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12-letter words containing p, a, n, e

  • stereoptican — a projector usually consisting of two complete lanterns arranged so that one picture appears to dissolve while the next is forming.
  • stop payment — an order by the drawer of a check to his or her bank not to pay a specified check.
  • strepitation — the quality or state of being strepitant
  • stride piano — a style of jazz piano playing in which the right hand plays the melody while the left hand plays a single bass note or octave on the strong beat and a chord on the weak beat, developed in Harlem during the 1920s, partly from ragtime piano playing.
  • student lamp — a table lamp whose light source can be adjusted in height.
  • stupefacient — stupefying; producing stupor.
  • stupefaction — the state of being stupefied; stupor.
  • sulphadoxine — an antibiotic drug of the sulphonamide group, commonly used in combination with pyrimethamine to treat malaria, and in combination with various drugs to treat certain infections
  • sulphonamide — any of a class of organic compounds that are amides of sulphonic acids containing the group –SO2NH2 or a group derived from this. An important class of sulphonamides are the sulfa drugs
  • sunday paper — a newspaper which is only published on Sundays
  • superannuate — to allow to retire from service or office on a pension because of age or infirmity.
  • supercabinet — a specially-formed cabinet, a select or powerful group of political ministers (cabinet)
  • superfrontal — a piece of cloth placed over an altar and frontal and hanging down a few inches over the front of the altar
  • superheating — Superheating of steam is raising its temperature to well above boiling point.
  • superluminal — appearing to travel faster than the speed of light.
  • supermundane — above and beyond the nature or character of the worldly or terrestrial.
  • supernacular — relating to supernaculum
  • supernaculum — a highly regarded liquor, to be drunk to the very last drop
  • supernatural — of, relating to, or being above or beyond what is natural; unexplainable by natural law or phenomena; abnormal.
  • superordinal — relating to the superorder
  • superorganic — of or relating to the structure of cultural elements within society conceived as independent of and superior to the individual members of society.
  • supersensual — beyond the range of the senses.
  • superstation — an independent television station whose signal is transmitted by satellite to subscribers on a cable system.
  • supplemental — supplementary.
  • supramundane — transcending the world
  • suspensorial — relating to a suspensorium
  • swine plague — hemorrhagic septicemia of hogs, caused by the bacterium Pasteurella suiseptica, characterized by an accompanying infection of pneumonia.
  • sycophantize — to act the sycophant
  • synadelphite — an arsenate containing manganese and aluminium
  • take part in — join in
  • take pity on — show compassion, mercy
  • tape editing — the process of putting the various segments of a master video or audio tape into a predetermined sequence: usually done electronically.
  • tape machine — a tape recorder.
  • 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.
  • telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
  • telegraphone — an early magnetic sound-recording device for use with wire, tape, or disks.
  • temporaneous — lasting a short while
  • temptational — the act of tempting; enticement or allurement.
  • tenths-place — next after ninth; being the ordinal number for ten.
  • tepexpan man — an early human known from skeletal remains found near Tepexpán, Mexico, and dating c10,000–8000 b.c.
  • test pattern — a geometric design broadcast to receivers for testing the quality of transmission, often identifying the transmitting station and channel.
  • tetrapolitan — of or related to a tetrapolis
  • 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 passions — feeling, as opposed to reason
  • the pentagon — a five-sided building in Arlington, Va., in which the main offices of the U.S. Department of Defense are located; hence, the U.S. military establishment
  • the-persians — a tragedy (472 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
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