12-letter words containing s, e, p, t, u, a
- postfracture — taking place after a fracture
- postgraduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
- pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
- premenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
- preslaughter — of the period before slaughter (of animals)
- proconsulate — the office or term of office of a proconsul.
- promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
- prosecutable — Law. to institute legal proceedings against (a person). to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process. to conduct criminal proceedings in court against.
- pseudomartyr — someone falsely or inaccurately called a martyr
- pterocarpous — having winged fruit.
- pterosaurian — a pterosaur
- pulp plaster — plaster containing shredded wood fiber.
- punta arenas — a seaport in S Chile, on the Strait of Magellan: the southernmost city in Chile. Formerly Magallanes.
- punxsutawney — a town in central Pennsylvania: Groundhog Day celebration.
- purchase tax — a sales tax on nonessential and luxury goods.
- purple state — a state of the U.S. in which the Democratic and Republican candidates both have a good chance of winning and that is considered key to the outcome of a presidential election: the swing states of Ohio and Indiana.
- put to shame — the painful feeling arising from the consciousness of something dishonorable, improper, ridiculous, etc., done by oneself or another: She was overcome with shame.
- put years on — to make (someone) feel or look much older
- pyrosulphate — any salt of pyrosulphuric acid
- quarterpipes — Plural form of quarterpipe.
- ramapithecus — a genus of extinct Miocene ape known from fossils found in India and Pakistan and formerly thought to be a possible human ancestor.
- reassumption — the act or process of reassuming something
- rescue party — a group of people who attempt to rescue, find or save a person or people for danger, esp a person or people who have got lost while mountain climbing
- resupination — a resupinate condition.
- rubber stamp — handheld printing tool
- rubber-stamp — to imprint with a rubber stamp.
- separate out — filter, sift
- septuagesima — the third Sunday before Lent.
- septuplicate — a group, series, or set of seven identical copies (usually preceded by in).
- serpentarium — a place where snakes are housed, especially for exhibition.
- sextuplicate — a group, series, or set of six identical copies: The application is to be submitted in sextuplicate.
- sharp tongue — If you say that someone has a sharp tongue, you are critical of the fact that they say things which are unkind though often clever.
- sitka spruce — a spruce, Picea sitchensis, of western North America, having long, silvery-white needles, grown as an ornamental.
- sivapithecus — a genus of extinct Miocene primates of Asia that resemble the modern orangutan.
- somatopleure — the double layer formed by the association of the upper layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the overlying ectoderm, functioning in the formation of the body wall and amnion.
- south platte — a river flowing NE from central Colorado to the Platte River in W Nebraska. 424 miles (683 km) long.
- speculatrice — a female speculator
- spiritualize — to make spiritual.
- splatterpunk — a form of fiction featuring extremely graphic violence.
- stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
- steatopygous — extreme accumulation of fat on and about the buttocks, especially of women.
- stegocarpous — (of a moss) belonging to the division Stegocarpi, having an operculate capsule
- stenophagous — (of an animal) feeding on a limited variety of foods (opposed to euryphagous).
- stepdaughter — a daughter of one's husband or wife by a previous marriage.
- stipulaceous — of, relating to, having, resembling, or living on stipules
- stirrup-vase — a Mycenaean vase having a spherical body, a spout on the shoulder, and a handle, curving across the top, supported by a solid conical neck.
- student lamp — a table lamp whose light source can be adjusted in height.
- stupefacient — stupefying; producing stupor.
- stupefaction — the state of being stupefied; stupor.
- stupefactive — serving to stupefy.