends a certain distance, uniting them so that their strands overlap, then tucking each alternately over and under others several times.
  • soccer pitch — the field of play used in soccer
  • sparcstation — (computer)   A family of workstations from Sun Microsystems based on the SPARC architecture. Models include the SPARCStation 1, 1+, SLC, SPARCStation ELC, IPX, SPARCStation 5, SPARCStation 10 and SPARCStation 20.
  • 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.
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