12-letter words containing l, e, p, a, s
- release copy — an article, notice, announcement, or the like, issued in advance for publication or broadcast, bearing a release date.
- renal pelvis — a small funnel-shaped cavity of the kidney into which urine is discharged before passing into the ureter
- replevisable — capable of being replevied.
- reproachless — irreproachable.
- responsorial — of or relating to response; responsive
- roselle park — a borough in NE New Jersey.
- 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.
- saint phalle — Niki de [nik-ee duh;; French nee-kee duh] /ˈnɪk i də;; French niˈki də/ (Show IPA), 1930–2002, French sculptor and painter.
- sales report — a periodical report made by a salesperson to a manager giving details of amounts sold, existing and new accounts, etc
- salesmanship — the technique of selling a product: They used a promotional gimmick that was the last word in salesmanship.
- saloonkeeper — a person who operates a saloon (sense 3)
- saltpetreman — a supplier of saltpetre
- sample point — a possible result of an experiment, represented as a point.
- sample space — the collection of all possible results of an experiment, represented as points.
- sankt pölten — a city in NE Austria, the capital of Lower Austria state. Pop: 49 121 (2001)
- saw palmetto — a shrublike palmetto, Serenoa repens, of the palm family, native to the southern U.S., having green or blue leafstalks set with spiny teeth.
- scafell pike — a mountain in NW England, in Cumberland: highest peak in England. 3210 feet (978 meters).
- scapegallows — a criminal who escapes death by hanging or the gallows
- scatter plot — a graphic representation of bivariate data as a set of points in the plane that have Cartesian coordinates equal to corresponding values of the two variates.
- schappe silk — a yarn or fabric of or similar to spun silk.
- schiaparelli — Elsa [el-sah] /ˈɛl sɑ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1973, French fashion designer, born in Italy.
- scolopaceous — (of birds or other animals) like a snipe, a shore bird with a straight beak
- scopes trial — John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
- scrap dealer — a person who deals in scrap
- scratchplate — a plastic or metal plate attached to the front of a guitar to protect it from pick scratches
- sea elephant — elephant seal.
- sea purslane — a small chenopodiaceous shrub, Halimione portulacoides, of salt marshes in Eurasia and parts of Africa, having oval leaves and inconspicuous flowers
- seating plan — layout of seats at a venue or on transport
- seed capital — small sum invested in new business
- seed capsule — the part of a fruit enclosing the seeds; pericarp
- selenography — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
- self-playing — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- self-tapping — (of a screw) cutting its own thread when screwed into a plain hole in a metal sheet
- semi-popular — regarded with favor, approval, or affection by people in general: a popular preacher.
- semitropical — subtropical.
- separability — capable of being separated, parted, or dissociated.
- septilateral — having seven sides.
- septuplicate — a group, series, or set of seven identical copies (usually preceded by in).
- seraphically — of, like, or befitting a seraph.
- sextuplicate — a group, series, or set of six identical copies: The application is to be submitted in sextuplicate.
- sexual spore — a spore formed after the fusion of gametes and an asexual spore is the result of asexual reproduction
- she's apples — all is going well
- sheep laurel — a small E North American plant (Kalmia angustifolia) of the heath family, with pinkish flowers and evergreen leaves poisonous to sheep and other animals
- shore patrol — (often initial capital letters) members of an organization in the U.S. Navy having police duties similar to those performed by military police. Abbreviation: SP.
- shoulder pad — clothing: insert in shoulder
- shuffle play — a facility on a compact disc player that randomly selects a track from one of a number of compact discs
- sieve-plates — an elongated cell whose walls contain perforations (sieve pores) that are arranged in circumscribed areas (sieve plates) and that afford communication with similar adjacent cells.
- silver maple — a maple, Acer saccharinum, having leaves that are light green above and silvery white beneath.
- silver paper — silver foil.
- silver plate — thin coat of silver