12-letter words containing s, p, e, c, i, n
- pre-discount — to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.): All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at two percent.
- pre-issuance — the act of issuing.
- precessional — the act or fact of preceding; precedence.
- preciousness — of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals.
- precisionism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a style of painting developed to its fullest in the U.S. in the 1920s, associated especially with Charles Demuth, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Charles Sheeler, and characterized by clinically precise, simple, and clean-edged rendering of architectural, industrial, or urban scenes usually devoid of human activity or presence.
- precisionist — (sometimes initial capital letter) a style of painting developed to its fullest in the U.S. in the 1920s, associated especially with Charles Demuth, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Charles Sheeler, and characterized by clinically precise, simple, and clean-edged rendering of architectural, industrial, or urban scenes usually devoid of human activity or presence.
- preconscious — Psychoanalysis. absent from but capable of being readily brought into consciousness.
- prenticeship — an apprenticeship
- prerecession — of the period before a recession
- preschooling — the education of preschool children.
- prescreening — to screen in advance; select before a more detailed selecting process.
- prescription — Medicine/Medical. a direction, usually written, by the physician to the pharmacist for the preparation and use of a medicine or remedy. the medicine prescribed: Take this prescription three times a day.
- preselection — to select in advance; choose beforehand.
- prestriction — the obstruction of sight
- prices index — an official list of the price of goods
- primal scene — a child's first real or imagined observation of parental sexual intercourse.
- proboscidean — pertaining to or resembling a proboscis.
- processional — of, relating to, or characteristic of a procession.
- processioner — a member of a procession
- prolificness — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
- psittacinite — mottramite.
- pumice stone — abrasive stone used for exfoliating
- pumice-stone — Also called pumice stone. a porous or spongy form of volcanic glass, used as an abrasive.
- pyrotechnics — the art of making fireworks.
- pyrotechnist — a person skilled in pyrotechnics, especially in the manufacture or use of fireworks.
- receptionism — the doctrine that in the communion service the communicant receives the body and blood of Christ but that the bread and wine are not transubstantiated.
- receptionist — a person employed to receive and assist callers, clients, etc., as in an office.
- reinspection — the act or process of reinspecting
- repercussion — an effect or result, often indirect or remote, of some event or action: The repercussions of the quarrel were widespread.
- reprocessing — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
- resipiscence — acknowledgment that one has been mistaken
- rose campion — a plant, Lychnis coronaria, of the pink family, having reddish purple flowers, and leaves covered with whitish down.
- sapindaceous — belonging to the Sapindaceae, the soapberry family of plants.
- scampishness — the quality of being scampish
- scapegoating — the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself.
- scenographic — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
- schizophrene — a person with schizophrenia or one who tends toward schizophrenia
- science park — A science park is an area, usually linked to a university, where there are a lot of private companies, especially ones concerned with high technology.
- scolopendrid — any myriapod of the order Scolopendrida, including many large, poisonous centipedes.
- scorekeeping — an official of a sports contest who keeps record of the score.
- screen print — artwork made by screen-printing
- screen-print — a print made by the silkscreen process.
- screen-wiper — windshield wiper.
- sea scorpion — scorpionfish.
- send packing — to dismiss peremptorily
- shiner perch — a small, silvery perch, Cymatogaster aggregata, inhabiting waters along the Pacific coast of North America and bearing live young.
- single-space — to type (copy) on each line space.
- sleeping car — a railroad car fitted with berths, compartments, bedrooms, or drawing rooms for passengers to sleep in.
- snail's pace — an extremely slow rate: The work progresses at a snail's pace.
- soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.