12-letter words containing p, l, e, c, t, r
- pyroelectric — pertaining to, subject to, or manifesting pyroelectricity.
- recapitalize — to renew or change the capital of.
- recapitulate — to review by a brief summary, as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize.
- receptacular — having the nature of, or serving as, a receptacle
- receptaculum — a vessel, receptacle or container
- respectfully — full of, characterized by, or showing politeness or deference: a respectful reply.
- respectively — in precisely the order given; sequentially.
- retail price — amount sth costs in shops
- retrophiliac — someone who has a strong liking for things from the past
- rocket plane — aircraft that launches rockets
- scatter plot — a graphic representation of bivariate data as a set of points in the plane that have Cartesian coordinates equal to corresponding values of the two variates.
- scopes trial — John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
- scratchplate — a plastic or metal plate attached to the front of a guitar to protect it from pick scratches
- self-respect — proper esteem or regard for the dignity of one's character.
- semitropical — subtropical.
- short splice — a splice used when an increased thickness of the united rope is not objectionable, made by unlaying the rope ends a certain distance, uniting them so that their strands overlap, then tucking each alternately over and under others several times.
- space travel — spaceflight of manned vehicles.
- special sort — a character, such as an accented letter, that is not a usual member of any font
- special term — the sitting of a court for the trial of a special case.
- spectatorial — a person who looks on or watches; onlooker; observer.
- speculatrice — a female speculator
- spermatocele — a swelling of the testicle
- sphericality — the state of being a sphere
- sphincterial — relating to a sphincter
- spirochaetal — resulting from spirochaetes
- split screen — Also called composite shot. Movies, Television. a type of process photography in which two or more shots are juxtaposed and projected simultaneously on the screen.
- split-screen — Split-screen is used to describe the technique in making films and television programmes in which two different pieces of film are shown at the same time.
- supercapital — a member situated between a capital and the spring of an arch, as a dosseret.
- supercluster — a cluster of open clusters.
- superculture — the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.
- superelastic — capable of returning to its original length, shape, etc., after being stretched, deformed, compressed, or expanded: an elastic waistband; elastic fiber.
- superplastic — (of some metals and alloys) having the capacity to undergo extreme deformation at high temperatures.
- tau particle — an unstable, negatively charged lepton with a mass of c. 1,777 MeV/c2 (or c. 3,490 times that of an electron) and a mean lifetime of 2.2 ×10-13 second
- telecomputer — teleprocessing.
- telepresence — the use of virtual reality technology to operate machinery by remote control or to create the effect of being at a different or imaginary location
- temper color — any of the colors appearing on the surface of clean, unoxidized steel heated in air, from pale yellow at the coolest to dark blue at the hottest: used as an approximate indication of temperature.
- terephthalic — relating to, designating, or derived from terephthalic acid or its derivatives
- thermocouple — a device that consists of the junction of two dissimilar metallic conductors, as copper and iron, in which an electromotive force is induced when the conductors are maintained at different temperatures, the force being related to the temperature difference: used to determine the temperature of a third substance by connecting it to the junction of the metals and measuring the electromotive force produced.
- thermophilic — growing best in a warm environment.
- till receipt — a receipt issued from a till
- trailer camp — an area where house trailers may be parked, usually having running water, electrical outlets, etc.
- tricephalous — with three heads
- triple cream — a fresh, soft cheese of France, containing at least 72 percent fat, made from cow's milk enriched with cream.
- 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-space — to type (copy) so as to leave two full spaces between lines
- tropicalised — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- tropicalized — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- trouser clip — a clip that is worn around the bottom of a trouser leg to stop the material getting caught in the chain of a bicycle
- trumpet call — a blast made by a trumpet that serves as a summons or call
- ultraprecise — extremely accurate