12-letter words containing s, p, e, n, d, t
- imprest fund — a fund of petty cash.
- impudentness — Quality of being impudent.
- in deep shit — excrement; feces.
- in the dumps — a depressed state of mind (usually preceded by in the): to be in the dumps over money problems.
- incapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of incapsulate.
- independents — Plural form of independent.
- indisputable — not disputable or deniable; uncontestable. indisputable evidence.
- interspersed — to scatter here and there or place at intervals among other things: to intersperse flowers among shrubs.
- interspliced — Simple past tense and past participle of intersplice.
- intrepidness — resolutely fearless; dauntless: an intrepid explorer.
- introspected — Simple past tense and past participle of introspect.
- jurisprudent — versed in jurisprudence.
- land plaster — finely ground gypsum, used chiefly as a fertilizer.
- lithopedions — Plural form of lithopedion.
- meanspirited — petty; small-minded; ungenerous: a meanspirited man, unwilling to forgive.
- median strip — a paved, planted, or landscaped strip in the center of a highway that separates lanes of traffic going in opposite directions.
- needlepoints — Plural form of needlepoint.
- nondescripts — Plural form of nondescript.
- open desktop — (operating system, product) A Motif-based graphical interface from the Santa Cruz Operation (SCO), built over their Unix environment, part of the ACE initiative. Also known as "Open DeathTrap".
- outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
- paedodontics — the branch of dentistry that focuses on the care of children's teeth
- pasture land — grassland used for grazing
- periodontics — the branch of dentistry dealing with the study and treatment of diseases of the periodontium.
- periodontist — a specialist in periodontics.
- point spread — a betting device, established by oddsmakers and used to attract bettors for uneven competitions, indicating the estimated number of points by which a stronger team can be expected to defeat a weaker team, the point spread being added to the weaker team's actual points in the game and this new figure then compared to the stronger team's points to determine winning bets.
- point-spread — a betting device, established by oddsmakers and used to attract bettors for uneven competitions, indicating the estimated number of points by which a stronger team can be expected to defeat a weaker team, the point spread being added to the weaker team's actual points in the game and this new figure then compared to the stronger team's points to determine winning bets.
- pollutedness — the state of being polluted
- polysyndeton — the use of a number of conjunctions in close succession.
- postaccident — occurring after an accident
- postdeadline — the time by which something must be finished or submitted; the latest time for finishing something: a five o'clock deadline.
- postmeridian — of or relating to the afternoon.
- potting shed — A potting shed is a small building in a garden, in which you can keep things such as seeds or garden tools.
- pre-discount — to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.): All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at two percent.
- predesignate — to designate beforehand.
- predestinate — Theology. to foreordain by divine decree or purpose.
- presentenced — Grammar. a grammatical unit of one or more words that expresses an independent statement, question, request, command, exclamation, etc., and that typically has a subject as well as a predicate, as in John is here. or Is John here? In print or writing, a sentence typically begins with a capital letter and ends with appropriate punctuation; in speech it displays recognizable, communicative intonation patterns and is often marked by preceding and following pauses.
- presidentess — a female president
- presidential — of or relating to a president or presidency.
- presweetened — already sweetened
- pretensioned — (in prestressed-concrete construction) to apply tension to (reinforcing strands) before the concrete is poured. Compare posttension (def 1).
- pseudo-event — an event that is staged primarily so that it can be reported in the media.
- pseudonymity — pseudonymous character.
- puddingstone — any conglomerate rock having dark-colored, rounded pebbles that are embedded in a light-colored, fine-grained matrix
- residentship — a person who resides in a place.
- 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.
- semideponent — (of a Latin verb) active in meaning but passive in form in the perfect tense
- serendipiter — an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.
- sidestepping — the act of ascending or descending by facing sideways and lifting each ski alternately
- speed dating — an organized social event in which participants have one-on-one conversations typically limited to less than ten minutes, for the purpose of meeting people they would like to date.