12-letter words containing p, o, s, t, u, l
- sulphonation — the action or process of converting or being converted into a sulphonate
- super-polite — showing good manners toward others, as in behavior, speech, etc.; courteous; civil: a polite reply.
- superfrontal — a piece of cloth placed over an altar and frontal and hanging down a few inches over the front of the altar
- superovulate — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
- suppletorily — supplying a deficiency.
- supplication — an act or instance of supplicating; humble prayer, entreaty, or petition.
- supplicatory — to pray humbly; make humble and earnest entreaty or petition.
- supportingly — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- supraglottal — situated above the glottis
- supraorbital — situated above the eye socket.
- swamp locust — water locust.
- telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
- teleutospore — a spore of certain rust fungi, which carries the fungus through the winter and which, on germination, produces the promycelium.
- the populars — cheap newspapers with mass circulation; the popular press
- thiosulphate — any salt of thiosulphuric acid
- triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
- tricephalous — with three heads
- 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.
- unhospitable — not hospitable
- unpoliteness — the quality or state of being impolite
- 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.