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12-letter words containing s, c, p, i

  • public goods — services such as national defence, law enforcement, and road building, that are for the benefit of, and available to, all members of the public
  • public house — British. a tavern.
  • public works — government-funded construction
  • pugnaciously — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
  • pumice stone — abrasive stone used for exfoliating
  • pumice-stone — Also called pumice stone. a porous or spongy form of volcanic glass, used as an abrasive.
  • pyrognostics — the characteristics of a mineral, such as fusibility and flame coloration, that are revealed by the application of heat
  • pyrosulfuric — of or derived from pyrosulfuric acid; disulfuric.
  • pyrotechnics — the art of making fireworks.
  • pyrotechnist — a person skilled in pyrotechnics, especially in the manufacture or use of fireworks.
  • quickstepped — Simple past tense and past participle of quickstep.
  • ramapithecus — a genus of extinct Miocene ape known from fossils found in India and Pakistan and formerly thought to be a possible human ancestor.
  • receivership — the condition of being in the hands of a receiver.
  • receptionism — the doctrine that in the communion service the communicant receives the body and blood of Christ but that the bread and wine are not transubstantiated.
  • receptionist — a person employed to receive and assist callers, clients, etc., as in an office.
  • reciprocates — to give, feel, etc., in return.
  • reinspection — the act or process of reinspecting
  • repercussion — an effect or result, often indirect or remote, of some event or action: The repercussions of the quarrel were widespread.
  • repercussive — causing repercussion; reverberating.
  • reprocessing — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
  • resipiscence — acknowledgment that one has been mistaken
  • respectively — in precisely the order given; sequentially.
  • respite care — Respite care is short-term care that is provided for very old or very sick people so that the person who usually cares for them can have a break.
  • rhizocarpous — having the root perennial but the stem annual, as perennial herbs.
  • risk capital — venture capital.
  • rock springs — a city in SW Wyoming.
  • rose campion — a plant, Lychnis coronaria, of the pink family, having reddish purple flowers, and leaves covered with whitish down.
  • rostropovich — Mstislav (Leopoldovich) [mis-tuh-slahv lee-uh-pohl-duh-vich;; Russian mstyi-slahf lyi-uh-pawl-duh-vyich] /ˈmɪs təˌslɑv ˌli əˈpoʊl də vɪtʃ;; Russian mstyɪˈslɑf lyɪ əˈpɔl də vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1927–2007, Soviet cellist and conductor (husband of Galina Vishnevskaya).
  • sapindaceous — belonging to the Sapindaceae, the soapberry family of plants.
  • scafell pike — a mountain in NW England, in Cumberland: highest peak in England. 3210 feet (978 meters).
  • scalp lotion — A scalp lotion is a liquid medication for the treatment of scalp conditions and disorders.
  • scampishness — the quality of being scampish
  • scapegoating — the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself.
  • scapegoatism — the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself.
  • scapulimancy — divination of the future by observation of the cracking of a mammal's scapula that has been heated by a fire or hot instrument.
  • scenographic — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
  • schappe silk — a yarn or fabric of or similar to spun silk.
  • schiaparelli — Elsa [el-sah] /ˈɛl sɑ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1973, French fashion designer, born in Italy.
  • schizocarpic — a dry, dehiscent fruit that at maturity splits into two or more one-seeded carpels.
  • schizophrene — a person with schizophrenia or one who tends toward schizophrenia
  • schizophytic — of or relating to a schizophyte
  • schizopodous — of or relating to a schizopod
  • science park — A science park is an area, usually linked to a university, where there are a lot of private companies, especially ones concerned with high technology.
  • scintigraphy — the process of producing a scintigram.
  • scissiparity — reproduction by one cell splitting into two
  • scissor jump — a type of jump involving a scissor-like movement of the legs
  • scolopendrid — any myriapod of the order Scolopendrida, including many large, poisonous centipedes.
  • scopes trial — John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
  • scopophiliac — the obtaining of sexual pleasure by looking at nude bodies, erotic photographs, etc.
  • scoptophilia — the obtaining of sexual pleasure by looking at nude bodies, erotic photographs, etc.
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