12-letter words containing s, p, o, r, u
- tech support — an advising and troubleshooting service provided by a manufacturer, typically a software or hardware developer, to its customers, often online or on the telephone.
- telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
- teleutospore — a spore of certain rust fungi, which carries the fungus through the winter and which, on germination, produces the promycelium.
- temporaneous — lasting a short while
- tetrapterous — Zoology. having four wings or winglike appendages.
- the bosporus — a strait between European and Asian Turkey, linking the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara
- the populars — cheap newspapers with mass circulation; the popular press
- theophrastus — 372?–287 b.c, Greek philosopher.
- top security — ultra secure
- tourist trap — a place, as a restaurant, shop, or hotel, that exploits tourists by overcharging.
- transpicuous — transparent.
- transumption — an act of metaphorical transference
- trepidatious — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
- tricephalous — with three heads
- tropophilous — adapted to a climate characterized by marked environmental changes.
- trouble spot — an area in which trouble exists or is expected to develop: There are several diplomatic trouble spots in Central America.
- trouser clip — a clip that is worn around the bottom of a trouser leg to stop the material getting caught in the chain of a bicycle
- trunk piston — a piston with a long skirt to take the side thrust, as in an automobile engine.
- turbo pascal — (language, product) Borland International's Pascal. Perhaps the first integrated development environment for MS-DOS. Versions 1.0-3.0: standard Pascal with a few extensions Versions 4.0 (1987) and 5.0: separate compilation. Version 5.5: object-oriented. Version 6.0: Turbo Vision OOP library.
- un-purposely — intentionally; deliberately: He tripped me purposely.
- underexposed — If a photograph is underexposed, it is darker than it should be because the film was not exposed to enough light.
- underpassion — an underlying or subconscious passion
- unimprisoned — not confined in a prison
- unit process — any of a number of standard operations, such as filtration or distillation, that are widely used in various chemical and process industries
- unoppressive — not cruel or harsh
- unpersonable — of pleasing personal appearance; handsome or comely; attractive.
- unpropitious — presenting favorable conditions; favorable: propitious weather.
- unprosperous — having or characterized by financial success or good fortune; flourishing; successful: a prosperous business.
- unprotesting — an expression or declaration of objection, disapproval, or dissent, often in opposition to something a person is powerless to prevent or avoid: a protest against increased taxation.
- unresponding — to reply or answer in words: to respond briefly to a question.
- unresponsive — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
- unscrupulous — not scrupulous; unrestrained by scruples; conscienceless; unprincipled.
- unsupporting — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- unsupportive — giving support.
- unworshipful — not worshipful; not showing reverence or admiration
- unworshipped — not worshipped; not admired or revered
- up for grabs — to seize suddenly or quickly; snatch; clutch: He grabbed me by the collar.
- upper school — a scholastic division, especially in a private school, including the terminal secondary grades.
- uproariously — characterized by or in a state of uproar; tumultuous.
- urethroscope — an apparatus for observing the urethra.
- urethroscopy — observation of the urethra by a urethroscope.
- vesper mouse — white-footed mouse.
- virtuosoship — the condition of being a virtuoso; the activities of a virtuoso
- water sprout — a nonflowering shoot arising from a branch or axil of a tree or shrub.
- worshipfully — In a worshipful manner; reverentially.