12-letter words containing p, e, r, s, c, o
- counterspies — Plural form of counterspy.
- counterstamp — a stamp added to a stamped paper or document as a qualifying mark.
- countertypes — Plural form of countertype.
- craftspeople — Craftspeople are people who make things skilfully with their hands.
- craftsperson — an artisan
- crepusculous — Alternative form of crepuscular.
- criosphinxes — Plural form of criosphinx.
- crop sprayer — a device for spraying crops
- crospovidone — Crospovidone is a substance used in tablets as a binder or disintegrant.
- cross potent — a cross with equal arms, each of which ends in a bar
- crosspatches — Plural form of crosspatch.
- cryopreserve — to preserve (living tissue) at a very low temperature
- cryptomerias — Plural form of cryptomeria.
- cryptomnesia — the reappearance of a suppressed or forgotten memory which is mistaken for a new experience
- cryptomnesic — of, relating to, or characterized by cryptomnesia
- cryptosystem — a system for encoding and decoding secret messages.
- cupuliferous — of or relating to the Cupuliferae family of trees which includes oak, hazel, chestnut, etc
- cyclosporine — a drug, produced by a fungus (Tolypocladium inflatum), that suppresses the T cells that reject foreign tissue after an organ transplant without suppressing other cells that fight infections and cancer
- decompressed — Simple past tense and past participle of decompress.
- decompresses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decompress.
- decompressor — a device for lowering motor engine compression
- demographics — data resulting from the science of demography; population statistics
- desaparecido — one who has disappeared: used, especially in Latin America, in referring to a person who has been secretly imprisoned or killed during a government's program of political suppression.
- descriptions — a statement, picture in words, or account that describes; descriptive representation.
- despotocracy — the rule by a despot or despots; the power of despots
- deuteroscopy — the second time of looking or considering
- directorship — a person or thing that directs.
- discographer — a person who compiles discographies.
- discomposure — the state of being discomposed; disorder; agitation; perturbation.
- discorporate — Having no material body.
- door scraper — a small horizontal bar fixed to the ground near a door where visitors can scrape mud from their shoes before entering
- dryopithecus — an extinct genus of generalized hominoids that lived in Europe and Africa during the Miocene Epoch and whose members are characterized by small molars and incisors.
- ectoparasite — an external parasite (opposed to endoparasite).
- electroscope — An instrument for detecting and measuring electricity, especially as an indication of the ionization of air by radioactivity.
- electrotypes — Plural form of electrotype.
- emancipators — Plural form of emancipator.
- escape route — way out: of situation
- executorship — The office or position of an executor.
- expectorants — Plural form of expectorant.
- 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.
- 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.
- gastroscopes — Plural form of gastroscope.
- gospel choir — a choir performing gospel music
- groupuscules — Plural form of groupuscule.