12-letter words containing s, t, o, p, a
- synaptosomal — pertaining to a synaptosome
- talking shop — If you say that a conference or a committee is just a talking shop, you disapprove of it because nothing is achieved as a result of what is discussed.
- tapioca snow — snow pellets.
- telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
- temporaneous — lasting a short while
- tetrapterous — Zoology. having four wings or winglike appendages.
- the passions — feeling, as opposed to reason
- the populars — cheap newspapers with mass circulation; the popular press
- theophrastus — 372?–287 b.c, Greek philosopher.
- thiosulphate — any salt of thiosulphuric acid
- thomas paine — Albert Bigelow [big-uh-loh] /ˈbɪg əˌloʊ/ (Show IPA), 1861–1937, U.S. author and editor.
- thoracoscope — an instrument used for examining the pleural cavity
- to play host — If a person or country plays host to an event or an important visitor, they host the event or the visit.
- to play safe — If you play safe or play it safe, you do not take any risks.
- to stop dead — To stop dead means to suddenly stop happening or moving. To stop someone or something dead means to cause them to suddenly stop happening or moving.
- to talk shop — If you say that people are talking shop, you mean that they are talking about their work, and this is boring for other people who do not do the same work.
- tomato aspic — aspic1 (def 2).
- tomato paste — a soft, smooth substance made from crushed tomatoes, used in cooking
- top sergeant — a first sergeant.
- torreys peak — a mountain in central Colorado, in the Front Range, in the E Rocky Mountains. 14,267 feet (4349 meters).
- tourist trap — a place, as a restaurant, shop, or hotel, that exploits tourists by overcharging.
- tracheoscopy — examination of the interior of the trachea, as with a laryngoscope.
- tradespeople — people engaged in trade, esp shopkeepers
- tradesperson — a skilled worker
- trading post — a store established in an unsettled or thinly settled region by a trader or trading company to obtain furs and local products in exchange for supplies, clothing, other goods, or for cash.
- trainspotter — A trainspotter is someone who is very interested in trains and spends time going to stations and recording the numbers of the trains that they see.
- trans person — a person who is transgender or transsexual.
- transit stop — a stop made by a vehicle such as an aircraft, train or bus on the way to its final destination
- transpicuous — transparent.
- transponible — capable of being transposed.
- transpontine — across or beyond a bridge.
- transportive — to carry, move, or convey from one place to another.
- transumption — an act of metaphorical transference
- trapshooting — the sport of shooting at clay pigeons hurled into the air from a trap.
- tree sparrow — a Eurasian bird, Passer montanus, related to but smaller than the house sparrow.
- trepidations — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- trepidatious — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
- tricephalous — with three heads
- triphosphate — a salt derived from triphosphoric acid.
- trophallaxis — (among social insects) the exchange of nutriments or other secretions between members of a colony.
- tropicalised — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- troposcatter — the scattering or extended propagation of radio signals using the local irregularities in the Earth's troposphere
- 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.
- typographist — a person skilled in the art of typography
- unhospitable — not hospitable
- unpassionate — having, compelled by, or ruled by intense emotion or strong feeling; fervid: a passionate advocate of socialism.
- unsyncopated — marked by syncopation: syncopated rhythm.
- van der post — Sir Laurens (Jan). 1906–96, South African writer and traveller. His works include the travel books Venture to the Interior (1952), The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958), and Testament to the Bushmen (1984) and the novels The Hunter and the Whale (1967) and The Admiral's Baby (1996)
- vector space — an additive group in which addition is commutative and with which is associated a field of scalars, as the field of real numbers, such that the product of a scalar and an element of the group or a vector is defined, the product of two scalars times a vector is associative, one times a vector is the vector, and two distributive laws hold.