12-letter words containing s, t, r, e, p
- transportive — to carry, move, or convey from one place to another.
- transumptive — of or relating to transumption
- 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.
- tribespeople — members of a tribe; people living a tribal lifestyle
- tricephalous — with three heads
- tricuspidate — having three cusps or flaps.
- triphosphate — a salt derived from triphosphoric acid.
- triple-space — to type (copy) so as to leave two full spaces between lines
- 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
- 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
- tryparsamide — a white, crystalline powder, C 8 H 10 O 4 N 2 AsNa·½H 2 , used chiefly in treating African sleeping sickness.
- twisted pair — A twisted pair is a pair of wires that are twisted together to reduce interference.
- typhus-fever — an acute, infectious disease caused by several species of Rickettsia, transmitted by lice and fleas, and characterized by acute prostration, headache, and a peculiar eruption of reddish spots on the body.
- ultraprecise — extremely accurate
- un-disrupted — to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
- under-script — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
- unit process — any of a number of standard operations, such as filtration or distillation, that are widely used in various chemical and process industries
- unpersecuted — not persecuted
- unpleasantry — an unpleasant word, action, comment, etc.: comments filled with unpleasantries.
- unprettiness — the state of quality of being ugly, unattractive, or unbecoming
- unprotesting — an expression or declaration of objection, disapproval, or dissent, often in opposition to something a person is powerless to prevent or avoid: a protest against increased taxation.
- unrespectful — full of, characterized by, or showing politeness or deference: a respectful reply.
- unrespective — not attentive; unheeding
- unsculptured — not resembling a sculpture
- unsupportive — giving support.
- untrespassed — Law. an unlawful act causing injury to the person, property, or rights of another, committed with force or violence, actual or implied. a wrongful entry upon the lands of another. the action to recover damages for such an injury.
- urethroscope — an apparatus for observing the urethra.
- urethroscopy — observation of the urethra by a urethroscope.
- 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)
- vanity press — a printing house that specializes in publishing books for which the authors pay all or most of the costs.
- 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.
- 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 spider — a Eurasian spider, Argyroneta aquatica, that spins a web in the form of an air-filled chamber in which it lives submerged in streams and ponds
- water splash — a place where a stream runs over a road
- water sports — a sport played or practiced on or in water, as swimming, water polo, or surfing.
- water sprite — a sprite or spirit inhabiting the water, as an undine.
- water sprout — a nonflowering shoot arising from a branch or axil of a tree or shrub.
- water supply — the supply of purified water available to a community.
- watermanship — the skill, duties, business, etc., of a waterman.
- weather ship — a ship equipped for meteorological observation.
- weatherstrip — A strip of rubber, metal, or other material used to seal the edges of a door or window against the cold.
- west pointer — a graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point
- west prussia — a former province of Prussia: since 1945 part of Poland.