12-letter words containing o, s, p, r, e
- suspensorial — relating to a suspensorium
- suspensorium — a part that supports or suspends, esp the mandibular suspensorium, which suspends the lower jaw from the skull
- synchroscope — an instrument for determining the difference in phase between two related motions, as those of two aircraft engines or two electric generators.
- tech support — an advising and troubleshooting service provided by a manufacturer, typically a software or hardware developer, to its customers, often online or on the telephone.
- telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
- teleutospore — a spore of certain rust fungi, which carries the fungus through the winter and which, on germination, produces the promycelium.
- temporaneous — lasting a short while
- tetrapterous — Zoology. having four wings or winglike appendages.
- the bosporus — a strait between European and Asian Turkey, linking the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara
- the pointers — the two brightest stars in the Plough (Dubhe and Merak), which lie in the direction pointing towards the Pole Star and are therefore used to locate it
- the populars — cheap newspapers with mass circulation; the popular press
- the prophets — one of the three major divisions of the Jewish Holy Scriptures, following the Pentateuch and preceding the Hagiographa
- the scorpion — the constellation Scorpio, the eighth sign of the zodiac
- the-pioneers — a historical novel (1823) by James Fenimore Cooper.
- theophrastus — 372?–287 b.c, Greek philosopher.
- thermosiphon — an arrangement of siphon tubes that enables water in a heating apparatus to circulate by means of convection.
- thermosphere — the region of the upper atmosphere in which temperature increases continuously with altitude, encompassing essentially all of the atmosphere above the mesosphere.
- third person — the grammatical person used by the speaker of an utterance in referring to anyone or anything other than the speaker or the one (third person singular) or ones (third person plural) being addressed.
- thoracoscope — an instrument used for examining the pleural cavity
- top dressing — tennis court
- top security — ultra secure
- top sergeant — a first sergeant.
- torreys peak — a mountain in central Colorado, in the Front Range, in the E Rocky Mountains. 14,267 feet (4349 meters).
- tracheoscopy — examination of the interior of the trachea, as with a laryngoscope.
- tradespeople — people engaged in trade, esp shopkeepers
- tradesperson — a skilled worker
- trainspotter — A trainspotter is someone who is very interested in trains and spends time going to stations and recording the numbers of the trains that they see.
- trans person — a person who is transgender or transsexual.
- transponible — capable of being transposed.
- transpontine — across or beyond a bridge.
- transportive — to carry, move, or convey from one place to another.
- tree sparrow — a Eurasian bird, Passer montanus, related to but smaller than the house sparrow.
- trepidations — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- trepidatious — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
- tribespeople — members of a tribe; people living a tribal lifestyle
- tricephalous — with three heads
- triphosphate — a salt derived from triphosphoric acid.
- tropicalised — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- troposcatter — the scattering or extended propagation of radio signals using the local irregularities in the Earth's troposphere
- trouble spot — an area in which trouble exists or is expected to develop: There are several diplomatic trouble spots in Central America.
- trouser clip — a clip that is worn around the bottom of a trouser leg to stop the material getting caught in the chain of a bicycle
- un-purposely — intentionally; deliberately: He tripped me purposely.
- underexposed — If a photograph is underexposed, it is darker than it should be because the film was not exposed to enough light.
- underpassion — an underlying or subconscious passion
- unimprisoned — not confined in a prison
- unit process — any of a number of standard operations, such as filtration or distillation, that are widely used in various chemical and process industries
- unoppressive — not cruel or harsh
- unpersonable — of pleasing personal appearance; handsome or comely; attractive.
- unprosperous — having or characterized by financial success or good fortune; flourishing; successful: a prosperous business.