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12-letter words containing o, s, t, e, p, l

  • spectatorial — a person who looks on or watches; onlooker; observer.
  • speleologist — the exploration and study of caves.
  • spermatocele — a swelling of the testicle
  • sphacelation — the process of mortification
  • spirochaetal — resulting from spirochaetes
  • splenization — the transformation of something into a spleenlike tissue
  • split second — a fraction of a second.
  • splotchiness — the state or condition of being splotchy
  • sponge cloth — any cloth loosely woven of coarse yarn to produce a spongy look or texture, especially one constructed in honeycomb weave.
  • spot welding — fusing metal
  • spotted tail — (Sinte-galeshka) 1833?–81, Brulé Sioux leader.
  • spotted wilt — a viral disease of plants, characterized by wilting and by brown, sunken spots and streaks on the stems and leaves.
  • stanley pool — a lake between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Congo-Brazzaville, formed by a widening of the River Congo. Area: 829 sq km (320 sq miles)
  • state police — a police force under state authority rather than under the authority of a city or county in the state.
  • stegophilist — a person who enjoys climbing up the outside of buildings
  • stepmotherly — related to or having the characteristics of a stepmother
  • stipulaceous — of, relating to, having, resembling, or living on stipules
  • stool pigeon — a pigeon used as a decoy.
  • storm petrel — any of several small, tube-nosed seabirds of the family Hydrobatidae, usually having black or sooty-brown plumage with a white rump.
  • streptolysin — a type of hemolysin produced by certain species of streptococcus.
  • streptosolen — a type of South American shrub grown for ornamental purposes, with orange trumpet-shaped flowers
  • strophiolate — having a strophiole
  • stupendously — causing amazement; astounding; marvelous: stupendous news.
  • super-polite — showing good manners toward others, as in behavior, speech, etc.; courteous; civil: a polite reply.
  • superfrontal — a piece of cloth placed over an altar and frontal and hanging down a few inches over the front of the altar
  • superovulate — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
  • suppletorily — supplying a deficiency.
  • telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
  • teleshopping — electronic shopping via videotex or other interactive information service.
  • teleutospore — a spore of certain rust fungi, which carries the fungus through the winter and which, on germination, produces the promycelium.
  • the olympics — the Olympic Games
  • the populars — cheap newspapers with mass circulation; the popular press
  • thiosulphate — any salt of thiosulphuric acid
  • to play safe — If you play safe or play it safe, you do not take any risks.
  • tradespeople — people engaged in trade, esp shopkeepers
  • transponible — capable of being transposed.
  • 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
  • tropicalised — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
  • 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
  • unhospitable — not hospitable
  • unpoliteness — the quality or state of being impolite
  • velcro strip — a strip or roll of Velcro, able to be cut to the required length
  • water pistol — a toy gun that shoots a stream of liquid.
  • whistle-stop — to campaign for political office by traveling around the country, originally by train, stopping at small communities to address voters.
  • wool stapler — a dealer in wool.
  • yachtspeople — Plural form of yachtsperson.
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