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12-letter words containing o, p, e, r, a, s

  • speakerphone — a telephone or telephone attachment equipped with both loudspeaker and microphone, thus permitting the instrument to be used without being held.
  • special sort — a character, such as an accented letter, that is not a usual member of any font
  • spectatorial — a person who looks on or watches; onlooker; observer.
  • spectrograph — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
  • 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.
  • spermatocele — a swelling of the testicle
  • spermatocide — spermicide.
  • spermatocyte — a male germ cell (primary spermatocyte) that gives rise by meiosis to a pair of haploid cells (secondary spermatocytes) that give rise in turn to spermatids.
  • spermatozoid — a motile male gamete produced in an antheridium.
  • 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.
  • spirochaetal — resulting from spirochaetes
  • spit-roasted — cooked on a spit
  • sponged ware — spongeware.
  • sport jacket — A sport jacket is the same as a sport coat.
  • sportscaster — A sportscaster is a radio or television broadcaster who describes or comments on sporting events.
  • square piano — a piano with a rectangular, horizontal body.
  • 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
  • stegocarpous — (of a moss) belonging to the division Stegocarpi, having an operculate capsule
  • stenographer — a person who specializes in taking dictation in shorthand.
  • stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
  • stereography — the art of delineating the forms of solid bodies on a plane.
  • stereoptican — a projector usually consisting of two complete lanterns arranged so that one picture appears to dissolve while the next is forming.
  • stratosphere — the region of the upper atmosphere extending upward from the tropopause to about 30 miles (50 km) above the earth, characterized by little vertical change in temperature.
  • strep throat — an acute sore throat caused by hemolytic streptococci and accompanied by fever and prostration.
  • 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.
  • strophiolate — having a strophiole
  • subopercular — of or relating to the suboperculum
  • supererogate — to do more than duty requires.
  • 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.
  • superovulate — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
  • superpatriot — a person who is patriotic to an extreme.
  • superposable — to place above or upon something else, or one upon another.
  • superstardom — a person, as a performer or athlete, who enjoys wide recognition, is esteemed for exceptional talent, and is eagerly sought after for his or her services.
  • superstation — an independent television station whose signal is transmitted by satellite to subscribers on a cable system.
  • support area — a minimum price below which a specific stock is not supposed to fall, as because of the stock's inherent worth.
  • supraprotest — an acceptance or a payment of a bill by a third person after protest for nonacceptance or nonpayment by the drawee.
  • suspensorial — relating to a suspensorium
  • telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
  • temporaneous — lasting a short while
  • tetrapterous — Zoology. having four wings or winglike appendages.
  • the populars — cheap newspapers with mass circulation; the popular press
  • theophrastus — 372?–287 b.c, Greek philosopher.
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