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12-letter words containing l, e, p, t, o, s

  • postdeadline — the time by which something must be finished or submitted; the latest time for finishing something: a five o'clock deadline.
  • postdelivery — of, relating to, or occurring after a delivery
  • postelection — the selection of a person or persons for office by vote.
  • poster child — a child appearing on a poster for a charitable organization.
  • poster color — poster paint.
  • postimperial — of, relating to, or designating the period after an empire
  • postliterate — of or relating to a (hypothetical) time or stage in society when literacy is no longer necessary or valued
  • postmedieval — occurring or existing after the Middle Ages, of or related to the period after the Middle Ages
  • postneonatal — of, relating to, or occurring in the (four week) period after birth
  • preselection — to select in advance; choose beforehand.
  • problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
  • proclivities — natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.
  • proconsulate — the office or term of office of a proconsul.
  • profitlessly — in such a way as to not yield profit, as in financial gains or general benefits or advantages
  • propertyless — that which a person owns; the possession or possessions of a particular owner: They lost all their property in the fire.
  • prosectorial — characteristic of a prosector
  • prosecutable — Law. to institute legal proceedings against (a person). to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process. to conduct criminal proceedings in court against.
  • protensively — in the manner of duration
  • protest flag — a flag hoisted by a racing yacht to advise the judges of a violation of the rules by another yacht.
  • psephologist — A psephologist studies how people vote in elections.
  • put flesh on — If you put flesh on something, you add details and more information to it.
  • put to sleep — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
  • pyrosulphate — any salt of pyrosulphuric acid
  • relationship — a connection, association, or involvement.
  • retropulsion — an abnormal tendency to walk backwards: a symptom of Parkinson's disease
  • retropulsive — of or relating to retropulsion
  • reupholstery — the materials used to cushion and cover furniture.
  • 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.
  • sales report — a periodical report made by a salesperson to a manager giving details of amounts sold, existing and new accounts, etc
  • sample point — a possible result of an experiment, represented as a point.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • self-concept — the idea or mental image one has of oneself and one's strengths, weaknesses, status, etc.; self-image.
  • self-support — the supporting or maintaining of oneself or itself without reliance on outside aid.
  • semitropical — subtropical.
  • seropurulent — composed of or containing both serum and pus
  • 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.
  • short splice — a splice used when an increased thickness of the united rope is not objectionable, made by unlaying the rope ends a certain distance, uniting them so that their strands overlap, then tucking each alternately over and under others several times.
  • silver point — the melting point of silver, equal to 960.8°C, used as a fixed point on the international temperature scale.
  • siphonostele — a hollow tube of vascular tissue enclosing a pith and embedded in ground tissue.
  • skeleton map — a map showing only basic details of a land, place, etc
  • slash pocket — a pocket set into a garment, especially below the waistline, to which easy access is provided by an exterior, vertical or diagonal slit.
  • sleep it off — to rid oneself of the effects of some excess, overindulgence, etc., specif. of the aftereffects of drinking much alcoholic liquor, by sleeping
  • slipper foot — an elongated pad foot.
  • somatopleure — the double layer formed by the association of the upper layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the overlying ectoderm, functioning in the formation of the body wall and amnion.
  • south platte — a river flowing NE from central Colorado to the Platte River in W Nebraska. 424 miles (683 km) long.
  • special sort — a character, such as an accented letter, that is not a usual member of any font
  • speciational — relating to speciation
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