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12-letter words containing n, u, p, e

  • running pine — a ground pine, Lycopodium clavatum.
  • sapindaceous — belonging to the Sapindaceae, the soapberry family of plants.
  • sarrusophone — a metal double-reed wind instrument with a conical bore, related to the oboe and used especially in military bands.
  • schopenhauer — Arthur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1788–1860, German philosopher.
  • sea purslane — a small chenopodiaceous shrub, Halimione portulacoides, of salt marshes in Eurasia and parts of Africa, having oval leaves and inconspicuous flowers
  • seropurulent — composed of or containing both serum and pus
  • serpentarium — a place where snakes are housed, especially for exhibition.
  • serpentinous — of the nature of serpentine; containing or consisting of serpentine
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
  • spaciousness — containing much space, as a house, room, or vehicle; amply large.
  • spade guinea — a guinea decorated with a spade-shaped shield, coined during the reign of George III
  • speciousness — apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible: specious arguments.
  • speech sound — any of the set of distinctive sounds of a given language. Compare phoneme.
  • spencer gulf — an inlet of the Indian Ocean in S Australia, between the Eyre and Yorke Peninsulas. Length: about 320 km (200 miles). Greatest width: about 145 km (90 miles)
  • spermagonium — Botany, Mycology. spermogonium.
  • spermogonium — one of the cup-shaped or flask-shaped receptacles in which the spermatia of certain fungi and red algae are produced.
  • spiderhunter — any of several sunbirds of the genus Arachnothera, of southern Asia and the East Indies, having dull-colored plumage and a long bill.
  • spinulescent — producing spines
  • spitefulness — full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: a spiteful child.
  • splatterpunk — a form of fiction featuring extremely graphic violence.
  • spur gearing — a system of spur gears.
  • sputteringly — in a sputtering manner
  • square piano — a piano with a rectangular, horizontal body.
  • stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
  • stenophagous — (of an animal) feeding on a limited variety of foods (opposed to euryphagous).
  • stirrup bone — the stapes, one of the three bones of the middle ear
  • student lamp — a table lamp whose light source can be adjusted in height.
  • stumpknocker — spotted sunfish.
  • stunt person — a stunt man or stunt woman.
  • stupefacient — stupefying; producing stupor.
  • stupefaction — the state of being stupefied; stupor.
  • stupefyingly — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
  • stupendously — causing amazement; astounding; marvelous: stupendous news.
  • subcomponent — a constituent part; element; ingredient.
  • subinspector — a secondary or assistant inspector
  • sucker punch — to strike (someone) with an unexpected blow.
  • sucker-punch — to strike (someone) with an unexpected blow.
  • suet pudding — a pudding made of chopped beef suet and flour, boiled or steamed in a cloth, often with other ingredients, as raisins, spices, etc.
  • sulphadoxine — an antibiotic drug of the sulphonamide group, commonly used in combination with pyrimethamine to treat malaria, and in combination with various drugs to treat certain infections
  • sulphonamide — any of a class of organic compounds that are amides of sulphonic acids containing the group –SO2NH2 or a group derived from this. An important class of sulphonamides are the sulfa drugs
  • sumphishness — stupidity, sulkiness
  • sunday paper — a newspaper which is only published on Sundays
  • sunnyside up — (of an egg) fried without breaking the yolk or being turned over, with the yolk remaining visible and somewhat liquid inside.
  • super-urgent — compelling or requiring immediate action or attention; imperative; pressing: an urgent matter.
  • superannuate — to allow to retire from service or office on a pension because of age or infirmity.
  • supercabinet — a specially-formed cabinet, a select or powerful group of political ministers (cabinet)
  • superconduct — to conduct electricity very efficiently or without resistance, to act as a superconductor
  • supercooling — to cool (a liquid) below its freezing point without producing solidification or crystallization; undercool.
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