12-letter words containing s, t, e, p, l
- synadelphite — an arsenate containing manganese and aluminium
- tapsalteerie — topsy-turvy.
- telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
- telegraphese — a style of writing or speaking distinguished by the omissions, abbreviations, and combinations that are characteristic of telegrams, as in “ expect arrive six evening. ”.
- telepresence — the use of virtual reality technology to operate machinery by remote control or to create the effect of being at a different or imaginary location
- teleshopping — electronic shopping via videotex or other interactive information service.
- teleutospore — a spore of certain rust fungi, which carries the fungus through the winter and which, on germination, produces the promycelium.
- tenths-place — next after ninth; being the ordinal number for ten.
- the olympics — the Olympic Games
- the populars — cheap newspapers with mass circulation; the popular press
- the psalmist — King David, to whom all or certain of the Psalms are variously attributed
- thiosulphate — any salt of thiosulphuric acid
- time capsule — a receptacle containing documents or objects typical of the current period, placed in the earth or in a cornerstone for discovery in the future.
- to play safe — If you play safe or play it safe, you do not take any risks.
- tradespeople — people engaged in trade, esp shopkeepers
- transpirable — to occur; happen; take place.
- transplantee — a person who is undergoing or has undergone an organ transplant.
- transponible — capable of being transposed.
- triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
- tribespeople — members of a tribe; people living a tribal lifestyle
- tricephalous — with three heads
- triple-space — to type (copy) so as to leave two full spaces between lines
- tropicalised — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- 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
- typicalities — of the nature of or serving as a type or representative specimen.
- ultraprecise — extremely accurate
- undisputable — capable of being disputed; debatable; questionable.
- undisputedly — to engage in argument or debate.
- unhospitable — not hospitable
- unit's place — unit (def 8).
- unnilseptium — bohrium.
- unpleasantry — an unpleasant word, action, comment, etc.: comments filled with unpleasantries.
- unpoliteness — the quality or state of being impolite
- unrespectful — full of, characterized by, or showing politeness or deference: a respectful reply.
- unsculptured — not resembling a sculpture
- unspectacled — lacking spectacles
- unsplittable — to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
- unstipulated — to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of agreement (often followed by for).
- velcro strip — a strip or roll of Velcro, able to be cut to the required length
- vespertilian — of, relating to, or resembling a bat
- water pistol — a toy gun that shoots a stream of liquid.
- water splash — a place where a stream runs over a road
- water supply — the supply of purified water available to a community.
- wheeltappers — Plural form of wheeltapper.
- whippletrees — Plural form of whippletree.
- whistle-stop — to campaign for political office by traveling around the country, originally by train, stopping at small communities to address voters.
- white plains — a city in SE New York, near New York City: battle 1776.
- wool stapler — a dealer in wool.
- yachtspeople — Plural form of yachtsperson.