12-letter words containing s, t, p, i
- expansionist — Of or pertaining to expansionism.
- expatriatism — The condition of being an expatriate, especially a deliberate one.
- expectancies — Plural form of expectancy.
- expectations — Plural form of expectation.
- expenditures — Plural form of expenditure.
- explanations — Plural form of explanation.
- explications — Plural form of explication.
- explicitness — The state or characteristic of being explicit.
- explorations — Plural form of exploration.
- expositional — Explained in clear terms, as in writing.
- expressivity — (uncountable) The quality of being expressive.
- expropriates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of expropriate.
- expugnations — Plural form of expugnation.
- exspoliation — (obsolete) spoliation.
- extemporised — Simple past tense and past participle of extemporise.
- extemporizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of extemporize.
- extropianism — Belief in, or support for, the theory of extropy.
- factory ship — a whaling ship equipped to process killed whales and to transport the oil and by-products.
- feldspathoid — Also, feldspathoidal. of or relating to a group of minerals similar in chemical composition to certain feldspars except for a lower silica content.
- fetoproteins — Plural form of fetoprotein.
- fiber optics — the branch of optics that deals with the transmission of light through transparent fibers, as in the form of pulses for the transmission of data or communications, or through fiber bundles for the transmission of images.
- fibre optics — optical fibre
- field sports — sports carried on in the open countryside, such as hunting, shooting, or fishing
- filter press — an apparatus used for filtration consisting of a set of frames covered with filter cloth on both sides, between which the liquid to be filtered is pumped
- fingerprints — Plural form of fingerprint.
- fire support — support given by artillery and aircraft to infantry and armored vehicles.
- first empire — the empire (1804–14) established in France by Napoleon Bonaparte.
- first person — the grammatical person used by a speaker in statements referring to himself or herself (first person singular) or to a group including himself or herself (first person plural)
- fishing port — a town which has a lot of fishing boats
- fissipalmate — (of birds) having the toes lobed or partially webbed.
- fleet prison — (formerly) a London prison, esp used for holding debtors
- flight strip — Aeronautics. a strip of cleared land used as an emergency runway for aircraft. runway.
- foam plastic — a kind of light cellular plastic made by creating bubbles of gas in the liquid material and solidifying it: often used as an insulator
- folsom point — a flint point characteristic of the Folsom tradition, typically leaf-shaped and fluted, with small basal extensions, and used on a projectile, as a spear, for hunting game.
- fore-topsail — a topsail set on a foremast on a ship.
- foretopsails — Plural form of foretopsail.
- fort pickens — Andrew, 1739–1817, American Revolutionary general.
- fort pulaski — Count Casimir [kaz-uh-meer] /ˈkæz əˌmɪər/ (Show IPA), 1748–79, Polish patriot; general in the American Revolutionary army.
- fortepianist — the player of a fortepiano
- fosphenytoin — a prodrug that produces phenytoin and is taken to prevent or treat seizures.
- four-striper — a captain in the U.S. Navy.
- frontispiece — an illustrated leaf preceding the title page of a book.
- gaff topsail — Also called fore-and-aft topsail. a jib-headed fore-and-aft sail set above a gaff.
- gaff-topsail — Also called fore-and-aft topsail. a jib-headed fore-and-aft sail set above a gaff.
- gastroscopic — Of or pertaining to gastroscopy.
- geophysicist — the branch of geology that deals with the physics of the earth and its atmosphere, including oceanography, seismology, volcanology, and geomagnetism.
- get to grips — to deal with (a problem or subject)
- ghost shrimp — a shrimplike crustacean of the genus Callianassa, of the Pacific coast of North America, having a pinkish, transparent body.
- glacis plate — the frontal plate armour on a tank
- glossoptosis — (medicine) The abnormal downward displacement or retraction of the tongue.