12-letter words containing s, p, r, i, n
- candy stripe — a pattern of bright stripes of one color against a plain background, used chiefly in fabrics.
- canine corps — a military or law enforcement body which uses dogs for the detection of explosives or drugs or for security, tracking, etc
- caparisoning — Present participle of caparison.
- cardinalship — The office (or term of office) of a cardinal.
- centerpieces — Plural form of centerpiece.
- ceratopsians — Plural form of ceratopsian.
- chairmanship — The chairmanship of a committee or organization is the fact of being its chairperson. Someone's chairmanship can also mean the period during which they are chairperson.
- chairpersons — Plural form of chairperson.
- cheeseparing — penny-pinching; stingy
- chiropterans — Plural form of chiropteran.
- chlorospinel — a variety of spinel used as a gem, colored grass-green by the presence of copper.
- christophany — an appearance or emergence of Christ following his crucifixion
- christophene — chayote.
- chymotrypsin — a powerful proteolytic enzyme secreted from the pancreas in the form of chymotrypsinogen, being converted to the active form by trypsin
- cinque ports — an association of ports on the SE coast of England, originally consisting of Hastings, Romney, Hythe, Dover, and Sandwich, which from late Anglo-Saxon times provided ships for the king's service in return for the profits of justice in their courts. The Cinque Ports declined with the growth of other ports and surrendered their charters in 1685
- cluster pine — a pine tree, Pinus pinaster, having long thick needles and large clustered cones, native to the Mediterranean coastal regions.
- co-ownership — the fact or state of being one of the joint owners of something
- co-president — a person who shares the highest position in an organization with another person
- compressions — Plural form of compression.
- compromising — If you describe information or a situation as compromising, you mean that it reveals an embarrassing or guilty secret about someone.
- conidiospore — a conidium
- conscripting — Present participle of conscript.
- conscription — Conscription is officially making people in a particular country join the armed forces.
- conspiracies — Plural form of conspiracy.
- conspiracist — a person who believes in or supports a conspiracy theory.
- conspiration — a conspiracy
- conspirators — Plural form of conspirator.
- conspiratory — the act of conspiring.
- consumership — the state of being a consumer
- contemporise — to place in or regard as belonging to the same age or time.
- contraptions — Plural form of contraption.
- cooperations — an act or instance of working or acting together for a common purpose or benefit; joint action.
- coprocessing — the act of processing jointly
- corporations — Plural form of corporation.
- cosponsoring — Present participle of cosponsor.
- costophrenic — Synonym of phrenicocostal.
- counterpoise — a force, influence, etc, that counterbalances another
- counterspies — Plural form of counterspy.
- craftmanship — Alternative form of craftsmanship.
- cranioplasty — Surgical repair of a defect or deformity in the skull.
- criosphinxes — Plural form of criosphinx.
- crop dusting — Crop dusting is the spreading of pesticides on crops, usually from an aircraft.
- crop-dusting — the spraying of powdered fungicides or insecticides on crops, usually from an airplane.
- crospovidone — Crospovidone is a substance used in tablets as a binder or disintegrant.
- crossposting — Present participle of crosspost.
- cryptomnesia — the reappearance of a suppressed or forgotten memory which is mistaken for a new experience
- cryptomnesic — of, relating to, or characterized by cryptomnesia
- cusip number — A CUSIP number is a number that identifies an individual security like a stock or a bond.
- cyclosporine — a drug, produced by a fungus (Tolypocladium inflatum), that suppresses the T cells that reject foreign tissue after an organ transplant without suppressing other cells that fight infections and cancer
- cypress pine — any coniferous tree of the Australian genus Callitrus, having leaves in whorls and yielding valuable timber: family Cupressaceae