12-letter words containing i, n, d, s, p
- pseudonymity — pseudonymous character.
- puddingstone — any conglomerate rock having dark-colored, rounded pebbles that are embedded in a light-colored, fine-grained matrix
- purblindness — the state of being purblind
- radiophonist — a person who produces radiophonic music
- 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.
- sago pudding — a sweet pudding made with sago and milk
- sand springs — a town in NE Oklahoma.
- sandpainting — a type of painting done by American Indians, esp in the healing ceremonies of the Navaho, using fine coloured sand on a neutral ground
- 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.
- scouring pad — a small pad, as of steel wool or plastic mesh, used for scouring pots, pans, etc.
- 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
- shipbuilding — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
- sidestepping — the act of ascending or descending by facing sideways and lifting each ski alternately
- simpleminded — free of deceit or guile; artless or unsophisticated.
- sindonophany — the periodic exhibiting to the public of the shroud that the body of Christ is thought to have been wrapped in
- skip welding — a technique of spacing welds on thin structural members in order to balance and minimize internal stresses due to heat.
- slap dashing — slab dashing.
- snake-hipped — having thin, sinuous hips.
- snow pudding — a pudding, prepared by folding egg whites into a lemon gelatin mixture.
- spade guinea — a guinea decorated with a spade-shaped shield, coined during the reign of George III
- span loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
- spearheading — the sharp-pointed head that forms the piercing end of a spear.
- 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.
- spina bifida — a congenital neural tube defect in which part of the meninges or spinal cord protrudes through the spinal column, often resulting in neurological impairment.
- spinal fluid — cerebrospinal fluid
- 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
- spinning rod — a flexible fishing rod, often made of fiberglass, used with a spinning reel.
- spinsterhood — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
- spiny lizard — any of numerous iguanid lizards of the genus Sceloporus, common in North and Central America, usually having keeled scales that may end in a sharp point.
- spiny-finned — having fins with sharp bony rays, as an acanthopterygian.
- spiral-bound — having a spiral binding.
- spiritedness — having or showing mettle, courage, vigor, liveliness, etc.: a spirited defense of poetry.
- split second — a fraction of a second.