12-letter words containing e, n, t, r, p
- repopulation — the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area.
- representant — someone who acts on behalf of another; representative
- representing — to serve to express, designate, stand for, or denote, as a word, symbol, or the like does; symbolize: In this painting the cat represents evil and the bird, good.
- repristinate — to restore to the first or original state or condition.
- reproduction — the act or process of reproducing.
- reproportion — comparative relation between things or magnitudes as to size, quantity, number, etc.; ratio.
- reputational — the estimation in which a person or thing is held, especially by the community or the public generally; repute: a man of good reputation.
- 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
- responsivity — the quality or state of being responsive.
- resupination — a resupinate condition.
- retainership — the condition of being a retainer or of having retainers.
- retropulsion — an abnormal tendency to walk backwards: a symptom of Parkinson's disease
- rocket plane — aircraft that launches rockets
- rohnert park — a city in W California.
- rotten apple — You can use rotten apple to talk about a person who is dishonest and therefore causes a lot of problems for the group or organization they belong to.
- rubber plant — a plant, Ficus elastica, of the mulberry family, having oblong, shining, leathery leaves, growing native as a tall tree in India, the Malay Archipelago, etc., used as a source of rubber and cultivated in Europe and America as an ornamental house plant.
- run on empty — to be at a level of energy, creativity, etc. that is inadequate to sustain worthwhile activity or achievement
- saint-pierre — two small groups of islands off the S coast of Newfoundland: an overseas territory of France; important base for fishing. 3 sq. mi. (240 sq. km). Capital: St. Pierre.
- saint-tropez — a town in SE France, on the French Riviera: beach resort.
- saltpetreman — a supplier of saltpetre
- screen print — artwork made by screen-printing
- screen-print — a print made by the silkscreen process.
- separateness — to keep apart or divide, as by an intervening barrier or space: to separate two fields by a fence.
- septentrions — the seven stars of the Plough
- serendipiter — an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.
- seringapatam — a town in S Karnataka, in S India, former capital of Mysore state: taken by the British 1799.
- seropurulent — composed of or containing both serum and pus
- serpent star — brittle star.
- serpentarium — a place where snakes are housed, especially for exhibition.
- serpentiform — shaped like a snake.
- serpentinely — in a serpentine fashion
- serpentinite — a rock containing large quantities of serpentine
- serpentinize — to convert (a mineral or rock) into serpentine.
- serpentinous — of the nature of serpentine; containing or consisting of serpentine
- share option — A share option is an opportunity for the employees of a company to buy shares at a special price.
- sharp tongue — If you say that someone has a sharp tongue, you are critical of the fact that they say things which are unkind though often clever.
- short-spoken — speaking in a short, brief, or curt manner.
- silver point — the melting point of silver, equal to 960.8°C, used as a fixed point on the international temperature scale.
- single-party — of or relating to a form of government in which only a single political party constitutes the government
- somers point — a town in SE New Jersey.
- spatter cone — a low, steep-sided volcanic cone built up of droplets or blobs of lava erupted from a fissure or vent.
- speedwriting — a system of shorthand that is based on the sound of words and utilizes letters of the alphabet rather than symbols.
- spermatozoon — one of the minute, usually actively motile gametes in semen, which serve to fertilize the ovum; a mature male reproductive cell.
- sphincterial — relating to a sphincter
- 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.
- spinstership — the state of being a spinster