12-letter words containing d, i, p, t, e
- redemptorist — a member of the “Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer,” founded by St. Alphonsus Liguori in 1732.
- reproduction — the act or process of reproducing.
- reproductive — serving to reproduce.
- residentship — a person who resides in a place.
- respondentia — a loan upon a ship's cargo, which is repaid with interest if the ship reaches its destination, and if the ship does not, the loan is not repaid
- 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.
- safe-deposit — providing safekeeping for valuables: a safe-deposit vault.
- secchi depth — the depth at which a Secchi disk is no longer visible from the surface of ocean water.
- seed capital — small sum invested in new business
- semideponent — (of a Latin verb) active in meaning but passive in form in the perfect tense
- serendipiter — an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.
- sharp-witted — having or showing mental acuity; intellectually discerning; acute.
- sidesplitter — something that is uproariously funny, as a joke or a situation.
- sidestepping — the act of ascending or descending by facing sideways and lifting each ski alternately
- 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.
- 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.
- spermaticide — spermicide.
- spermatocide — spermicide.
- spermatozoid — a motile male gamete produced in an antheridium.
- 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 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.
- spirit guide — type of mystical guardian
- spiritedness — having or showing mettle, courage, vigor, liveliness, etc.: a spirited defense of poetry.
- spit-roasted — cooked on a spit
- split second — a fraction of a second.
- 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.
- striped bass — an important American game fish, Morone saxatilis, having blackish stripes along each side.
- striped drum — a North American marine and freshwater sciaenid fish, Equetus pulcher, that utters a drumming sound
- study period — a period of time or lesson used for studying
- subduplicate — of the square root of ratios
- 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.
- suicide pact — an agreement between two or more people to commit suicide together.
- superevident — extremely or very evident
- synadelphite — an arsenate containing manganese and aluminium
- table tripod — a low mount or stand for a camera.
- tape editing — the process of putting the various segments of a master video or audio tape into a predetermined sequence: usually done electronically.
- thick-lipped — having thick lips
- 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.
- tickled pink — to touch or stroke lightly with the fingers, a feather, etc., so as to excite a tingling or itching sensation in; titillate.
- tight-lipped — speaking very little; taciturn; close-mouthed.
- 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.
- time-expired — (of a cheque) that has lapsed and is no longer valid