12-letter words containing n, o, p, a, r
- 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.
- spiral-bound — having a spiral binding.
- sponged ware — spongeware.
- sporangiolum — a small sporangium
- square piano — a piano with a rectangular, horizontal body.
- stand up for — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
- state prison — a prison maintained by a state for the confinement of felons.
- statesperson — a statesman or stateswoman, a respected senior politician
- stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
- steganograph — a piece of coded writing; cipher
- stenographer — a person who specializes in taking dictation in shorthand.
- stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
- stereoptican — a projector usually consisting of two complete lanterns arranged so that one picture appears to dissolve while the next is forming.
- strepitation — the quality or state of being strepitant
- stride piano — a style of jazz piano playing in which the right hand plays the melody while the left hand plays a single bass note or octave on the strong beat and a chord on the weak beat, developed in Harlem during the 1920s, partly from ragtime piano playing.
- strophanthin — a very poisonous, bitter glycoside or mixture of glycosides obtained from the dried, ripe seeds of a strophanthus, especially Strophanthus kombe, used as a cardiac stimulant.
- strophanthus — any of various shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Strophanthus, of the dogbane family, chiefly of tropical Africa.
- sukarnoputri — Megawati (ˈmɛɡəˌwɒtɪ). born 1947, Indonesian politician; president of Indonesia (2001–04): daughter of Achmed Sukarno
- 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
- superorganic — of or relating to the structure of cultural elements within society conceived as independent of and superior to the individual members of society.
- superstation — an independent television station whose signal is transmitted by satellite to subscribers on a cable system.
- support band — a band, pop group, rock group, etc not topping the bill
- suspensorial — relating to a suspensorium
- tanjungpriok — a port in Indonesia, on the NW coast of Java adjoining the capital, Jakarta: a major shipping and distributing centre for the whole archipelago
- technography — the description and study of the arts and sciences in their geographical and ethnic distribution and historical development.
- telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
- telegraphone — an early magnetic sound-recording device for use with wire, tape, or disks.
- temporaneous — lasting a short while
- tetrapolitan — of or related to a tetrapolis
- theanthropic — of or relating to both God or a god and human beings; both divine and human.
- theatrophone — a late 19th century service that allowed subscribers to listen to concerts or plays through the telephone
- to pull rank — If you say that someone in authority pulls rank, you mean that they unfairly force other people to do what they want because of their higher rank or position.
- top grafting — grafting in the top, as of a tree, in order to replace existing branches with those of a more desired variety or form.
- top sergeant — a first sergeant.
- tradesperson — a skilled worker
- trading post — a store established in an unsettled or thinly settled region by a trader or trading company to obtain furs and local products in exchange for supplies, clothing, other goods, or for cash.
- trainspotter — A trainspotter is someone who is very interested in trains and spends time going to stations and recording the numbers of the trains that they see.
- trans person — a person who is transgender or transsexual.
- transit stop — a stop made by a vehicle such as an aircraft, train or bus on the way to its final destination
- transpicuous — transparent.
- transponible — capable of being transposed.
- transpontine — across or beyond a bridge.
- transportive — to carry, move, or convey from one place to another.
- transumption — an act of metaphorical transference
- trapshooting — the sport of shooting at clay pigeons hurled into the air from a trap.
- trephination — a small circular saw with a center pin mounted on a strong hollow metal shaft to which is attached a transverse handle: used in surgery to remove circular disks of bone from the skull.
- trepidations — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.