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12-letter words containing s, p, u, r, t, a

  • purple state — a state of the U.S. in which the Democratic and Republican candidates both have a good chance of winning and that is considered key to the outcome of a presidential election: the swing states of Ohio and Indiana.
  • put years on — to make (someone) feel or look much older
  • pyrosulphate — any salt of pyrosulphuric acid
  • quarterpipes — Plural form of quarterpipe.
  • ramapithecus — a genus of extinct Miocene ape known from fossils found in India and Pakistan and formerly thought to be a possible human ancestor.
  • reassumption — the act or process of reassuming something
  • rescue party — a group of people who attempt to rescue, find or save a person or people for danger, esp a person or people who have got lost while mountain climbing
  • resupination — a resupinate condition.
  • rubber stamp — handheld printing tool
  • rubber-stamp — to imprint with a rubber stamp.
  • scripturally — (sometimes initial capital letter) of, relating to, or in accordance with sacred writings, especially the Scriptures.
  • separate out — filter, sift
  • serpentarium — a place where snakes are housed, especially for exhibition.
  • sharp tongue — If you say that someone has a sharp tongue, you are critical of the fact that they say things which are unkind though often clever.
  • sinanthropus — the genus to which Peking man was formerly assigned.
  • sitka spruce — a spruce, Picea sitchensis, of western North America, having long, silvery-white needles, grown as an ornamental.
  • somatopleure — the double layer formed by the association of the upper layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the overlying ectoderm, functioning in the formation of the body wall and amnion.
  • speculatrice — a female speculator
  • spiritualism — the belief or doctrine that the spirits of the dead, surviving after the mortal life, can and do communicate with the living, especially through a person (a medium) particularly susceptible to their influence.
  • spiritualist — an adherent of spiritualism.
  • spirituality — the quality or fact of being spiritual.
  • spiritualize — to make spiritual.
  • splatterpunk — a form of fiction featuring extremely graphic violence.
  • stand up for — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
  • starch syrup — glucose (def 2).
  • starch-syrup — a sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , having several optically different forms, the common dextrorotatory form (dextroglucose, or -glucose) occurring in many fruits, animal tissues and fluids, etc., and having a sweetness about one half that of ordinary sugar, and the rare levorotatory form (levoglucose, or -glucose) not naturally occurring.
  • status group — a social stratum sharing the same lifestyle or occupation and having the same level of prestige.
  • stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
  • stegocarpous — (of a moss) belonging to the division Stegocarpi, having an operculate capsule
  • stepdaughter — a daughter of one's husband or wife by a previous marriage.
  • stirrup-vase — a Mycenaean vase having a spherical body, a spout on the shoulder, and a handle, curving across the top, supported by a solid conical neck.
  • strophanthus — any of various shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Strophanthus, of the dogbane family, chiefly of tropical Africa.
  • sub-tropical — Sub-tropical places have a climate that is warm and wet, and are often near tropical regions.
  • subtemperate — of, relating to, or occurring in the colder parts of the Temperate Zone.
  • sukarnoputri — Megawati (ˈmɛɡəˌwɒtɪ). born 1947, Indonesian politician; president of Indonesia (2001–04): daughter of Achmed Sukarno
  • sulphur bath — a curative bath in which the water used has sulphates dissolved in it, especially one in which the water comes from a natural hot spring
  • superannuate — to allow to retire from service or office on a pension because of age or infirmity.
  • superathlete — a highly accomplished athlete, an exceptional athlete
  • supercabinet — a specially-formed cabinet, a select or powerful group of political ministers (cabinet)
  • supercapital — a member situated between a capital and the spring of an arch, as a dosseret.
  • superelastic — capable of returning to its original length, shape, etc., after being stretched, deformed, compressed, or expanded: an elastic waistband; elastic fiber.
  • superelevate — to raise above a normal level
  • supererogate — to do more than duty requires.
  • superfrontal — a piece of cloth placed over an altar and frontal and hanging down a few inches over the front of the altar
  • supergravity — a hypothetical symmetry among groups of particles containing fermions and bosons, especially in theories of gravity (supergravity) that unify electromagnetism, the weak force, and the strong force with gravity into a single unified force.
  • superheating — Superheating of steam is raising its temperature to well above boiling point.
  • supernatural — of, relating to, or being above or beyond what is natural; unexplainable by natural law or phenomena; abnormal.
  • superovulate — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
  • superpatriot — a person who is patriotic to an extreme.
  • superplastic — (of some metals and alloys) having the capacity to undergo extreme deformation at high temperatures.
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