12-letter words containing d, i, o, p, t
- spermatozoid — a motile male gamete produced in an antheridium.
- spinsterhood — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
- spit-roasted — cooked on a spit
- split second — a fraction of a second.
- sporting dog — one of any of several breeds of usually large dogs especially suited by size and training for hunting by pointing, flushing, and retrieving game and including the pointers, setters, retrievers, and spaniels.
- sports drink — a drink containing sugar and salts, etc designed to help replace fluid and energy lost through the physical exertion of sport
- spot welding — fusing metal
- spotted dick — a steamed or boiled suet pudding containing dried fruit
- spotted tail — (Sinte-galeshka) 1833?–81, Brulé Sioux leader.
- spotted wilt — a viral disease of plants, characterized by wilting and by brown, sunken spots and streaks on the stems and leaves.
- 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.
- study period — a period of time or lesson used for studying
- table tripod — a low mount or stand for a camera.
- third person — the grammatical person used by the speaker of an utterance in referring to anyone or anything other than the speaker or the one (third person singular) or ones (third person plural) being addressed.
- time deposit — a deposit that can be withdrawn by the depositor only after giving advance notice or after an agreed period of time has elapsed.
- top and tail — method of washing a baby
- top dressing — tennis court
- trading post — a store established in an unsettled or thinly settled region by a trader or trading company to obtain furs and local products in exchange for supplies, clothing, other goods, or for cash.
- trepidations — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- trepidatious — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
- trial period — time during which sth can be evaluated
- tripudiation — the act of dancing for joy
- trophy child — anything taken in war, hunting, competition, etc., especially when preserved as a memento; spoil, prize, or award.
- tropicalised — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- tropicalized — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- trypanocidal — (of a drug, agent, activity, etc) effective in killing trypanosomes
- tutor period — (in British secondary schools) a school period for which a tutor group comes together with their tutor
- twin paradox — a phenomenon predicted by relativity. One of a pair of identical twins is supposed to live normally in an inertial system whilst the other is accelerated to a high speed in a spaceship, travels for a long time, and finally returns to rest beside his twin. The travelled twin will be found to be younger than his brother
- typhoid mary — Mary ("Typhoid Mary") 1869?–1938, U.S. cook, born in Ireland: known immune carrier of typhoid fever who infected many with the disease, institutionalized in 1914.
- underexploit — to make insufficient use of
- undiplomatic — of, relating to, or engaged in diplomacy: diplomatic officials.
- unimportuned — without being forced or impelled
- unpatronized — having few or no patrons
- unproductive — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- unprohibited — to forbid (an action, activity, etc.) by authority or law: Smoking is prohibited here.
- unpropertied — owning property: the propertied class.
- well-pointed — having a point or points: a pointed arch.
- wild apricot — apricot (def 4).
- word picture — a description in words, especially one that is unusually vivid: She drew a word picture of a South Pacific sunset.
- world spirit — (often initial capital letters) God.