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

  • 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
  • trunk piston — a piston with a long skirt to take the side thrust, as in an automobile engine.
  • 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.
  • typographist — a person skilled in the art of typography
  • 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
  • unprettiness — the state of quality of being ugly, unattractive, or unbecoming
  • unpropitious — presenting favorable conditions; favorable: propitious weather.
  • 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.
  • unrespective — not attentive; unheeding
  • unscriptural — not scriptural
  • unsupporting — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
  • unsupportive — giving support.
  • upright bass — double bass
  • vanity press — a printing house that specializes in publishing books for which the authors pay all or most of the costs.
  • velcro strip — a strip or roll of Velcro, able to be cut to the required length
  • vespertilian — of, relating to, or resembling a bat
  • victory ship — a fast, turbine-powered cargo ship of World War II, having a capacity of about 11,000 dead-weight tons.
  • virtuosoship — the condition of being a virtuoso; the activities of a virtuoso
  • 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 sprite — a sprite or spirit inhabiting the water, as an undine.
  • 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.
  • whippletrees — Plural form of whippletree.
  • white spirit — White spirit is a colourless liquid that is made from petrol and is used, for example, to make paint thinner or to clean surfaces.
  • white spruce — a spruce, Picea glauca, of northern North America, having bluish-green needles and silvery-brown bark.
  • williamsport — a city in central Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River.
  • with-profits — A with-profits savings scheme or financial plan is one in which the people who put money into the scheme receive extra money each year based on how successful the investment has been.
  • world spirit — (often initial capital letters) God.
  • xiphisternum — The lowest part of the sternum; the xiphoid process.
  • zip fastener — a zipper.
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