12-letter words containing s, t, i, p, e
- spotted wilt — a viral disease of plants, characterized by wilting and by brown, sunken spots and streaks on the stems and leaves.
- spray millet — the seeds of millet left on the spike and sold in pet shops for cage birds.
- sprechstimme — sprechgesang.
- spring vetch — any of several mostly climbing plants belonging to the genus Vicia, of the legume family, having pinnate leaves ending in tendrils and bearing pealike flowers, especially V. sativa (spring vetch) cultivated for forage and soil improvement.
- spring water — water from natural underground source
- sputteringly — in a sputtering manner
- state police — a police force under state authority rather than under the authority of a city or county in the state.
- state prison — a prison maintained by a state for the confinement of felons.
- stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
- stegophilist — a person who enjoys climbing up the outside of buildings
- stem reptile — any member of the extinct order Cotylosauria, comprising heavy-bodied, splay-limbed, plant-eating reptiles that arose during the Carboniferous Period and that are considered to include the ancestors of all other reptiles.
- stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
- stephen viii — died a.d. 942, pope 939–942.
- stephenville — a town in central Texas.
- stereophonic — pertaining to a system of sound recording or reproduction using two or more separate channels to produce a more realistic effect by capturing the spatial dimensions of a performance (the location of performers as well as their acoustic surroundings), used especially with high-fidelity recordings and reproduction systems (opposed to monophonic).
- stereoptican — a projector usually consisting of two complete lanterns arranged so that one picture appears to dissolve while the next is forming.
- stereopticon — a projector usually consisting of two complete lanterns arranged so that one picture appears to dissolve while the next is forming.
- stereoscopic — noting or pertaining to three-dimensional vision or any of various processes and devices for giving the illusion of depth from two-dimensional images or reproductions, as of a photograph or motion picture.
- stereotyping — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
- stereotypist — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
- stethoscopic — pertaining to the stethoscope or to stethoscopy.
- stipulaceous — of, relating to, having, resembling, or living on stipules
- stirrup bone — the stapes, one of the three bones of the middle ear
- 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.
- stool pigeon — a pigeon used as a decoy.
- street price — the actual retail price (of something)
- strepitation — the quality or state of being strepitant
- streptolysin — a type of hemolysin produced by certain species of streptococcus.
- streptomycin — an antibiotic, C 2 1 H 3 9 N 7 O 1 2 , produced by a soil actinomycete, Streptomyces griseus, and used in medicine in the form of its white, water-soluble sulfate salt, chiefly in the treatment of tuberculosis.
- stride piano — a style of jazz piano playing in which the right hand plays the melody while the left hand plays a single bass note or octave on the strong beat and a chord on the weak beat, developed in Harlem during the 1920s, partly from ragtime piano playing.
- strike plate — strike (def 67).
- strike price — The strike price is the price of an option when it is exercised.
- strip-search — to search (a suspect who has been required to remove all clothing) especially for concealed weapons, contraband, or evidence of drug abuse.
- striped bass — an important American game fish, Morone saxatilis, having blackish stripes along each side.
- striped drum — a North American marine and freshwater sciaenid fish, Equetus pulcher, that utters a drumming sound
- strophiolate — having a strophiole
- study period — a period of time or lesson used for studying
- stupefacient — stupefying; producing stupor.
- stupefaction — the state of being stupefied; stupor.
- stupefactive — serving to stupefy.
- stupefyingly — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
- subduplicate — of the square root of ratios
- subinspector — a secondary or assistant inspector
- subscriptive — a sum of money given or pledged as a contribution, payment, investment, etc.
- subspecialty — a lesser or minor specialty: a cinematographer with a subspecialty of portrait photography.
- suet pudding — a pudding made of chopped beef suet and flour, boiled or steamed in a cloth, often with other ingredients, as raisins, spices, etc.
- suicide pact — an agreement between two or more people to commit suicide together.
- sulfite pulp — wood pulp made by the sulfite process.
- super-polite — showing good manners toward others, as in behavior, speech, etc.; courteous; civil: a polite reply.
- supercabinet — a specially-formed cabinet, a select or powerful group of political ministers (cabinet)