12-letter words containing l, p, s, o, e, r
- spirochaetal — resulting from spirochaetes
- stepmotherly — related to or having the characteristics of a stepmother
- storm petrel — any of several small, tube-nosed seabirds of the family Hydrobatidae, usually having black or sooty-brown plumage with a white rump.
- streptolysin — a type of hemolysin produced by certain species of streptococcus.
- streptosolen — a type of South American shrub grown for ornamental purposes, with orange trumpet-shaped flowers
- strophiolate — having a strophiole
- subopercular — of or relating to the suboperculum
- suboperculum — a bone in fishes behind the operculum or gill covering
- super-polite — showing good manners toward others, as in behavior, speech, etc.; courteous; civil: a polite reply.
- supercilious — haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression.
- supercooling — to cool (a liquid) below its freezing point without producing solidification or crystallization; undercool.
- superfrontal — a piece of cloth placed over an altar and frontal and hanging down a few inches over the front of the altar
- superordinal — relating to the superorder
- superovulate — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
- superpolymer — a superior polymer
- superposable — to place above or upon something else, or one upon another.
- suppletorily — supplying a deficiency.
- suspensorial — relating to a suspensorium
- telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
- teleutospore — a spore of certain rust fungi, which carries the fungus through the winter and which, on germination, produces the promycelium.
- the populars — cheap newspapers with mass circulation; the popular press
- tradespeople — people engaged in trade, esp shopkeepers
- transponible — capable of being transposed.
- triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
- tribespeople — members of a tribe; people living a tribal lifestyle
- tricephalous — with three heads
- tropicalised — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- trouble spot — an area in which trouble exists or is expected to develop: There are several diplomatic trouble spots in Central America.
- trouser clip — a clip that is worn around the bottom of a trouser leg to stop the material getting caught in the chain of a bicycle
- un-purposely — intentionally; deliberately: He tripped me purposely.
- unpersonable — of pleasing personal appearance; handsome or comely; attractive.
- upper school — a scholastic division, especially in a private school, including the terminal secondary grades.
- velcro strip — a strip or roll of Velcro, able to be cut to the required length
- water pistol — a toy gun that shoots a stream of liquid.
- wool stapler — a dealer in wool.