12-letter words containing p, u, r, e
- support hose — elastic stockings worn to reduce pressure on the veins of the leg, esp for people with varicose veins
- suppressedly — in a suppressed manner
- suppressible — to put an end to the activities of (a person, body of persons, etc.): to suppress the Communist and certain left-leaning parties.
- supramundane — transcending the world
- supraprotest — an acceptance or a payment of a bill by a third person after protest for nonacceptance or nonpayment by the drawee.
- suspensorial — relating to a suspensorium
- suspensorium — a part that supports or suspends, esp the mandibular suspensorium, which suspends the lower jaw from the skull
- take up arms — Usually, arms. weapons, especially firearms.
- take-up reel — (on a projector) the reel onto which the film is wound after it has been projected.
- tape measure — a long, flexible strip or ribbon, as of cloth or metal, marked with subdivisions of the foot or meter and used for measuring.
- target group — intended audience or customers
- tau particle — an unstable, negatively charged lepton with a mass of c. 1,777 MeV/c2 (or c. 3,490 times that of an electron) and a mean lifetime of 2.2 ×10-13 second
- te rauparaha — ?1768–1849, Māori warrior chief, head of the Ngāti Toa tribe and signatory to the Treaty of Waitangi; noted for his cunning and his prowess in battle, he is also credited with composing "Ka Mate", the All Blacks' usual pre-match haka
- 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.
- telautograph — a telegraphic device for reproducing handwriting, drawings, etc, the movements of an electromagnetically controlled pen at one end being transmitted along a line to a similar pen at the receiving end
- telecomputer — teleprocessing.
- téléphérique — a cableway
- teleutospore — a spore of certain rust fungi, which carries the fungus through the winter and which, on germination, produces the promycelium.
- 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 pictures — a cinema or film show
- the populars — cheap newspapers with mass circulation; the popular press
- theophrastus — 372?–287 b.c, Greek philosopher.
- therapeutics — a therapeutic substance.
- therapeutist — a person trained in the use of physical methods, as exercises, heat treatments, etc., in treating or rehabilitating the sick or wounded or helping patients overcome physical defects.
- thermocouple — a device that consists of the junction of two dissimilar metallic conductors, as copper and iron, in which an electromotive force is induced when the conductors are maintained at different temperatures, the force being related to the temperature difference: used to determine the temperature of a third substance by connecting it to the junction of the metals and measuring the electromotive force produced.
- tipper truck — a truck or lorry the rear platform of which can be raised at the front end to enable the load to be discharged by gravity
- tissue paper — a very thin, almost transparent paper used for wrapping delicate articles, covering illustrations in books, copying letters, etc.
- tomato puree — liquidized tomatoes
- top security — ultra secure
- torpedo tube — a tube through which a self-propelled torpedo is launched, usually by the explosion of a charge of powder.
- torture porn — a genre of horror films in which sadistic violence or torture is a central aspect of the plot
- trachypterus — a dealfish or ribbonfish
- transumptive — of or relating to transumption
- trepidatious — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
- tricephalous — with three heads
- tricuspidate — having three cusps or flaps.
- triple fugue — a fugue with a subject and two countersubjects developed simultaneously.
- trou-de-loup — a conical or pyramidal pit with a pointed stake fixed vertically in the center, rows of which are dug in front of a fortification to hinder an enemy's approach, formerly used chiefly against cavalry.
- trouble spot — an area in which trouble exists or is expected to develop: There are several diplomatic trouble spots in Central America.
- troubleproof — not easily disturbed, disabled, injured, or put out of working order.
- 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
- truck camper — a type of camper designed to be mounted on a pickup truck.
- trumpet call — a blast made by a trumpet that serves as a summons or call
- trumpet vine — trumpet creeper.
- trumpet-leaf — trumpets.
- trumpet-tree — a tropical American tree, Cecropia peltata, of the mulberry family, having hollow, jointed stems and branches used in making certain wind instruments.