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

  • bachelorship — the state of being a bachelor; bachelorhood
  • backslapping — Backslapping is noisy, cheerful behavior which people use in order to show affection or appreciation to each other.
  • backstopping — a wall, wire screen, or the like, serving to prevent a ball from going too far beyond the normal playing area.
  • banana split — A banana split is a kind of dessert. It consists of a banana cut in half along its length, with ice cream, nuts, and sauce on top.
  • bank deposit — money placed in a bank account
  • bankruptcies — Plural form of bankruptcy.
  • baptisteries — Plural form of baptistery.
  • barophoresis — the diffusion of suspended particles at a rate dependent on external forces
  • base jumping — a sport in which a participant parachutes from any of a variety of fixed objects such as high buildings, cliffs, etc
  • base pairing — the hydrogen bonding that occurs between complementary nitrogenous bases in the two polynucleotide chains of a DNA molecule
  • base-pairing — the process of binding separate DNA sequences by base pairs.
  • basidiocarps — Plural form of basidiocarp.
  • basidiospore — one of the spores, usually four in number, produced in a basidium
  • basing point — a geographical location from which freight charges are computed by the seller regardless of the point from which the goods are shipped.
  • bathophilous — (of an organism) living in very deep water
  • beamsplitter — Alternative spelling of beam splitter.
  • beauty strip — a narrow forest corridor left uncut alongside a road or body of water.
  • bedside lamp — a lamp beside a bed
  • bernina alps — a mountain group in SE Switzerland, extending from the Rhateian Alps on the Italian border. Highest peak, Piz Bernina, 13,304 feet (4055 meters).
  • bernina pass — a pass in the Alps between SE Switzerland and N Italy, east of Piz Bernina. Height: 2323 m (7622 ft)
  • bien pensant — a right-thinking person
  • bishop's-cap — any of a genus (Mitella) of small woodland plants of the saxifrage family, with two-lobed seedcases shaped like a bishop's hat
  • blister pack — a type of packet in which small items are displayed and sold, consisting of a transparent dome of plastic or similar material mounted on a firm backing such as cardboard
  • blood spavin — a disease of the hock joint of horses in which enlargement occurs because of collected fluids (bog spavin) bony growth (bone spavin) or distention of the veins (blood spavin)
  • boatsmanship — seamanship as applied to boats, especially rowboats and motorboats.
  • body repairs — repairs to the bodywork of cars
  • bright spark — If you say that some bright spark had a particular idea or did something, you mean that their idea or action was clever, or that it seemed clever but was silly in some way.
  • brinkmanship — Brinkmanship is a method of behaviour, especially in politics, in which you deliberately get into dangerous situations which could result in disaster but which could also bring success.
  • bypass ratio — the ratio of the amount of air that bypasses the combustion chambers of an aircraft gas turbine to that passing through them
  • cacophonious — cacophonous
  • caesalpinoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the Caesalpinoideae, a mainly tropical subfamily of leguminous plants that have irregular flowers: includes carob, senna, brazil, cassia, and poinciana
  • camp bastion — a large British military base in Helmand province, Afghanistan, built in 2006
  • camp springs — a city in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
  • camping site — A camping site is the same as a campsite.
  • campshedding — to line (the bank of a river) with campshot.
  • candy stripe — a pattern of bright stripes of one color against a plain background, used chiefly in fabrics.
  • canine corps — a military or law enforcement body which uses dogs for the detection of explosives or drugs or for security, tracking, etc
  • cap spinning — a spinning process in which woolen yarn is twisted and wound onto a revolving bobbin located within a stationary cap, much used in the Bradford spinning process.
  • capabilities — the quality of being capable; capacity; ability: His capability was unquestionable.
  • capacitances — Plural form of capacitance.
  • caparisoning — Present participle of caparison.
  • cape jasmine — a widely cultivated gardenia shrub, Gardenia jasminoides
  • cape sounion — Cape, a cape in E central Greece, SE of Athens, at the tip of the Attica peninsula, in W Aegean Sea.
  • capillaceous — having numerous filaments resembling hairs or threads
  • capital cost — a cost incurred on the purchase of land, buildings, construction and equipment to be used in the production of goods or the rendering of services
  • capital loss — A capital loss is a loss on investment property.
  • capital ship — one of the largest and most heavily armed ships in a naval fleet
  • capitalising — Present participle of capitalise.
  • capitalistic — Capitalistic means supporting or based on the principles of capitalism.
  • capitularies — Plural form of capitulary.
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