12-letter words containing n, o, t, s, p
- 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.
- shipping ton — a unit of weight, equivalent to 2000 pounds (0.907 metric ton) avoirdupois (short ton) in the U.S. and 2240 pounds (1.016 metric tons) avoirdupois (long ton) in Great Britain.
- short-spoken — speaking in a short, brief, or curt manner.
- showstopping — Theater. a performer or performance that wins enthusiastic or prolonged applause.
- sign-posting — a post bearing a sign that gives information or guidance.
- silver point — the melting point of silver, equal to 960.8°C, used as a fixed point on the international temperature scale.
- sinanthropus — the genus to which Peking man was formerly assigned.
- siphonostele — a hollow tube of vascular tissue enclosing a pith and embedded in ground tissue.
- skeleton map — a map showing only basic details of a land, place, etc
- slopping out — In prisons where prisoners have to use buckets as toilets, slopping out is the practice in which they empty the buckets.
- slumpflation — a situation in which economic depression is combined with increasing inflation
- snapshotting — an informal photograph, especially one taken quickly by a handheld camera.
- somatotropin — a hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland, that stimulates growth in humans.
- somers point — a town in SE New Jersey.
- soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
- soup to nuts — (of a meal) complete or impressive in number of courses.
- soup-to-nuts — (of a meal) complete or impressive in number of courses.
- spanish foot — a carved pyramidal foot having fluted, concave sides usually ending in a scroll at the bottom.
- 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.
- speciational — relating to speciation
- speedboating — the act, practice, or sport of traveling in a speedboat.
- spermatozoon — one of the minute, usually actively motile gametes in semen, which serve to fertilize the ovum; a mature male reproductive cell.
- sphacelation — the process of mortification
- spiflication — rough treatment
- spin control — Slang. an attempt to give a bias to news coverage, especially of a political candidate or event.
- spinsterhood — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
- splenization — the transformation of something into a spleenlike tissue
- split second — a fraction of a second.
- splotchiness — the state or condition of being splotchy
- sponge cloth — any cloth loosely woven of coarse yarn to produce a spongy look or texture, especially one constructed in honeycomb weave.
- spongioblast — one of the primordial cells in the embryonic brain and spinal cord capable of developing into neuroglia.
- spongologist — a person who studies sponges
- sportfishing — fishing with a rod and reel for sport, especially for saltwater sport fish from a motorboat.
- sporting dog — one of any of several breeds of usually large dogs especially suited by size and training for hunting by pointing, flushing, and retrieving game and including the pointers, setters, retrievers, and spaniels.
- sporting gun — a gun intended for hunting
- sports drink — a drink containing sugar and salts, etc designed to help replace fluid and energy lost through the physical exertion of sport
- sportsperson — athlete
- spot welding — fusing metal
- spotlighting — a strong, focused light thrown upon a particular spot, as on a small area of a stage or in a television studio, for making some object, person, or group especially conspicuous.
- spotsylvania — a village in NE Virginia: the scene of Civil War battles between the armies of Grant and Lee, May 8–21, 1864.
- staging post — an area, as a port of embarkation, where troops are assembled and readied for transit to a new field of operations.
- stand up for — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
- stanley pool — a lake between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Congo-Brazzaville, formed by a widening of the River Congo. Area: 829 sq km (320 sq miles)
- 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.