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12-letter words containing p, o, e, t, r

  • repeat order — request to buy sth again
  • reperforator — (especially in teletype transmission) a machine for punching a duplicate perforated paper tape of incoming messages so that they may later be retransmitted: used for automatic typesetting.
  • rephotograph — to photograph again
  • replantation — to plant again.
  • repopulation — the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area.
  • report stage — the stage preceding the third reading in the passage of a bill through Parliament, at which the bill, as amended in committee, is reported back to the chamber considering it
  • repositorium — a place for the storage of valuables, as in an ancient Roman temple or a church.
  • reprioritize — to arrange or do in order of priority: learning to prioritize our assignments.
  • reproduction — the act or process of reproducing.
  • reproductive — serving to reproduce.
  • repromulgate — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
  • reproportion — comparative relation between things or magnitudes as to size, quantity, number, etc.; ratio.
  • reputational — the estimation in which a person or thing is held, especially by the community or the public generally; repute: a man of good reputation.
  • request stop — a point on a route at which a bus will stop only if signalled to do so
  • resectoscope — a thin, hollow, flexible surgical instrument inserted through the urethra or vagina for use in the biopsy of tissue or the removal of lesions from the prostate gland, bladder, or uterus
  • respirometer — an instrument for measuring the extent of respiratory movement.
  • respirometry — the branch of medical science dealing with the measurement and analysis of respiration.
  • respondentia — a loan upon a ship's cargo, which is repaid with interest if the ship reaches its destination, and if the ship does not, the loan is not repaid
  • responsivity — the quality or state of being responsive.
  • resupination — a resupinate condition.
  • retail group — a group of companies under single ownership, which sell goods to individual customers
  • retrophiliac — someone who has a strong liking for things from the past
  • retropulsion — an abnormal tendency to walk backwards: a symptom of Parkinson's disease
  • retropulsive — of or relating to retropulsion
  • reupholstery — the materials used to cushion and cover furniture.
  • rhamphotheca — the horny covering of a bird's bill.
  • rheoreceptor — a receptor of fishes and aquatic amphibians stimulated by water currents.
  • rhythmopoeia — the art or process of composing, for example, music or poetry rhythmically
  • rocket plane — aircraft that launches rockets
  • rohnert park — a city in W California.
  • rotary press — a printing press in which the type or plates to be printed are fastened upon a rotating cylinder and are impressed on a continuous roll of moving paper.
  • rotten apple — You can use rotten apple to talk about a person who is dishonest and therefore causes a lot of problems for the group or organization they belong to.
  • router patch — a plywood panel patch with parallel sides and rounded ends.
  • run on empty — to be at a level of energy, creativity, etc. that is inadequate to sustain worthwhile activity or achievement
  • saint-tropez — a town in SE France, on the French Riviera: beach resort.
  • sales report — a periodical report made by a salesperson to a manager giving details of amounts sold, existing and new accounts, etc
  • 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.
  • self-support — the supporting or maintaining of oneself or itself without reliance on outside aid.
  • semitropical — subtropical.
  • separate out — filter, sift
  • sepher torah — a scroll of the Torah, typically of parchment, from which the designated Parashah is chanted or read on the prescribed days.
  • septentrions — the seven stars of the Plough
  • seropositive — showing a significant level of serum antibodies, or other immunologic marker in the serum, indicating previous exposure to the infectious agent being tested.
  • seropurulent — composed of or containing both serum and pus
  • serpentiform — shaped like a snake.
  • serpentinous — of the nature of serpentine; containing or consisting of serpentine
  • servitorship — the office or position of a servitor; the condition of being a servitor
  • share option — A share option is an opportunity for the employees of a company to buy shares at a special price.
  • sharp tongue — If you say that someone has a sharp tongue, you are critical of the fact that they say things which are unkind though often clever.
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