12-letter words containing p, i, e, d, r
- spindle tree — any of various shrubs or trees of the genus Euonymus, esp E. europaeus, of Europe and W Asia, typically having red fruits and yielding a hard wood formerly used in making spindles: family Celastraceae
- spinsterhood — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
- spirit guide — type of mystical guardian
- spiritedness — having or showing mettle, courage, vigor, liveliness, etc.: a spirited defense of poetry.
- spit-roasted — cooked on a spit
- 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.
- striped bass — an important American game fish, Morone saxatilis, having blackish stripes along each side.
- striped drum — a North American marine and freshwater sciaenid fish, Equetus pulcher, that utters a drumming sound
- study period — a period of time or lesson used for studying
- subepidermal — just below the epidermis or skin
- superevident — extremely or very evident
- superimposed — (of a stream or drainage system) having a course not adjusted to the structure of the rocks presently undergoing erosion but determined rather by a prior erosion cycle or by formerly overlying rocks or sediments.
- superkingdom — in some systems of biological classification, either of the two major subdivisions, prokaryote or eukaryote, into which all living organisms can be placed
- superordinal — relating to the superorder
- supply-sider — a person, especially an economist, who advocates supply-side economics.
- table tripod — a low mount or stand for a camera.
- 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.
- time-expired — (of a cheque) that has lapsed and is no longer valid
- top dressing — tennis court
- 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.
- trial period — time during which sth can be evaluated
- tricuspidate — having three cusps or flaps.
- triple-digit — being in the hundreds or in a figure or amount from 100 through 999: triple-digit budget figures.
- tropicalised — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- tropicalized — 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.
- tutor period — (in British secondary schools) a school period for which a tutor group comes together with their tutor
- twisted pair — A twisted pair is a pair of wires that are twisted together to reduce interference.
- twitterpated — excited or overcome by romantic feelings; smitten.
- un-disrupted — to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
- undeciphered — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- under-script — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
- underexploit — to make insufficient use of
- underlapping — to extend partly under.
- underpassion — an underlying or subconscious passion
- underpinning — a system of supports beneath a wall or the like.
- underpricing — the state of being priced at too low a level or amount
- underspecify — to mention or name specifically or definitely; state in detail: He did not specify the amount needed.
- undespairing — not despairing; not giving in to despair
- unimportuned — without being forced or impelled
- unimprisoned — not confined in a prison
- united party — (formerly, in South Africa) the major opposition party, founded by General Smuts in 1934: the official Opposition in Parliament from 1948, the party was disbanded in 1977
- unpatronized — having few or no patrons
- unpredicated — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
- unpredictive — of or relating to prediction: losing one's predictive power.
- unprejudiced — not prejudiced; without preconception; unbiased; impartial: the unprejudiced view of the judge.
- unprescribed — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
- unpretending — unpretentious; genuine