12-letter words containing p, u, t, s, c
- cryptonymous — having a code name or secret name
- cryptozygous — having the skull broad and the face narrow.
- cupid's dart — blue succory.
- cupid's-dart — blue succory.
- curtail step — the step or steps at the foot of a flight of stairs, widened at one or both ends and terminated with a scroll
- curtail-step — a horizontal, spiral termination to the lower end of a stair railing.
- decapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of decapsulate.
- deuteroscopy — the second time of looking or considering
- disculpating — Present participle of disculpate.
- drop biscuit — a biscuit made by dropping baking powder biscuit dough from a spoon onto a pan for baking.
- dryopithecus — an extinct genus of generalized hominoids that lived in Europe and Africa during the Miocene Epoch and whose members are characterized by small molars and incisors.
- duplications — Plural form of duplication.
- encapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of encapsulate.
- encapsulates — Enclose (something) in or as if in a capsule.
- escape chute — a fabric tube or chute hinged to the wall of a stairwell and used as an emergency exit, eg from a burning tall building
- escape route — way out: of situation
- eucalyptuses — Plural form of eucalyptus.
- executorship — The office or position of an executor.
- holopneustic — having all the spiracles open, as the tracheal systems of most insects.
- implicatures — Plural form of implicature.
- incapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of incapsulate.
- incapsulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incapsulate.
- insusceptive — insusceptible
- intussuscept — to take within, as one part of the intestine into an adjacent part; invaginate.
- lectureships — Plural form of lectureship.
- lumpectomies — Plural form of lumpectomy.
- macropterous — having long or large wings or fins.
- manuscriptal — (obsolete) Of or pertaining to manuscript.
- micropterous — (of certain animals, esp some types of ant) having small reduced wings
- mispunctuate — to punctuate incorrectly.
- mount scopus — a mountain in central Israel, east of Jerusalem: a N extension of the Mount of Olives; site of the Hebrew University (1925). Height: 834 m (2736 ft)
- mucopeptides — Plural form of mucopeptide.
- mucoproteins — Plural form of mucoprotein.
- multi-pascal — An extension of Pascal-S with multiprocessing features. Used in "The Art of Parallel Programming", Bruce P. Lester, P-H 1993.
- multispecies — of, relating to or affecting several species
- mustache cup — a cup having a straight piece inside, just below the rim, for holding back a man's mustache while he is drinking.
- mutton chops — side whiskers trimmed in the shape of chops, widening out from the temples
- neuroleptics — Plural form of neuroleptic.
- neuroplastic — Of or pertaining to neuroplasticity.
- neutrosophic — Neutrosophy
- octopetalous — containing or consisting of eight petals
- octosepalous — having or consisting of eight sepals
- open cluster — a comparatively young, irregularly shaped group of stars, often numbering up to several hundred, and held together by mutual gravitation; usually found along the central plane of the Milky Way and other galaxies.
- optoacoustic — relating to the relationship between light and sound
- oreopithecus — a genus of fossil primate from the Miocene coal deposits of Italy, formerly considered to be a possible hominid.
- outcroppings — Plural form of outcropping.
- outpouchings — Plural form of outpouching.
- particulates — very small particles of a substance, esp those that are produced when fuel is burned
- patroclinous — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).
- percutaneous — administered, removed, or absorbed by way of the skin, as an injection, needle biopsy, or transdermal drug.