12-letter words containing s, p, i, e, g, l
- passing bell — a bell tolled to announce a death or funeral.
- passing lane — a highway lane in which a driver may pass other vehicles legally.
- pekinologist — a person who studies the People's Republic of China
- persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
- pestological — relating to pestology
- phrenologist — a psychological theory or analytical method based on the belief that certain mental faculties and character traits are indicated by the configurations of the skull.
- phylogenesis — the development or evolution of a particular group of organisms.
- physiologies — the branch of biology dealing with the functions and activities of living organisms and their parts, including all physical and chemical processes.
- pig islander — a New Zealander
- piss-elegant — displaying a contrived, often pretentious, sophistication, opulence, etc.
- plunge basin — a cavity at the base of a falls or cataract, formed by the action of the falling water.
- preschooling — the education of preschool children.
- psephologist — A psephologist studies how people vote in elections.
- psychologize — to make psychological investigations or speculations, especially those that are naive or uninformed.
- pyroligneous — produced by the distillation of wood.
- replenishing — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
- seating plan — layout of seats at a venue or on transport
- self-pitying — Someone who is self-pitying is full of self-pity.
- self-playing — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- self-priming — the powder or other material used to ignite a charge.
- self-proving — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- self-tapping — (of a screw) cutting its own thread when screwed into a plain hole in a metal sheet
- shepherdling — a young or little shepherd
- simple group — a group that has no normal subgroup except the group itself and the identity.
- simple sugar — monosaccharide.
- single-party — of or relating to a form of government in which only a single political party constitutes the government
- single-payer — noting or relating to a healthcare or health insurance system in which the government or a publicly owned and regulated agency pays all medical costs from a single fund.
- single-phase — noting or pertaining to a circuit having an alternating current with one phase or with phases differing by 180°.
- single-space — to type (copy) on each line space.
- skip welding — a technique of spacing welds on thin structural members in order to balance and minimize internal stresses due to heat.
- sleeping bag — a warmly lined or padded body-length bag, usually waterproof and with a closure, in which one or two persons can sleep, especially outdoors, as when camping.
- sleeping car — a railroad car fitted with berths, compartments, bedrooms, or drawing rooms for passengers to sleep in.
- sleepwalking — an act of sleepwalking; somnambulation.
- sloop-rigged — (of a sailboat) fore-and-aft rigged with a mainsail and a jib.
- small magpie — an unrelated micro, Eurrhypara hortulata
- space flight — journey into outer space
- specialising — to pursue some special line of study, work, etc.; have a specialty: The doctor specializes in gastroenterology.
- speedballing — the practice of taking cocaine and heroin together intravenously
- speleologist — the exploration and study of caves.
- spellbinding — to hold or bind by or as if by a spell; enchant; entrance; fascinate.
- spelling bee — a spelling competition won by the individual or team spelling the greatest number of words correctly; spelldown.
- spiegeleisen — a lustrous, crystalline pig iron containing a large amount of manganese, sometimes 15 percent or more, used in making steel.
- spot welding — fusing metal
- spring-clean — to subject (a place) to a spring-cleaning.
- sputteringly — in a sputtering manner
- stegophilist — a person who enjoys climbing up the outside of buildings
- stool pigeon — a pigeon used as a decoy.
- stupefyingly — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
- supercooling — to cool (a liquid) below its freezing point without producing solidification or crystallization; undercool.
- superglacial — on the surface of a glacier.