12-letter words containing p, a, r, i, s
- tricuspidate — having three cusps or flaps.
- triphosphate — a salt derived from triphosphoric acid.
- triple-space — to type (copy) so as to leave two full spaces between lines
- triumphalism — triumphant spirit or character.
- triumphalist — Triumphalist behaviour is behaviour in which politicians or organizations celebrate a victory or a great success, especially when this is intended to upset the people they have defeated.
- trophallaxis — (among social insects) the exchange of nutriments or other secretions between members of a colony.
- tropicalised — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- tryparsamide — a white, crystalline powder, C 8 H 10 O 4 N 2 AsNa·½H 2 , used chiefly in treating African sleeping sickness.
- twisted pair — A twisted pair is a pair of wires that are twisted together to reduce interference.
- typographist — a person skilled in the art of typography
- ultraprecise — extremely accurate
- unaspiringly — in an unambitious or unaspiring manner
- underpassion — an underlying or subconscious passion
- undespairing — not despairing; not giving in to despair
- unperishable — imperishable
- unpersuasive — not capable of persuading
- unscriptural — not scriptural
- upright bass — double bass
- uproariously — characterized by or in a state of uproar; tumultuous.
- valve spring — a helical spring used to hold closed a valve in the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine
- vanity press — a printing house that specializes in publishing books for which the authors pay all or most of the costs.
- vaporishness — the quality or state of being vaporish
- vespertilian — of, relating to, or resembling a bat
- wackyparsing — (Internet, slang) present participle of wackyparse.
- water pistol — a toy gun that shoots a stream of liquid.
- water spider — a Eurasian spider, Argyroneta aquatica, that spins a web in the form of an air-filled chamber in which it lives submerged in streams and ponds
- water sprite — a sprite or spirit inhabiting the water, as an undine.
- watermanship — the skill, duties, business, etc., of a waterman.
- weather ship — a ship equipped for meteorological observation.
- weatherstrip — A strip of rubber, metal, or other material used to seal the edges of a door or window against the cold.
- web scraping — the extraction and copying of data from a website into a structured format using a computer program: Hackers pose a threat with techniques like web scraping. Our search engine uses web scraping to index sites.
- west prussia — a former province of Prussia: since 1945 part of Poland.
- wild parsley — any of several uncultivated plants resembling the parsley in shape and structure.
- wild parsnip — a strong-smelling umbelliferous plant, Pastinaca sativa, that has an inedible root: the ancestor of the cultivated parsnip
- williamsport — a city in central Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River.
- wranglership — (at Cambridge University) the position of a wrangler
- zip fastener — a zipper.
- zoosporangia — Plural form of zoosporangium.