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12-letter words containing e, p, n, t

  • sankt pölten — a city in NE Austria, the capital of Lower Austria state. Pop: 49 121 (2001)
  • scapegoating — the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself.
  • screen print — artwork made by screen-printing
  • screen-print — a print made by the silkscreen process.
  • sea elephant — elephant seal.
  • seating plan — layout of seats at a venue or on transport
  • self-concept — the idea or mental image one has of oneself and one's strengths, weaknesses, status, etc.; self-image.
  • self-pitying — Someone who is self-pitying is full of self-pity.
  • self-tapping — (of a screw) cutting its own thread when screwed into a plain hole in a metal sheet
  • semideponent — (of a Latin verb) active in meaning but passive in form in the perfect tense
  • 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.
  • sidestepping — the act of ascending or descending by facing sideways and lifting each ski alternately
  • silver point — the melting point of silver, equal to 960.8°C, used as a fixed point on the international temperature scale.
  • simple tense — a tense of verbs, in English and other languages, not involving the use of an auxiliary verb in addition to the main verb, as for example the past he drowned as opposed to the future he will drown
  • single-party — of or relating to a form of government in which only a single political party constitutes the government
  • siphonostele — a hollow tube of vascular tissue enclosing a pith and embedded in ground tissue.
  • sixteenpenny — noting a nail 3½ inches (9 cm) long. Symbol: 16d.
  • skeleton map — a map showing only basic details of a land, place, etc
  • somers point — a town in SE New Jersey.
  • soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
  • spatter cone — a low, steep-sided volcanic cone built up of droplets or blobs of lava erupted from a fissure or vent.
  • speciational — relating to speciation
  • 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.
  • spermatozoon — one of the minute, usually actively motile gametes in semen, which serve to fertilize the ovum; a mature male reproductive cell.
  • sphacelation — the process of mortification
  • 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.
  • spinach beet — chard, a plant cultivated for its edible leaves
  • 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
  • spinulescent — producing spines
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