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12-letter words containing n, a, p, r

  • selenography — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
  • separateness — to keep apart or divide, as by an intervening barrier or space: to separate two fields by a fence.
  • seringapatam — a town in S Karnataka, in S India, former capital of Mysore state: taken by the British 1799.
  • serpent star — brittle star.
  • serpentarium — a place where snakes are housed, especially for exhibition.
  • severna park — a city in central Maryland.
  • shahjahanpur — a city in central Uttar Pradesh, in N India.
  • share option — A share option is an opportunity for the employees of a company to buy shares at a special price.
  • sharp tongue — If you say that someone has a sharp tongue, you are critical of the fact that they say things which are unkind though often clever.
  • shopbreaking — the act of breaking into a shop
  • shrimp plant — a small, sprawling shrub, Justicia brandegeana (or Beloperone guttata), of the acanthus family, native to Mexico, having small white flowers protruding from a series of overlapping reddish bracts and often cultivated as a houseplant.
  • signal corps — a branch of the army responsible for military communications, meteorological studies, and related work.
  • sinanthropus — the genus to which Peking man was formerly assigned.
  • single-party — of or relating to a form of government in which only a single political party constitutes the government
  • single-payer — noting or relating to a healthcare or health insurance system in which the government or a publicly owned and regulated agency pays all medical costs from a single fund.
  • sleep around — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
  • sleeping car — a railroad car fitted with berths, compartments, bedrooms, or drawing rooms for passengers to sleep in.
  • sloped roman — a roman (vertical) typeface, usually sans serif, i.e. without the small, decorative, terminal strokes with which some typefaces are designed. The typeface is made to slope (usually to the right), but not generally to the same degree as a true italic typeface
  • smarty-pants — smarty.
  • snobographer — a person who writes about snobs
  • snow leopard — a long-haired, leopardlike feline, Panthera (Uncia) uncia, of mountain ranges of central Asia, having a relatively small head and a thick, creamy-gray coat with rosette spots: an endangered species.
  • somatotropin — a hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland, that stimulates growth in humans.
  • song sparrow — a small emberizine songbird, Melospiza melodia, common in North America.
  • soprano clef — a sign locating middle C on the bottom line of the staff.
  • spanish iris — an iris, Iris xyphium, of the Mediterranean region, having blue, white, or yellow flowers with a yellow or orange patch.
  • spanish rice — rice prepared with chopped onions, tomatoes, green peppers, and sometimes diced ham, seasoned with cayenne pepper and mixed with butter.
  • spar varnish — a durable, weather-resistant varnish applied to unpainted wooden areas, especially on ships.
  • sparcstation — (computer)   A family of workstations from Sun Microsystems based on the SPARC architecture. Models include the SPARCStation 1, 1+, SLC, SPARCStation ELC, IPX, SPARCStation 5, SPARCStation 10 and SPARCStation 20.
  • spatter cone — a low, steep-sided volcanic cone built up of droplets or blobs of lava erupted from a fissure or vent.
  • speakerphone — a telephone or telephone attachment equipped with both loudspeaker and microphone, thus permitting the instrument to be used without being held.
  • spearfishing — any of several fishes of the genus Tetrapturus, resembling the sailfish but having the first dorsal fin much less developed: inhabiting all seas, but rare.
  • spearheading — the sharp-pointed head that forms the piercing end of a spear.
  • speech organ — any part of the body, as the tongue, velum, diaphragm, or lungs, that participates, actively or passively, voluntarily or involuntarily, in the production of the sounds of speech.
  • spermagonium — Botany, Mycology. spermogonium.
  • spermatozoon — one of the minute, usually actively motile gametes in semen, which serve to fertilize the ovum; a mature male reproductive cell.
  • sphenography — the art of writing in cuneiform characters.
  • 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.
  • spinal nerve — any of a series of paired nerves that originate in the nerve roots of the spinal cord and emerge from the vertebrae on both sides of the spinal column, each branching out to innervate a specific region of the neck, trunk, or limbs.
  • 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.
  • spiral-bound — having a spiral binding.
  • splatterpunk — a form of fiction featuring extremely graphic violence.
  • sponged ware — spongeware.
  • sporangiolum — a small sporangium
  • sprechgesang — a vocal style intermediate between speech and singing but without exact pitch intonation.
  • spring break — a vacation from school or college during the spring term, lasting about a week.
  • spring catch — a catch for an interior or cabinet door that has a bolt operated by a spring.
  • spring water — water from natural underground source
  • spring-clean — to subject (a place) to a spring-cleaning.
  • spur gearing — a system of spur gears.
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