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12-letter words containing s, e, t, p, o

  • streptomyces — any of several aerobic bacteria of the genus Streptomyces, certain species of which produce antibiotics.
  • streptomycin — an antibiotic, C 2 1 H 3 9 N 7 O 1 2 , produced by a soil actinomycete, Streptomyces griseus, and used in medicine in the form of its white, water-soluble sulfate salt, chiefly in the treatment of tuberculosis.
  • streptosolen — a type of South American shrub grown for ornamental purposes, with orange trumpet-shaped flowers
  • stride piano — a style of jazz piano playing in which the right hand plays the melody while the left hand plays a single bass note or octave on the strong beat and a chord on the weak beat, developed in Harlem during the 1920s, partly from ragtime piano playing.
  • strophiolate — having a strophiole
  • study period — a period of time or lesson used for studying
  • stumpknocker — spotted sunfish.
  • stunt person — a stunt man or stunt woman.
  • stupefaction — the state of being stupefied; stupor.
  • stupendously — causing amazement; astounding; marvelous: stupendous news.
  • subcomponent — a constituent part; element; ingredient.
  • subinspector — a secondary or assistant inspector
  • super-polite — showing good manners toward others, as in behavior, speech, etc.; courteous; civil: a polite reply.
  • super-smooth — dead-smooth.
  • superconduct — to conduct electricity very efficiently or without resistance, to act as a superconductor
  • supererogate — to do more than duty requires.
  • superfrontal — a piece of cloth placed over an altar and frontal and hanging down a few inches over the front of the altar
  • superovulate — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
  • superpatriot — a person who is patriotic to an extreme.
  • superstardom — a person, as a performer or athlete, who enjoys wide recognition, is esteemed for exceptional talent, and is eagerly sought after for his or her services.
  • superstation — an independent television station whose signal is transmitted by satellite to subscribers on a cable system.
  • superstition — a belief or notion, not based on reason or knowledge, in or of the ominous significance of a particular thing, circumstance, occurrence, proceeding, or the like.
  • supervention — to take place or occur as something additional or extraneous (sometimes followed by on or upon).
  • suppletorily — supplying a deficiency.
  • support area — a minimum price below which a specific stock is not supposed to fall, as because of the stock's inherent worth.
  • support hose — elastic stockings worn to reduce pressure on the veins of the leg, esp for people with varicose veins
  • supraprotest — an acceptance or a payment of a bill by a third person after protest for nonacceptance or nonpayment by the drawee.
  • sweet potato — a plant, Ipomoea batatas, of the morning glory family, grown for its sweet, edible, tuberous roots.
  • sycophantize — to act the sycophant
  • symptomatize — symptomize.
  • 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.
  • telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
  • teleshopping — electronic shopping via videotex or other interactive information service.
  • teleutospore — a spore of certain rust fungi, which carries the fungus through the winter and which, on germination, produces the promycelium.
  • tempest-tost — buffeted about, as by adversities.
  • temporaneous — lasting a short while
  • tetrapterous — Zoology. having four wings or winglike appendages.
  • the bosporus — a strait between European and Asian Turkey, linking the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara
  • the hoppings — an annual fair in Newcastle
  • the olympics — the Olympic Games
  • the passions — feeling, as opposed to reason
  • the pointers — the two brightest stars in the Plough (Dubhe and Merak), which lie in the direction pointing towards the Pole Star and are therefore used to locate it
  • the populars — cheap newspapers with mass circulation; the popular press
  • the prophets — one of the three major divisions of the Jewish Holy Scriptures, following the Pentateuch and preceding the Hagiographa
  • the scorpion — the constellation Scorpio, the eighth sign of the zodiac
  • the wop-wops — the backblocks; the back of beyond
  • the-pioneers — a historical novel (1823) by James Fenimore Cooper.
  • theophrastus — 372?–287 b.c, Greek philosopher.
  • thermosiphon — an arrangement of siphon tubes that enables water in a heating apparatus to circulate by means of convection.
  • thermosphere — the region of the upper atmosphere in which temperature increases continuously with altitude, encompassing essentially all of the atmosphere above the mesosphere.
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