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12-letter words containing d, e, p, n, s

  • sandpapering — the act or process of polishing or grinding a surface with or as if with sandpaper
  • sapindaceous — belonging to the Sapindaceae, the soapberry family of plants.
  • scolopendrid — any myriapod of the order Scolopendrida, including many large, poisonous centipedes.
  • semideponent — (of a Latin verb) active in meaning but passive in form in the perfect tense
  • send packing — to dismiss peremptorily
  • serendipiter — an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.
  • sheepherding — the act of herding or tending sheep
  • shepherdling — a young or little shepherd
  • sidestepping — the act of ascending or descending by facing sideways and lifting each ski alternately
  • simpleminded — free of deceit or guile; artless or unsophisticated.
  • skip welding — a technique of spacing welds on thin structural members in order to balance and minimize internal stresses due to heat.
  • 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
  • snake-hipped — having thin, sinuous hips.
  • 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.
  • spade guinea — a guinea decorated with a spade-shaped shield, coined during the reign of George III
  • spearheading — the sharp-pointed head that forms the piercing end of a spear.
  • speckledness — the characteristic of being speckled
  • speech sound — any of the set of distinctive sounds of a given language. Compare phoneme.
  • speed dating — an organized social event in which participants have one-on-one conversations typically limited to less than ten minutes, for the purpose of meeting people they would like to date.
  • speedballing — the practice of taking cocaine and heroin together intravenously
  • speedboating — the act, practice, or sport of traveling in a speedboat.
  • speedskating — a form of ice skating in which contestants race against each other or the clock over various distances
  • speedwriting — a system of shorthand that is based on the sound of words and utilizes letters of the alphabet rather than symbols.
  • spellbinding — to hold or bind by or as if by a spell; enchant; entrance; fascinate.
  • spider plant — Also called ribbon plant. a plant, Chlorophytum comosum, of the lily family, native to southern Africa, that has long, narrow leaves and clusters of white flowers and is widely cultivated as a houseplant.
  • spiderhunter — any of several sunbirds of the genus Arachnothera, of southern Asia and the East Indies, having dull-colored plumage and a long bill.
  • spindle file — a device for holding bills, memos, etc., having a projecting metal spike or hooked object on which to stick papers.
  • spindle side — the female side or line of descent of a family; distaff side (opposed to spear side).
  • spindle tree — any of various shrubs or trees of the genus Euonymus, esp E. europaeus, of Europe and W Asia, typically having red fruits and yielding a hard wood formerly used in making spindles: family Celastraceae
  • spinsterhood — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
  • spiny-finned — having fins with sharp bony rays, as an acanthopterygian.
  • spiritedness — having or showing mettle, courage, vigor, liveliness, etc.: a spirited defense of poetry.
  • split second — a fraction of a second.
  • sponged ware — spongeware.
  • spot welding — fusing metal
  • stride piano — a style of jazz piano playing in which the right hand plays the melody while the left hand plays a single bass note or octave on the strong beat and a chord on the weak beat, developed in Harlem during the 1920s, partly from ragtime piano playing.
  • student lamp — a table lamp whose light source can be adjusted in height.
  • stupendously — causing amazement; astounding; marvelous: stupendous news.
  • suet pudding — a pudding made of chopped beef suet and flour, boiled or steamed in a cloth, often with other ingredients, as raisins, spices, etc.
  • sulphadoxine — an antibiotic drug of the sulphonamide group, commonly used in combination with pyrimethamine to treat malaria, and in combination with various drugs to treat certain infections
  • sulphonamide — any of a class of organic compounds that are amides of sulphonic acids containing the group –SO2NH2 or a group derived from this. An important class of sulphonamides are the sulfa drugs
  • sunday paper — a newspaper which is only published on Sundays
  • sunnyside up — (of an egg) fried without breaking the yolk or being turned over, with the yolk remaining visible and somewhat liquid inside.
  • superconduct — to conduct electricity very efficiently or without resistance, to act as a superconductor
  • superevident — extremely or very evident
  • superkingdom — in some systems of biological classification, either of the two major subdivisions, prokaryote or eukaryote, into which all living organisms can be placed
  • supermundane — above and beyond the nature or character of the worldly or terrestrial.
  • superordinal — relating to the superorder
  • supplemented — something added to complete a thing, supply a deficiency, or reinforce or extend a whole.
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