12-letter words containing p, a, r, i
- spirituality — the quality or fact of being spiritual.
- spiritualize — to make spiritual.
- spirochaetal — resulting from spirochaetes
- spit-roasted — cooked on a spit
- sporadically — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- sporangiolum — a small sporangium
- sportability — suitability to be used in or as a sport
- spray millet — the seeds of millet left on the spike and sold in pet shops for cage birds.
- spring break — a vacation from school or college during the spring term, lasting about a week.
- spring catch — a catch for an interior or cabinet door that has a bolt operated by a spring.
- spring water — water from natural underground source
- spring-clean — to subject (a place) to a spring-cleaning.
- spur gearing — a system of spur gears.
- square piano — a piano with a rectangular, horizontal body.
- stabilograph — an instrument for measuring body sway.
- state prison — a prison maintained by a state for the confinement of felons.
- stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
- 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.
- stirrup-vase — a Mycenaean vase having a spherical body, a spout on the shoulder, and a handle, curving across the top, supported by a solid conical neck.
- straight pin — pin (sense 2)
- stratigraphy — a branch of geology dealing with the classification, nomenclature, correlation, and interpretation of stratified rocks.
- 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.
- strike plate — strike (def 67).
- strip-search — to search (a suspect who has been required to remove all clothing) especially for concealed weapons, contraband, or evidence of drug abuse.
- striped bass — an important American game fish, Morone saxatilis, having blackish stripes along each side.
- strophanthin — a very poisonous, bitter glycoside or mixture of glycosides obtained from the dried, ripe seeds of a strophanthus, especially Strophanthus kombe, used as a cardiac stimulant.
- strophiolate — having a strophiole
- 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.
- subepidermal — just below the epidermis or skin
- sublapsarian — infralapsarianism.
- subprincipal — an assistant or deputy principal.
- sudoriparous — producing or secreting sweat.
- sukarnoputri — Megawati (ˈmɛɡəˌwɒtɪ). born 1947, Indonesian politician; president of Indonesia (2001–04): daughter of Achmed Sukarno
- 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.
- supercarrier — a large aircraft carrier
- superciliary — of or relating to the eyebrow.
- superelastic — capable of returning to its original length, shape, etc., after being stretched, deformed, compressed, or expanded: an elastic waistband; elastic fiber.
- superglacial — on the surface of a glacier.
- supergravity — a hypothetical symmetry among groups of particles containing fermions and bosons, especially in theories of gravity (supergravity) that unify electromagnetism, the weak force, and the strong force with gravity into a single unified force.
- superheating — Superheating of steam is raising its temperature to well above boiling point.
- superhelical — of, relating to, or consisting of a superhelix
- superhighway — a highway designed for travel at high speeds, having more than one lane for each direction of traffic, a safety strip dividing the two directions, and cloverleaves to route the traffic on and off the highway. Compare expressway.
- superluminal — appearing to travel faster than the speed of light.
- supermassive — (of a black hole or star) having a mass in the range of millions or billions of times that of the sun
- supermaxilla — the upper jaw.
- superordinal — relating to the superorder