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12-letter words containing p, e, r, i, n

  • 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.
  • subinspector — a secondary or assistant inspector
  • supercabinet — a specially-formed cabinet, a select or powerful group of political ministers (cabinet)
  • supercooling — to cool (a liquid) below its freezing point without producing solidification or crystallization; undercool.
  • supereminent — of superior eminence, rank, or dignity; distinguished, conspicuous, or worthy of note above others.
  • superevident — extremely or very evident
  • superheating — Superheating of steam is raising its temperature to well above boiling point.
  • superheroine — a woman noted for courageous acts or nobility of character: Esther and other biblical heroines.
  • superkingdom — in some systems of biological classification, either of the two major subdivisions, prokaryote or eukaryote, into which all living organisms can be placed
  • superluminal — appearing to travel faster than the speed of light.
  • 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.
  • supersession — the act of superseding.
  • superstation — an independent television station whose signal is transmitted by satellite to subscribers on a cable system.
  • superstition — a belief or notion, not based on reason or knowledge, in or of the ominous significance of a particular thing, circumstance, occurrence, proceeding, or the like.
  • supervenient — to take place or occur as something additional or extraneous (sometimes followed by on or upon).
  • supervention — to take place or occur as something additional or extraneous (sometimes followed by on or upon).
  • suspensorial — relating to a suspensorium
  • suspensorium — a part that supports or suspends, esp the mandibular suspensorium, which suspends the lower jaw from the skull
  • take part in — join in
  • tetrapolitan — of or related to a tetrapolis
  • the pointers — the two brightest stars in the Plough (Dubhe and Merak), which lie in the direction pointing towards the Pole Star and are therefore used to locate it
  • the scorpion — the constellation Scorpio, the eighth sign of the zodiac
  • the-persians — a tragedy (472 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
  • the-pioneers — a historical novel (1823) by James Fenimore Cooper.
  • theanthropic — of or relating to both God or a god and human beings; both divine and human.
  • thermosiphon — an arrangement of siphon tubes that enables water in a heating apparatus to circulate by means of convection.
  • third person — the grammatical person used by the speaker of an utterance in referring to anyone or anything other than the speaker or the one (third person singular) or ones (third person plural) being addressed.
  • to open fire — If you open fire on someone, you start shooting at them.
  • top dressing — tennis court
  • tracing tape — (on a building site) one of several lines stretched between batter boards to outline the foundations.
  • tragelaphine — of or relating to a tragelaph
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • transumptive — of or relating to transumption
  • trephination — a small circular saw with a center pin mounted on a strong hollow metal shaft to which is attached a transverse handle: used in surgery to remove circular disks of bone from the skull.
  • trepidations — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
  • trichopteran — trichopterous.
  • trichopteron — trichopteran.
  • triple crown — an unofficial title held by a horse that wins the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, and the Belmont Stakes in a single season.
  • triple point — the particular temperature and pressure at which the solid, liquid, and gaseous phases of a given substance are all at equilibrium with one another.
  • trumpet vine — trumpet creeper.
  • trying plane — a plane with a long body for planing the edges of long boards
  • trypaflavine — acriflavine hydrochloride.
  • typing error — an error made while using a keyboard to write something
  • typing paper — paper for typing on
  • un-disrupted — to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
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