12-letter words containing p, o, s, l
- teleshopping — electronic shopping via videotex or other interactive information service.
- teleutospore — a spore of certain rust fungi, which carries the fungus through the winter and which, on germination, produces the promycelium.
- the olympics — the Olympic Games
- the populars — cheap newspapers with mass circulation; the popular press
- thiosulphate — any salt of thiosulphuric acid
- to play host — If a person or country plays host to an event or an important visitor, they host the event or the visit.
- to play safe — If you play safe or play it safe, you do not take any risks.
- to talk shop — If you say that people are talking shop, you mean that they are talking about their work, and this is boring for other people who do not do the same work.
- tradespeople — people engaged in trade, esp shopkeepers
- transponible — capable of being transposed.
- triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
- tribespeople — members of a tribe; people living a tribal lifestyle
- tricephalous — with three heads
- trophallaxis — (among social insects) the exchange of nutriments or other secretions between members of a colony.
- tropicalised — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- tropophilous — adapted to a climate characterized by marked environmental changes.
- trouble spot — an area in which trouble exists or is expected to develop: There are several diplomatic trouble spots in Central America.
- 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
- turbo pascal — (language, product) Borland International's Pascal. Perhaps the first integrated development environment for MS-DOS. Versions 1.0-3.0: standard Pascal with a few extensions Versions 4.0 (1987) and 5.0: separate compilation. Version 5.5: object-oriented. Version 6.0: Turbo Vision OOP library.
- un-purposely — intentionally; deliberately: He tripped me purposely.
- uncomposable — not fit for composition
- unhospitable — not hospitable
- unpersonable — of pleasing personal appearance; handsome or comely; attractive.
- unpolishable — incapable of being made smooth or shiny
- unpoliteness — the quality or state of being impolite
- unscrupulous — not scrupulous; unrestrained by scruples; conscienceless; unprincipled.
- unsupposable — not able to be supposed
- unworshipful — not worshipful; not showing reverence or admiration
- upper school — a scholastic division, especially in a private school, including the terminal secondary grades.
- uproariously — characterized by or in a state of uproar; tumultuous.
- velcro strip — a strip or roll of Velcro, able to be cut to the required length
- visuospatial — pertaining to perception of the spatial relationships among objects within the field of vision.
- voluptuosity — full of, characterized by, or ministering to indulgence in luxury, pleasure, and sensuous enjoyment: a voluptuous life.
- wages policy — a government policy setting wages and wage increases for workers, for example, setting minimum wage requirements
- water pistol — a toy gun that shoots a stream of liquid.
- well-exposed — left or being without shelter or protection: The house stood on a windy, exposed cliff.
- whistle-stop — to campaign for political office by traveling around the country, originally by train, stopping at small communities to address voters.
- williamsport — a city in central Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River.
- wool stapler — a dealer in wool.
- world spirit — (often initial capital letters) God.
- worlds apart — in different environments
- worshipfully — In a worshipful manner; reverentially.
- yachtspeople — Plural form of yachtsperson.
- yellow pages — Network Information Service