12-letter words containing n, o, s, p
- 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.
- trepidations — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- trunk piston — a piston with a long skirt to take the side thrust, as in an automobile engine.
- type section — the sequence of strata referred to in establishing a stratigraphic unit, as a member or formation.
- un-purposely — intentionally; deliberately: He tripped me purposely.
- unauspicious — inauspicious; unfavourable; unlucky
- uncompassion — a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering.
- uncomposable — not fit for composition
- undecomposed — not reduced to constituent elements
- underexposed — If a photograph is underexposed, it is darker than it should be because the film was not exposed to enough light.
- underpassion — an underlying or subconscious passion
- uneuphonious — pleasant in sound; agreeable to the ear; characterized by euphony: a sweet, euphonious voice.
- unhospitable — not hospitable
- unimprisoned — not confined in a prison
- unit process — any of a number of standard operations, such as filtration or distillation, that are widely used in various chemical and process industries
- unoppressive — not cruel or harsh
- unoptimistic — disposed to take a favorable view of events or conditions and to expect the most favorable outcome.
- unpassionate — having, compelled by, or ruled by intense emotion or strong feeling; fervid: a passionate advocate of socialism.
- unpersonable — of pleasing personal appearance; handsome or comely; attractive.
- unpolishable — incapable of being made smooth or shiny
- unpoliteness — the quality or state of being impolite
- unpossessing — having no possessions or ownership
- unpropitious — presenting favorable conditions; favorable: propitious weather.
- unprosperous — having or characterized by financial success or good fortune; flourishing; successful: a prosperous business.
- unprotesting — an expression or declaration of objection, disapproval, or dissent, often in opposition to something a person is powerless to prevent or avoid: a protest against increased taxation.
- unresponding — to reply or answer in words: to respond briefly to a question.
- unresponsive — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
- unsaponified — to convert (a fat) into soap by treating with an alkali.
- unscrupulous — not scrupulous; unrestrained by scruples; conscienceless; unprincipled.
- unsupporting — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- unsupportive — giving support.
- unsupposable — not able to be supposed
- unsuspicious — not feeling suspicion
- unsyncopated — marked by syncopation: syncopated rhythm.
- unworshipful — not worshipful; not showing reverence or admiration
- unworshipped — not worshipped; not admired or revered
- van der post — Sir Laurens (Jan). 1906–96, South African writer and traveller. His works include the travel books Venture to the Interior (1952), The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958), and Testament to the Bushmen (1984) and the novels The Hunter and the Whale (1967) and The Admiral's Baby (1996)
- vaporescence — production or formation of vapor.
- vaporishness — the quality or state of being vaporish
- video porn's — pornographic movies available on videocassette or optical disk, on the Internet, or on subscription television.
- viscountship — the position of being a viscount
- wapsipinicon — a river in E Iowa, flowing SE to the Mississippi River. 255 miles (410 km) long.
- west pointer — a graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point
- whipscorpion — any of numerous arachnids of the order Uropygi, of tropical and warm temperate regions, resembling a scorpion but having an abdomen that ends in a slender, nonvenomous whip.
- whooper swan — a common, Old World swan, Cygnus cygnus, distinguished by a yellow patch at the base of its bill, noted for its whooping cry.
- winning post — a post on a racetrack, marking the goal of a race.
- winnipegosis — Lake, a lake in S Canada, in W Manitoba, W of Lake Winnipeg. 2086 sq. mi. (5405 sq. km).