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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.
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