12-letter words containing p, c, o, s
- encompassing — Present participle of encompass.
- enhypostatic — relating to enhypostasia
- eosinophilic — (of a cell or its contents) readily stained by eosin.
- epidiascopes — Plural form of epidiascope.
- episcopacies — Plural form of episcopacy.
- episcopalian — An adherent of episcopacy.
- episcopalism — the belief that a Church should be governed by bishops
- episodically — In an episodic manner; in episodes.
- escape route — way out: of situation
- escapologist — An entertainer specializing in escaping from the confinement of such things as ropes, handcuffs, and chains.
- ethnopoetics — A poetical, linguistic and anthropological movement dealing with poetry written by, or in the style of, indigenous peoples.
- exceptionals — Plural form of exceptional.
- executorship — The office or position of an executor.
- expectations — Plural form of expectation.
- expectorants — Plural form of expectorant.
- explications — Plural form of explication.
- factory ship — a whaling ship equipped to process killed whales and to transport the oil and by-products.
- fiber optics — the branch of optics that deals with the transmission of light through transparent fibers, as in the form of pulses for the transmission of data or communications, or through fiber bundles for the transmission of images.
- fibre optics — optical fibre
- fluoroscoped — Simple past tense and past participle of fluoroscope.
- fluoroscopes — Plural form of fluoroscope.
- fluoroscopic — of or relating to the fluoroscope or fluoroscopy.
- foam plastic — a kind of light cellular plastic made by creating bubbles of gas in the liquid material and solidifying it: often used as an insulator
- focus puller — the member of a camera crew who adjusts the focus of the lens as the camera is tracked in or out
- fort pickens — Andrew, 1739–1817, American Revolutionary general.
- francophones — Plural form of francophone.
- frontispiece — an illustrated leaf preceding the title page of a book.
- galactoscope — a lactoscope.
- galvanoscope — an instrument for detecting the existence of an electric current and determining its direction.
- garrison cap — overseas cap.
- gastroscopes — Plural form of gastroscope.
- gastroscopic — Of or pertaining to gastroscopy.
- geophysicist — the branch of geology that deals with the physics of the earth and its atmosphere, including oceanography, seismology, volcanology, and geomagnetism.
- glockenspiel — a musical instrument composed of a set of graduated steel bars mounted in a frame and struck with hammers, used especially in bands.
- go to pieces — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
- gospel choir — a choir performing gospel music
- gospel music — a now popularized form of impassioned rhythmic spiritual music rooted in the solo and responsive church singing of rural blacks in the American South, central to the development of rhythm and blues and of soul music.
- groupuscules — Plural form of groupuscule.
- gymnocarpous — (of a fungus or lichen) having the apothecium open and attached to the surface of the thallus.
- hall process — a process in which aluminum is refined by electrolytic reduction of alumina fused with cryolite.
- harpsichords — Plural form of harpsichord.
- heckelphones — Plural form of heckelphone.
- helicographs — Plural form of helicograph.
- heliospheric — Of or pertaining to the heliosphere.
- hematocolpos — (medicine) A medical condition in which the vagina fills with menstrual blood, often caused by the combination of menstruation with an imperforate hymen.
- hemophiliacs — Plural form of hemophiliac.
- histographic — a treatise on or description of organic tissues.
- holophrastic — using or consisting of a single word that functions as a phrase or sentence.
- holopneustic — having all the spiracles open, as the tracheal systems of most insects.
- hotchpotches — Plural form of hotchpotch.