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12-letter words containing o, p, s, n, i

  • silver spoon — spoon (def 16).
  • simple simon — a simpleton.
  • simplon pass — a pass over the Lepontine Alps in S Switzerland, between Brig (Switzerland) and Iselle (Italy). Height: 2009 m (6590 ft)
  • sinanthropus — the genus to which Peking man was formerly assigned.
  • sindonophany — the periodic exhibiting to the public of the shroud that the body of Christ is thought to have been wrapped in
  • siphonophore — any pelagic hydrozoan of the order Siphonophora, being a floating or swimming colony composed of polyps.
  • siphonostele — a hollow tube of vascular tissue enclosing a pith and embedded in ground tissue.
  • 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
  • smoking lamp — formerly, a lamp aboard ship for lighting pipes, now used figuratively to indicate when smoking is or is not allowed: The smoking lamp is lit.
  • snapshotting — an informal photograph, especially one taken quickly by a handheld camera.
  • snow pudding — a pudding, prepared by folding egg whites into a lemon gelatin mixture.
  • snowy mespil — a N American tree, Amelanchier Lamarckii, that produces small white flowers in spring
  • 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.
  • spaciousness — containing much space, as a house, room, or vehicle; amply large.
  • span loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
  • spanish foot — a carved pyramidal foot having fluted, concave sides usually ending in a scroll at the bottom.
  • spanish moss — an epiphytic plant, Tillandsia usneoides, of the southern U.S., having narrow, grayish leaves and growing in long festoons that drape the branches of trees.
  • 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.
  • speciational — relating to speciation
  • speciousness — apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible: specious arguments.
  • specksioneer — a whaler
  • speedboating — the act, practice, or sport of traveling in a speedboat.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • spinal block — spinal anesthesia.
  • spinning box — centrifugal box.
  • spinning rod — a flexible fishing rod, often made of fiberglass, used with a spinning reel.
  • spinsterhood — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
  • spiral-bound — having a spiral binding.
  • splenization — the transformation of something into a spleenlike tissue
  • split second — a fraction of a second.
  • splotchiness — the state or condition of being splotchy
  • spoil ground — an area within a body of water, especially in the sea, where dredged material is deposited.
  • spongicolous — relating to the skeleton of some marine animals
  • spongillafly — spongefly.
  • spongioblast — one of the primordial cells in the embryonic brain and spinal cord capable of developing into neuroglia.
  • spongologist — a person who studies sponges
  • sponsorships — a person who vouches or is responsible for a person or thing.
  • sporangiolum — a small sporangium
  • sporogenesis — the production of spores; sporogony.
  • 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
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