12-letter words containing l, i, p, e, t
- space flight — journey into outer space
- special sort — a character, such as an accented letter, that is not a usual member of any font
- special team — Football. a group of players fielded for kicking plays, as punts, kickoffs, and field-goal attempts.
- special term — the sitting of a court for the trial of a special case.
- specialistic — pertaining to or characteristic of specialists or specialism.
- specialities — specialty.
- speciational — relating to speciation
- spectatorial — a person who looks on or watches; onlooker; observer.
- speculatrice — a female speculator
- speleologist — the exploration and study of caves.
- sphacelation — the process of mortification
- sphericality — the state of being a sphere
- 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.
- 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
- spinulescent — producing spines
- spirit level — a device for determining true horizontal or vertical directions by the centering of a bubble in a slightly curved glass tube or tubes filled with alcohol or ether.
- spiritualize — to make spiritual.
- spirochaetal — resulting from spirochaetes
- spitefulness — full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: a spiteful child.
- splenization — the transformation of something into a spleenlike tissue
- split screen — Also called composite shot. Movies, Television. a type of process photography in which two or more shots are juxtaposed and projected simultaneously on the screen.
- split second — a fraction of a second.
- split ticket — a ballot on which not all votes have been cast for candidates of the same party.
- split-screen — Split-screen is used to describe the technique in making films and television programmes in which two different pieces of film are shown at the same time.
- splotchiness — the state or condition of being splotchy
- spot welding — fusing metal
- spotted tail — (Sinte-galeshka) 1833?–81, Brulé Sioux leader.
- spotted wilt — a viral disease of plants, characterized by wilting and by brown, sunken spots and streaks on the stems and leaves.
- spray millet — the seeds of millet left on the spike and sold in pet shops for cage birds.
- sputteringly — in a sputtering manner
- state police — a police force under state authority rather than under the authority of a city or county in the state.
- stegophilist — a person who enjoys climbing up the outside of buildings
- stem reptile — any member of the extinct order Cotylosauria, comprising heavy-bodied, splay-limbed, plant-eating reptiles that arose during the Carboniferous Period and that are considered to include the ancestors of all other reptiles.
- stephenville — a town in central Texas.
- stipulaceous — of, relating to, having, resembling, or living on stipules
- stool pigeon — a pigeon used as a decoy.
- streptolysin — a type of hemolysin produced by certain species of streptococcus.
- strike plate — strike (def 67).
- strophiolate — having a strophiole
- stupefyingly — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
- subduplicate — of the square root of ratios
- subspecialty — a lesser or minor specialty: a cinematographer with a subspecialty of portrait photography.
- sulfite pulp — wood pulp made by the sulfite process.
- super-polite — showing good manners toward others, as in behavior, speech, etc.; courteous; civil: a polite reply.
- supercapital — a member situated between a capital and the spring of an arch, as a dosseret.
- superelastic — capable of returning to its original length, shape, etc., after being stretched, deformed, compressed, or expanded: an elastic waistband; elastic fiber.
- superplastic — (of some metals and alloys) having the capacity to undergo extreme deformation at high temperatures.
- superquality — above-average quality
- suppletorily — supplying a deficiency.