12-letter words containing s, t, r, a, o, e
- tree swallow — a bluish-green and white swallow, Iridoprocne bicolor, of North America, that nests in tree cavities.
- 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.
- trojan horse — Classical Mythology. a gigantic hollow wooden horse, left by the Greeks upon their pretended abandonment of the siege of Troy. The Trojans took it into Troy and Greek soldiers concealed in the horse opened the gates to the Greek army at night and conquered the city.
- tronc master — a person who distributes pooled tips and service charges to waiters, waitresses, hotel workers etc.
- 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
- trout stream — a stream in which trout live and which is a good source for catching trout
- ultraserious — extremely serious
- unconsecrate — profane or base
- unconversant — familiar by use or study (usually followed by with): conversant with Spanish history.
- unforecasted — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- unrestorable — to bring back into existence, use, or the like; reestablish: to restore order.
- urban forest — the trees and plants within a city.
- 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)
- varicosities — the state or condition of being varicose.
- variety show — vaudeville performance
- vasoligature — vasoligation.
- 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.
- ventrodorsal — pertaining to the ventral and dorsal aspects of the body; extending from the ventral to the dorsal side.
- viscerotonia — a personality type characterized by hedonism and conviviality: said to be correlated with an endomorph body type
- wagon master — wagon boss.
- waistcoateer — a prostitute
- waste ground — an empty piece of land
- water closet — an enclosed room or compartment containing a toilet bowl fitted with a mechanism for flushing.
- water locust — a spiny tree, Gleditsia aquatica, of the legume family, native to the southeastern coastal U.S., having pinnate leaves, greenish-yellow, bell-shaped flowers, and long-stalked, thin pods.
- water pistol — a toy gun that shoots a stream of liquid.
- water sports — a sport played or practiced on or in water, as swimming, water polo, or surfing.
- water sprout — a nonflowering shoot arising from a branch or axil of a tree or shrub.
- watercolours — Plural form of watercolour.
- watercourses — Plural form of watercourse.
- weathercocks — Plural form of weathercock.
- weavers-knot — sheet bend.
- westmoreland — William Childs [chahyldz] /tʃaɪldz/ (Show IPA), 1914–2005, U.S. army officer: commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam and Thailand 1964–68.
- what is more — moreover, in addition
- whitethroats — Plural form of whitethroat.
- wool stapler — a dealer in wool.
- writeacourse — (language) A CAI language for IBM 360.
- yachtsperson — A yachtsman or yachtswoman.
- your-majesty — regal, lofty, or stately dignity; imposing character; grandeur: majesty of bearing; the majesty of Chartres.