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12-letter words containing p, a, c, t

  • starter pack — a pack containing basic equipment or information
  • state police — a police force under state authority rather than under the authority of a city or county in the state.
  • steeplechase — a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
  • stegocarpous — (of a moss) belonging to the division Stegocarpi, having an operculate capsule
  • stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
  • stereoptican — a projector usually consisting of two complete lanterns arranged so that one picture appears to dissolve while the next is forming.
  • stipulaceous — of, relating to, having, resembling, or living on stipules
  • stocking cap — a long, conical, knitted cap, usually with a tassel or pompon at the tip.
  • stomach pump — a suction pump for removing the contents of the stomach, used especially in cases of poisoning.
  • strip-search — to search (a suspect who has been required to remove all clothing) especially for concealed weapons, contraband, or evidence of drug abuse.
  • stupefacient — stupefying; producing stupor.
  • stupefaction — the state of being stupefied; stupor.
  • stupefactive — serving to stupefy.
  • stylographic — of or relating to a stylograph.
  • sub-tropical — Sub-tropical places have a climate that is warm and wet, and are often near tropical regions.
  • subapostolic — of or relating to the era after that of the Apostles
  • subduplicate — of the square root of ratios
  • suboccipital — situated below the occipital bone or the occipital lobe of the brain.
  • subspecialty — a lesser or minor specialty: a cinematographer with a subspecialty of portrait photography.
  • suicide pact — an agreement between two or more people to commit suicide together.
  • supercabinet — a specially-formed cabinet, a select or powerful group of political ministers (cabinet)
  • supercapital — a member situated between a capital and the spring of an arch, as a dosseret.
  • superelastic — capable of returning to its original length, shape, etc., after being stretched, deformed, compressed, or expanded: an elastic waistband; elastic fiber.
  • superplastic — (of some metals and alloys) having the capacity to undergo extreme deformation at high temperatures.
  • supplication — an act or instance of supplicating; humble prayer, entreaty, or petition.
  • supplicatory — to pray humbly; make humble and earnest entreaty or petition.
  • supracrustal — relating to rocks that overlie the basement rock of the crust
  • swamp locust — water locust.
  • switch plate — a plate, usually of metal, ceramic, or plastic, covering a switch so that the knob or toggle protrudes.
  • sycophantish — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
  • sycophantism — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
  • sycophantize — to act the sycophant
  • tachyphrasia — a communication disorder involving rapid, unintelligible speech
  • tampico hemp — a stiff fiber obtained from the leaves of various species of Agave, as A. falcata or A. sisalana.
  • tape machine — a tape recorder.
  • tapioca snow — snow pellets.
  • target price — anticipated retail cost
  • tau particle — an unstable, negatively charged lepton with a mass of c. 1,777 MeV/c2 (or c. 3,490 times that of an electron) and a mean lifetime of 2.2 ×10-13 second
  • team captain — the captain of a sporting team
  • technography — the description and study of the arts and sciences in their geographical and ethnic distribution and historical development.
  • technophilia — a person who loves or is enthusiastic about advanced technology.
  • technophobia — abnormal fear of or anxiety about the effects of advanced technology.
  • tenths-place — next after ninth; being the ordinal number for ten.
  • terephthalic — relating to, designating, or derived from terephthalic acid or its derivatives
  • tetramorphic — (in art) of or related to a composite representation of the four evangelists' symbols
  • tezcatlipoca — an Aztec god.
  • the cenotaph — the monument in Whitehall, London, honouring the dead of both World Wars: designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens: erected in 1920
  • the pandects — a digest of Roman civil law in fifty books, compiled for the emperor Justinian in the 6th cent. a.d.; the Digest
  • the preacher — the author of Ecclesiastes or the book of Ecclesiastes
  • theanthropic — of or relating to both God or a god and human beings; both divine and human.
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