12-letter words containing s, p, e, n, c
- 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
- culpableness — The state or quality of being culpable.
- 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
- dancing step — balanced step.
- decompensate — to undergo decompensation due to disease or impairment
- dependancies — Plural form of dependancy.
- dependencies — the state of being dependent; dependence.
- descriptions — a statement, picture in words, or account that describes; descriptive representation.
- despondences — Plural form of despondence.
- disceptation — (archaic) Controversy; disputation; discussion.
- discrepances — Plural form of discrepance.
- displacement — the act of displacing.
- displeasance — the state or cause of being displeased
- eastern cape — a province of S South Africa; formed in 1994 from the E part of the former Cape Province: service industries, agriculture, and mining. Capital: Bhisho (formerly Bisho). Pop: 6 562 053 (2011 est). Area: 169 600 sq km (65 483 sq miles)
- emancipators — Plural form of emancipator.
- emplacements — Plural form of emplacement.
- encapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of encapsulate.
- encapsulates — Enclose (something) in or as if in a capsule.
- encaptivates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encaptivate.
- encephalitis — Inflammation of the brain, caused by infection or an allergic reaction.
- encompasseth — Archaic third-person singular form of encompass.
- encompassing — Present participle of encompass.
- enhypostatic — relating to enhypostasia
- eosinophilic — (of a cell or its contents) readily stained by eosin.
- epicureanism — An ancient school of philosophy founded in Athens by Epicurus. The school rejected determinism and advocated hedonism (pleasure as the highest good), but of a restrained kind: mental pleasure was regarded more highly than physical, and the ultimate pleasure was held to be freedom from anxiety and mental pain, esp. that arising from needless fear of death and of the gods.
- episcopalian — An adherent of episcopacy.
- ethnopoetics — A poetical, linguistic and anthropological movement dealing with poetry written by, or in the style of, indigenous peoples.
- exceptionals — Plural form of exceptional.
- expectancies — Plural form of expectancy.
- expectations — Plural form of expectation.
- expectedness — The state or quality of being expected.
- expectorants — Plural form of expectorant.
- expediencies — Plural form of expediency.
- explications — Plural form of explication.
- explicitness — The state or characteristic of being explicit.
- financescape — Figuratively, the financial landscape; financial markets.
- fort pickens — Andrew, 1739–1817, American Revolutionary general.
- francophones — Plural form of francophone.
- frontispiece — an illustrated leaf preceding the title page of a book.