12-letter words containing p, a, t, r, i, s
- therapeutist — a person trained in the use of physical methods, as exercises, heat treatments, etc., in treating or rehabilitating the sick or wounded or helping patients overcome physical defects.
- tissue paper — a very thin, almost transparent paper used for wrapping delicate articles, covering illustrations in books, copying letters, etc.
- tourist trap — a place, as a restaurant, shop, or hotel, that exploits tourists by overcharging.
- trading post — a store established in an unsettled or thinly settled region by a trader or trading company to obtain furs and local products in exchange for supplies, clothing, other goods, or for cash.
- trainspotter — A trainspotter is someone who is very interested in trains and spends time going to stations and recording the numbers of the trains that they see.
- transit camp — a camp in which refugees, soldiers, etc, live temporarily before moving to another destination
- transit stop — a stop made by a vehicle such as an aircraft, train or bus on the way to its final destination
- transpacific — passing or extending across the Pacific.
- transpicuous — transparent.
- transpirable — to occur; happen; take place.
- transponible — capable of being transposed.
- transpontine — across or beyond a bridge.
- transportive — to carry, move, or convey from one place to another.
- transumption — an act of metaphorical transference
- transumptive — of or relating to transumption
- trapshooting — the sport of shooting at clay pigeons hurled into the air from a trap.
- trepidations — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- trepidatious — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
- tricephalous — with three heads
- 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
- unscriptural — not scriptural
- upright bass — double bass
- vanity press — a printing house that specializes in publishing books for which the authors pay all or most of the costs.
- vespertilian — of, relating to, or resembling a bat
- 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.
- west prussia — a former province of Prussia: since 1945 part of Poland.
- williamsport — a city in central Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River.
- zip fastener — a zipper.