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12-letter words containing p, o, t, s

  • suction stop — click1 (def 3).
  • sukarnoputri — Megawati (ˈmɛɡəˌwɒtɪ). born 1947, Indonesian politician; president of Indonesia (2001–04): daughter of Achmed Sukarno
  • 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.
  • super-smooth — dead-smooth.
  • superconduct — to conduct electricity very efficiently or without resistance, to act as a superconductor
  • supererogate — to do more than duty requires.
  • 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.
  • superpatriot — a person who is patriotic to an extreme.
  • superstardom — a person, as a performer or athlete, who enjoys wide recognition, is esteemed for exceptional talent, and is eagerly sought after for his or her services.
  • superstation — an independent television station whose signal is transmitted by satellite to subscribers on a cable system.
  • superstition — a belief or notion, not based on reason or knowledge, in or of the ominous significance of a particular thing, circumstance, occurrence, proceeding, or the like.
  • supervention — to take place or occur as something additional or extraneous (sometimes followed by on or upon).
  • 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.
  • support area — a minimum price below which a specific stock is not supposed to fall, as because of the stock's inherent worth.
  • support band — a band, pop group, rock group, etc not topping the bill
  • support hose — elastic stockings worn to reduce pressure on the veins of the leg, esp for people with varicose veins
  • supportingly — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
  • suppositious — formed from or growing out of supposition: suppositious evidence.
  • supraglottal — situated above the glottis
  • supraorbital — situated above the eye socket.
  • supraprotest — an acceptance or a payment of a bill by a third person after protest for nonacceptance or nonpayment by the drawee.
  • swamp locust — water locust.
  • sweet potato — a plant, Ipomoea batatas, of the morning glory family, grown for its sweet, edible, tuberous roots.
  • sycophantish — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
  • sycophantism — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
  • sycophantize — to act the sycophant
  • symptomatize — symptomize.
  • synaptosomal — pertaining to a synaptosome
  • talking shop — If you say that a conference or a committee is just a talking shop, you disapprove of it because nothing is achieved as a result of what is discussed.
  • tapioca snow — snow pellets.
  • tech support — an advising and troubleshooting service provided by a manufacturer, typically a software or hardware developer, to its customers, often online or on the telephone.
  • telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
  • 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.
  • tempest-tost — buffeted about, as by adversities.
  • temporaneous — lasting a short while
  • tetrapterous — Zoology. having four wings or winglike appendages.
  • the bosporus — a strait between European and Asian Turkey, linking the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara
  • the hoppings — an annual fair in Newcastle
  • the olympics — the Olympic Games
  • the passions — feeling, as opposed to reason
  • the pointers — the two brightest stars in the Plough (Dubhe and Merak), which lie in the direction pointing towards the Pole Star and are therefore used to locate it
  • the populars — cheap newspapers with mass circulation; the popular press
  • the prophets — one of the three major divisions of the Jewish Holy Scriptures, following the Pentateuch and preceding the Hagiographa
  • the scorpion — the constellation Scorpio, the eighth sign of the zodiac
  • the wop-wops — the backblocks; the back of beyond
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