12-letter words containing p, i, g, s, e
- stegophilist — a person who enjoys climbing up the outside of buildings
- stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
- stereotyping — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
- stool pigeon — a pigeon used as a decoy.
- stupefyingly — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
- suet pudding — a pudding made of chopped beef suet and flour, boiled or steamed in a cloth, often with other ingredients, as raisins, spices, etc.
- supercooling — to cool (a liquid) below its freezing point without producing solidification or crystallization; undercool.
- superglacial — on the surface of a glacier.
- supergravity — a hypothetical symmetry among groups of particles containing fermions and bosons, especially in theories of gravity (supergravity) that unify electromagnetism, the weak force, and the strong force with gravity into a single unified force.
- superheating — Superheating of steam is raising its temperature to well above boiling point.
- superhighway — a highway designed for travel at high speeds, having more than one lane for each direction of traffic, a safety strip dividing the two directions, and cloverleaves to route the traffic on and off the highway. Compare expressway.
- superkingdom — in some systems of biological classification, either of the two major subdivisions, prokaryote or eukaryote, into which all living organisms can be placed
- superorganic — of or relating to the structure of cultural elements within society conceived as independent of and superior to the individual members of society.
- swine plague — hemorrhagic septicemia of hogs, caused by the bacterium Pasteurella suiseptica, characterized by an accompanying infection of pneumonia.
- teleshopping — electronic shopping via videotex or other interactive information service.
- tempus fugit — time flies
- the hoppings — an annual fair in Newcastle
- top dressing — tennis court
- typing speed — the number of words someone can accurately type in one minute
- undespairing — not despairing; not giving in to despair
- unpleasingly — in an unpleasing manner
- unpossessing — having no possessions or ownership
- unprotesting — an expression or declaration of objection, disapproval, or dissent, often in opposition to something a person is powerless to prevent or avoid: a protest against increased taxation.
- unresponding — to reply or answer in words: to respond briefly to a question.
- unsuspecting — to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof: to suspect a person of murder.
- valve spring — a helical spring used to hold closed a valve in the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine
- wages policy — a government policy setting wages and wage increases for workers, for example, setting minimum wage requirements
- web scraping — the extraction and copying of data from a website into a structured format using a computer program: Hackers pose a threat with techniques like web scraping. Our search engine uses web scraping to index sites.
- whisperingly — In a whispering manner; quietly.
- winnipegosis — Lake, a lake in S Canada, in W Manitoba, W of Lake Winnipeg. 2086 sq. mi. (5405 sq. km).
- wranglership — (at Cambridge University) the position of a wrangler