12-letter words containing s, p, i, c
- emancipators — Plural form of emancipator.
- encaptivates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encaptivate.
- encephalitis — Inflammation of the brain, caused by infection or an allergic reaction.
- 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.
- epidiascopes — Plural form of epidiascope.
- episcopacies — Plural form of episcopacy.
- episcopalian — An adherent of episcopacy.
- episcopalism — the belief that a Church should be governed by bishops
- episodically — In an episodic manner; in episodes.
- escapologist — An entertainer specializing in escaping from the confinement of such things as ropes, handcuffs, and chains.
- ethnopoetics — A poetical, linguistic and anthropological movement dealing with poetry written by, or in the style of, indigenous peoples.
- exceptionals — Plural form of exceptional.
- executorship — The office or position of an executor.
- expectancies — Plural form of expectancy.
- expectations — Plural form of expectation.
- expediencies — Plural form of expediency.
- explications — Plural form of explication.
- explicitness — The state or characteristic of being explicit.
- factory ship — a whaling ship equipped to process killed whales and to transport the oil and by-products.
- fiber optics — the branch of optics that deals with the transmission of light through transparent fibers, as in the form of pulses for the transmission of data or communications, or through fiber bundles for the transmission of images.
- fibre optics — optical fibre
- financescape — Figuratively, the financial landscape; financial markets.
- fluoroscopic — of or relating to the fluoroscope or fluoroscopy.
- foam plastic — a kind of light cellular plastic made by creating bubbles of gas in the liquid material and solidifying it: often used as an insulator
- fort pickens — Andrew, 1739–1817, American Revolutionary general.
- frontispiece — an illustrated leaf preceding the title page of a book.
- garlic press — kitchen tool for crushing garlic
- garrison cap — overseas cap.
- gastroscopic — Of or pertaining to gastroscopy.
- geophysicist — the branch of geology that deals with the physics of the earth and its atmosphere, including oceanography, seismology, volcanology, and geomagnetism.
- glacis plate — the frontal plate armour on a tank
- glockenspiel — a musical instrument composed of a set of graduated steel bars mounted in a frame and struck with hammers, used especially in bands.
- go to pieces — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
- gospel choir — a choir performing gospel music
- gospel music — a now popularized form of impassioned rhythmic spiritual music rooted in the solo and responsive church singing of rural blacks in the American South, central to the development of rhythm and blues and of soul music.
- graphic arts — any of the fine or applied visual arts based on drawing or the use of line, as opposed to colour or relief, on a plane surface, esp illustration and printmaking of all kinds
- handicappeds — Plural form of handicapped.
- handicappers — Plural form of handicapper.
- harpsichords — Plural form of harpsichord.
- helicographs — Plural form of helicograph.
- heliospheric — Of or pertaining to the heliosphere.
- hemophiliacs — Plural form of hemophiliac.
- histographic — a treatise on or description of organic tissues.
- holophrastic — using or consisting of a single word that functions as a phrase or sentence.
- holopneustic — having all the spiracles open, as the tracheal systems of most insects.
- house prices — the sums in money for which houses may be bought or sold
- hyper-social — relating to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations: a social club.