12-letter words containing p, o, s, i, t, n
- receptionist — a person employed to receive and assist callers, clients, etc., as in an office.
- reinspection — the act or process of reinspecting
- relationship — a connection, association, or involvement.
- 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.
- retropulsion — an abnormal tendency to walk backwards: a symptom of Parkinson's disease
- ribbon strip — ribbon (def 8).
- rustproofing — the process of making metal rustproof.
- saddle point — a point at which a function of two variables has partial derivatives equal to zero but at which the function has neither a maximum nor a minimum value.
- saint joseph — a city in NW Missouri, on the Missouri River.
- saint-tropez — a town in SE France, on the French Riviera: beach resort.
- salpingotomy — incision of a Fallopian tube.
- sample point — a possible result of an experiment, represented as a point.
- satanophobia — a morbid fear of the devil or Satan
- scalp lotion — A scalp lotion is a liquid medication for the treatment of scalp conditions and disorders.
- scapegoating — the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself.
- semideponent — (of a Latin verb) active in meaning but passive in form in the perfect tense
- septentrions — the seven stars of the Plough
- serpentiform — shaped like a snake.
- serpentinous — of the nature of serpentine; containing or consisting of serpentine
- share option — A share option is an opportunity for the employees of a company to buy shares at a special price.
- shipping ton — a unit of weight, equivalent to 2000 pounds (0.907 metric ton) avoirdupois (short ton) in the U.S. and 2240 pounds (1.016 metric tons) avoirdupois (long ton) in Great Britain.
- showstopping — Theater. a performer or performance that wins enthusiastic or prolonged applause.
- sign-posting — a post bearing a sign that gives information or guidance.
- silver point — the melting point of silver, equal to 960.8°C, used as a fixed point on the international temperature scale.
- sinanthropus — the genus to which Peking man was formerly assigned.
- siphonostele — a hollow tube of vascular tissue enclosing a pith and embedded in ground tissue.
- slopping out — In prisons where prisoners have to use buckets as toilets, slopping out is the practice in which they empty the buckets.
- slumpflation — a situation in which economic depression is combined with increasing inflation
- snapshotting — an informal photograph, especially one taken quickly by a handheld camera.
- somatotropin — a hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland, that stimulates growth in humans.
- somers point — a town in SE New Jersey.
- soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
- spanish foot — a carved pyramidal foot having fluted, concave sides usually ending in a scroll at the bottom.
- sparcstation — (computer) A family of workstations from Sun Microsystems based on the SPARC architecture. Models include the SPARCStation 1, 1+, SLC, SPARCStation ELC, IPX, SPARCStation 5, SPARCStation 10 and SPARCStation 20.
- speciational — relating to speciation
- speedboating — the act, practice, or sport of traveling in a speedboat.
- sphacelation — the process of mortification
- spiflication — rough treatment
- spin control — Slang. an attempt to give a bias to news coverage, especially of a political candidate or event.
- spinsterhood — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
- splenization — the transformation of something into a spleenlike tissue
- split second — a fraction of a second.
- splotchiness — the state or condition of being splotchy
- spongioblast — one of the primordial cells in the embryonic brain and spinal cord capable of developing into neuroglia.
- spongologist — a person who studies sponges
- sportfishing — fishing with a rod and reel for sport, especially for saltwater sport fish from a motorboat.
- sporting dog — one of any of several breeds of usually large dogs especially suited by size and training for hunting by pointing, flushing, and retrieving game and including the pointers, setters, retrievers, and spaniels.
- sporting gun — a gun intended for hunting