12-letter words containing s, n, o, p, e, d
- pretensioned — (in prestressed-concrete construction) to apply tension to (reinforcing strands) before the concrete is poured. Compare posttension (def 1).
- proboscidean — pertaining to or resembling a proboscis.
- profoundness — penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge; having deep insight or understanding: a profound thinker.
- pseudo-event — an event that is staged primarily so that it can be reported in the media.
- pseudoanemia — Pathology. a quantitative deficiency of the hemoglobin, often accompanied by a reduced number of red blood cells and causing pallor, weakness, and breathlessness.
- pseudonymity — pseudonymous character.
- pseudonymous — bearing a false or fictitious name.
- pseudorandom — noting or pertaining to random numbers generated by a definite computational process to satisfy a statistical test.
- puddingstone — any conglomerate rock having dark-colored, rounded pebbles that are embedded in a light-colored, fine-grained matrix
- respondentia — a loan upon a ship's cargo, which is repaid with interest if the ship reaches its destination, and if the ship does not, the loan is not repaid
- saddle point — a point at which a function of two variables has partial derivatives equal to zero but at which the function has neither a maximum nor a minimum value.
- sapindaceous — belonging to the Sapindaceae, the soapberry family of plants.
- scolopendrid — any myriapod of the order Scolopendrida, including many large, poisonous centipedes.
- semideponent — (of a Latin verb) active in meaning but passive in form in the perfect tense
- sleep around — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
- sloped roman — a roman (vertical) typeface, usually sans serif, i.e. without the small, decorative, terminal strokes with which some typefaces are designed. The typeface is made to slope (usually to the right), but not generally to the same degree as a true italic typeface
- snow leopard — a long-haired, leopardlike feline, Panthera (Uncia) uncia, of mountain ranges of central Asia, having a relatively small head and a thick, creamy-gray coat with rosette spots: an endangered species.
- speech sound — any of the set of distinctive sounds of a given language. Compare phoneme.
- speedboating — the act, practice, or sport of traveling in a speedboat.
- spinsterhood — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
- split second — a fraction of a second.
- sponged ware — spongeware.
- spot welding — fusing metal
- 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.
- stupendously — causing amazement; astounding; marvelous: stupendous news.
- sulphadoxine — an antibiotic drug of the sulphonamide group, commonly used in combination with pyrimethamine to treat malaria, and in combination with various drugs to treat certain infections
- sulphonamide — any of a class of organic compounds that are amides of sulphonic acids containing the group –SO2NH2 or a group derived from this. An important class of sulphonamides are the sulfa drugs
- superconduct — to conduct electricity very efficiently or without resistance, to act as a superconductor
- superkingdom — in some systems of biological classification, either of the two major subdivisions, prokaryote or eukaryote, into which all living organisms can be placed
- superordinal — relating to the superorder
- sweep-second — (on a timepiece) a second hand that is a sweep hand.
- third person — the grammatical person used by the speaker of an utterance in referring to anyone or anything other than the speaker or the one (third person singular) or ones (third person plural) being addressed.
- top dressing — tennis court
- tradesperson — a skilled worker
- trepidations — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- undecomposed — not reduced to constituent elements
- underexposed — If a photograph is underexposed, it is darker than it should be because the film was not exposed to enough light.
- underpassion — an underlying or subconscious passion
- unimprisoned — not confined in a prison
- unresponding — to reply or answer in words: to respond briefly to a question.
- unsaponified — to convert (a fat) into soap by treating with an alkali.
- unsyncopated — marked by syncopation: syncopated rhythm.
- unworshipped — not worshipped; not admired or revered
- van der post — Sir Laurens (Jan). 1906–96, South African writer and traveller. His works include the travel books Venture to the Interior (1952), The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958), and Testament to the Bushmen (1984) and the novels The Hunter and the Whale (1967) and The Admiral's Baby (1996)
- video porn's — pornographic movies available on videocassette or optical disk, on the Internet, or on subscription television.
- wooden spoon — A wooden spoon is a spoon that is used for stirring sauces and for mixing ingredients in cooking. It is made of wood and has a long handle.
- zeptoseconds — Plural form of zeptosecond.