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12-letter words containing s, t, r, i, p

  • saint-pierre — two small groups of islands off the S coast of Newfoundland: an overseas territory of France; important base for fishing. 3 sq. mi. (240 sq. km). Capital: St. Pierre.
  • saint-tropez — a town in SE France, on the French Riviera: beach resort.
  • saprophytism — living and feeding on dead organic matter
  • scintigraphy — the process of producing a scintigram.
  • scissiparity — reproduction by one cell splitting into two
  • scopes trial — John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
  • scratchpad i — (language)   A general-purpose language originally for interactive symbolic mathematics by Richard Jenks, Barry Trager, Stephen M. Watt and Robert S. Sutor of IBM Research, ca 1971. It features abstract parametrised data types, multiple inheritance and polymorphism. There were implementations for VM/CMS and AIX.
  • screen print — artwork made by screen-printing
  • screen-print — a print made by the silkscreen process.
  • scripturally — (sometimes initial capital letter) of, relating to, or in accordance with sacred writings, especially the Scriptures.
  • scriptwriter — a person who writes scripts, as for movies, radio, or television.
  • scrupulosity — having scruples, or moral or ethical standards; having or showing a strict regard for what one considers right; principled: scrupulous about defending human rights.
  • scsi adaptor — (hardware)   (Or "host adaptor") A device that communicates between a computer and its SCSI peripherals. The SCSI adaptor is usually assigned SCSI ID 7. It is often a separate card that is connected to the computer's bus (e.g. PCI, ISA, PCMCIA) though increasinly, SCSI adaptors are built in to the motherboard. Apart from being cheaper, busses like PCI are too slow to keep up with the newer SCSI standards like Ultra SCSI and Ultra-Wide SCSI. There are several varieties of SCSI (and their connectors) and an adaptor will not support them all. The performance of SCSI devices is limited by the speed of the SCSI adaptor and its connection to the computer. An adaptor that plugs into a parallel port is unlikely to be as fast as one incorporated into a motherboard. Fast adaptors use DMA or bus mastering. Some SCSI adaptors include a BIOS to allow PCs to boot from a SCSI hard disk, if their own BIOS supports it. Note that it is not a "SCSI controller" - it does not control the devices, and "SCSI interface" is redundant - the "I" of "SCSI" stands for "interface".
  • semiparasite — hemiparasite
  • semitropical — subtropical.
  • separability — capable of being separated, parted, or dissociated.
  • separatrices — something that divides or separates, as the line between light and dark areas on a partially illuminated surface.
  • septemvirate — the ruling body of septemvirs.
  • septentrions — the seven stars of the Plough
  • septilateral — having seven sides.
  • serendipiter — an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.
  • seringapatam — a town in S Karnataka, in S India, former capital of Mysore state: taken by the British 1799.
  • seropositive — showing a significant level of serum antibodies, or other immunologic marker in the serum, indicating previous exposure to the infectious agent being tested.
  • serpentarium — a place where snakes are housed, especially for exhibition.
  • serpentiform — shaped like a snake.
  • serpentinely — in a serpentine fashion
  • serpentinite — a rock containing large quantities of serpentine
  • serpentinize — to convert (a mineral or rock) into serpentine.
  • serpentinous — of the nature of serpentine; containing or consisting of serpentine
  • servitorship — the office or position of a servitor; the condition of being a servitor
  • share option — A share option is an opportunity for the employees of a company to buy shares at a special price.
  • sharp-witted — having or showing mental acuity; intellectually discerning; acute.
  • ship's store — a retail store aboard a navy ship that sells toiletries, cigarettes, etc., to the ship's personnel.
  • short splice — a splice used when an increased thickness of the united rope is not objectionable, made by unlaying the rope ends a certain distance, uniting them so that their strands overlap, then tucking each alternately over and under others several times.
  • shrimp plant — a small, sprawling shrub, Justicia brandegeana (or Beloperone guttata), of the acanthus family, native to Mexico, having small white flowers protruding from a series of overlapping reddish bracts and often cultivated as a houseplant.
  • sidesplitter — something that is uproariously funny, as a joke or a situation.
  • silver plate — thin coat of silver
  • silver point — the melting point of silver, equal to 960.8°C, used as a fixed point on the international temperature scale.
  • silver-plate — to coat (base metal) with silver, especially by electroplating.
  • simple fruit — a fruit formed from one pistil.
  • simple meter — any time signature in which the upper figure indicates two, three, or four beats per measure, as 2/8, 3/2, 4/4, etc.
  • sinanthropus — the genus to which Peking man was formerly assigned.
  • single-party — of or relating to a form of government in which only a single political party constitutes the government
  • sitka spruce — a spruce, Picea sitchensis, of western North America, having long, silvery-white needles, grown as an ornamental.
  • slip through — be undetected
  • slipper bath — a bath in the shape of a slipper, with a covered end
  • slipper foot — an elongated pad foot.
  • soccer pitch — the field of play used in soccer
  • somatotropin — a hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland, that stimulates growth in humans.
  • somers point — a town in SE New Jersey.
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