12-letter words containing s, e, r, p, n
- chiropterans — Plural form of chiropteran.
- chlorospinel — a variety of spinel used as a gem, colored grass-green by the presence of copper.
- chordophones — Plural form of chordophone.
- christophene — chayote.
- chronoscopes — Plural form of chronoscope.
- churchperson — A person involved with the church; a churchgoer or cleric.
- cinque ports — an association of ports on the SE coast of England, originally consisting of Hastings, Romney, Hythe, Dover, and Sandwich, which from late Anglo-Saxon times provided ships for the king's service in return for the profits of justice in their courts. The Cinque Ports declined with the growth of other ports and surrendered their charters in 1685
- clergyperson — a member of the clergy
- cluster pine — a pine tree, Pinus pinaster, having long thick needles and large clustered cones, native to the Mediterranean coastal regions.
- co-ownership — the fact or state of being one of the joint owners of something
- co-president — a person who shares the highest position in an organization with another person
- coleopterans — Plural form of coleopteran.
- compartments — Plural form of compartment.
- compensatory — Compensatory payments involve money paid as compensation.
- comportments — Plural form of comportment.
- compressions — Plural form of compression.
- conidiospore — a conidium
- conspiracies — Plural form of conspiracy.
- consumership — the state of being a consumer
- contemporise — to place in or regard as belonging to the same age or time.
- cooperations — an act or instance of working or acting together for a common purpose or benefit; joint action.
- copperfasten — (transitive, historical) To protect the timbers [of a ship] with plates of copper secured with copper nails or bolts.
- coprocessing — the act of processing jointly
- corespondent — a person charged with having committed adultery with the wife or husband from whom a divorce is being sought
- corresponded — to be in agreement or conformity (often followed by with or to): His actions do not correspond with his words.
- costophrenic — Synonym of phrenicocostal.
- cotton press — a press for baling cotton.
- counterpanes — Plural form of counterpane.
- counterparts — a person or thing closely resembling another, especially in function: Our president is the counterpart of your prime minister.
- counterpleas — Plural form of counterplea.
- counterplots — Plural form of counterplot.
- counterpoise — a force, influence, etc, that counterbalances another
- counterscarp — the outer side of the ditch of a fort
- counterspell — a spell or charm which acts against another spell, esp in fantasy or role-playing games
- counterspies — Plural form of counterspy.
- counterstamp — a stamp added to a stamped paper or document as a qualifying mark.
- countertypes — Plural form of countertype.
- craftsperson — an artisan
- criosphinxes — Plural form of criosphinx.
- crospovidone — Crospovidone is a substance used in tablets as a binder or disintegrant.
- cross potent — a cross with equal arms, each of which ends in a bar
- cryptomnesia — the reappearance of a suppressed or forgotten memory which is mistaken for a new experience
- cryptomnesic — of, relating to, or characterized by cryptomnesia
- cusip number — A CUSIP number is a number that identifies an individual security like a stock or a bond.
- cyclosporine — a drug, produced by a fungus (Tolypocladium inflatum), that suppresses the T cells that reject foreign tissue after an organ transplant without suppressing other cells that fight infections and cancer
- cypress knee — one of the woody growths that project above water from the roots of the bald cypress.
- cypress pine — any coniferous tree of the Australian genus Callitrus, having leaves in whorls and yielding valuable timber: family Cupressaceae
- cypress vine — a tropical American convolvulaceous climbing plant, Ipomoea pennata, having finely divided compound leaves and scarlet or white tubular flowers
- de profundis — out of the depths of misery or dejection
- deaspiration — the act of deaspirating