12-letter words containing s, c, o, r, p
- subopercular — of or relating to the suboperculum
- suboperculum — a bone in fishes behind the operculum or gill covering
- subscription — a sum of money given or pledged as a contribution, payment, investment, etc.
- supercilious — haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression.
- superconduct — to conduct electricity very efficiently or without resistance, to act as a superconductor
- supercooling — to cool (a liquid) below its freezing point without producing solidification or crystallization; undercool.
- superorganic — of or relating to the structure of cultural elements within society conceived as independent of and superior to the individual members of society.
- supplicatory — to pray humbly; make humble and earnest entreaty or petition.
- synchroscope — an instrument for determining the difference in phase between two related motions, as those of two aircraft engines or two electric generators.
- 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.
- the scorpion — the constellation Scorpio, the eighth sign of the zodiac
- thoracoscope — an instrument used for examining the pleural cavity
- top security — ultra secure
- tracheoscopy — examination of the interior of the trachea, as with a laryngoscope.
- transpicuous — transparent.
- tricephalous — with three heads
- tropicalised — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- troposcatter — the scattering or extended propagation of radio signals using the local irregularities in the Earth's troposphere
- 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.
- unit process — any of a number of standard operations, such as filtration or distillation, that are widely used in various chemical and process industries
- unscrupulous — not scrupulous; unrestrained by scruples; conscienceless; unprincipled.
- upper school — a scholastic division, especially in a private school, including the terminal secondary grades.
- urethroscope — an apparatus for observing the urethra.
- urethroscopy — observation of the urethra by a urethroscope.
- vaporescence — production or formation of vapor.
- vector space — an additive group in which addition is commutative and with which is associated a field of scalars, as the field of real numbers, such that the product of a scalar and an element of the group or a vector is defined, the product of two scalars times a vector is associative, one times a vector is the vector, and two distributive laws hold.
- velcro strip — a strip or roll of Velcro, able to be cut to the required length
- victory ship — a fast, turbine-powered cargo ship of World War II, having a capacity of about 11,000 dead-weight tons.
- whipscorpion — any of numerous arachnids of the order Uropygi, of tropical and warm temperate regions, resembling a scorpion but having an abdomen that ends in a slender, nonvenomous whip.
- woodchippers — Plural form of woodchipper.
- woodchoppers — Plural form of woodchopper.
- yachtsperson — A yachtsman or yachtswoman.