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

  • reproachless — irreproachable.
  • respondentia — a loan upon a ship's cargo, which is repaid with interest if the ship reaches its destination, and if the ship does not, the loan is not repaid
  • responsorial — of or relating to response; responsive
  • resupination — a resupinate condition.
  • rhabdosphere — a minute sphere made up of rhabdoliths
  • road sweeper — a person who sweeps roads
  • rose campion — a plant, Lychnis coronaria, of the pink family, having reddish purple flowers, and leaves covered with whitish down.
  • rose pogonia — a North American terrestrial orchid, Pogonia ophioglossoides, having a fragrant, usually solitary rose-pink or white flower.
  • roselle park — a borough in NE New Jersey.
  • rotary press — a printing press in which the type or plates to be printed are fastened upon a rotating cylinder and are impressed on a continuous roll of moving paper.
  • sage sparrow — a small gray finch, Amphispiza belli, of dry, brushy areas of western North America.
  • saint-tropez — a town in SE France, on the French Riviera: beach resort.
  • sales report — a periodical report made by a salesperson to a manager giving details of amounts sold, existing and new accounts, etc
  • saloonkeeper — a person who operates a saloon (sense 3)
  • sarrusophone — a metal double-reed wind instrument with a conical bore, related to the oboe and used especially in military bands.
  • scatter plot — a graphic representation of bivariate data as a set of points in the plane that have Cartesian coordinates equal to corresponding values of the two variates.
  • scenographic — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
  • schopenhauer — Arthur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1788–1860, German philosopher.
  • scopes trial — John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
  • scraperboard — scratchboard.
  • sea scorpion — scorpionfish.
  • season creep — the gradual changing in the length of the seasons, as demonstrated by earlier flowering of plants, etc, thought by many to be caused by climate change
  • seismography — the scientific measuring and recording of the shock and vibrations of earthquakes.
  • selenography — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
  • semi-popular — regarded with favor, approval, or affection by people in general: a popular preacher.
  • semitropical — subtropical.
  • separate out — filter, sift
  • sepher torah — a scroll of the Torah, typically of parchment, from which the designated Parashah is chanted or read on the prescribed days.
  • sexual spore — a spore formed after the fusion of gametes and an asexual spore is the result of asexual reproduction
  • shadow price — the calculated price of a good or service for which no market price exists
  • shamrock-pea — a trailing plant, Parochetus communis, of the legume family, native to Asia and east Africa, having shamrocklike leaves with a brown crescent at the base and pea-shaped, pink and blue flowers.
  • share option — A share option is an opportunity for the employees of a company to buy shares at a special price.
  • sharecropper — a tenant farmer who pays as rent a share of the crop.
  • 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.
  • sharpshooter — a person skilled in shooting, especially with a rifle.
  • shatterproof — designed or made to resist shattering: shatterproof glass in automobile windows.
  • shoe repairs — repairs to shoes
  • shop steward — commerce: union rep
  • shopbreaking — the act of breaking into a shop
  • shore patrol — (often initial capital letters) members of an organization in the U.S. Navy having police duties similar to those performed by military police. Abbreviation: SP.
  • shoulder pad — clothing: insert in shoulder
  • siderography — the art or technique of engraving on steel.
  • 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.
  • sloped roman — a roman (vertical) typeface, usually sans serif, i.e. without the small, decorative, terminal strokes with which some typefaces are designed. The typeface is made to slope (usually to the right), but not generally to the same degree as a true italic typeface
  • snobographer — a person who writes about snobs
  • snow leopard — a long-haired, leopardlike feline, Panthera (Uncia) uncia, of mountain ranges of central Asia, having a relatively small head and a thick, creamy-gray coat with rosette spots: an endangered species.
  • solar plexus — Also called celiac plexus. Anatomy. a network of nerves situated at the upper part of the abdomen, behind the stomach and in front of the aorta.
  • somatopleure — the double layer formed by the association of the upper layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the overlying ectoderm, functioning in the formation of the body wall and amnion.
  • soprano clef — a sign locating middle C on the bottom line of the staff.
  • spatter cone — a low, steep-sided volcanic cone built up of droplets or blobs of lava erupted from a fissure or vent.
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