12-letter words containing t, i, p, a
- sphragistics — the scientific study of seals or signet rings.
- spider plant — Also called ribbon plant. a plant, Chlorophytum comosum, of the lily family, native to southern Africa, that has long, narrow leaves and clusters of white flowers and is widely cultivated as a houseplant.
- spiflication — rough treatment
- spin casting — spinning (def 3).
- spinach beet — chard, a plant cultivated for its edible leaves
- spiritualism — the belief or doctrine that the spirits of the dead, surviving after the mortal life, can and do communicate with the living, especially through a person (a medium) particularly susceptible to their influence.
- spiritualist — an adherent of spiritualism.
- spirituality — the quality or fact of being spiritual.
- spiritualize — to make spiritual.
- spirochaetal — resulting from spirochaetes
- spit-roasted — cooked on a spit
- splenization — the transformation of something into a spleenlike tissue
- spongioblast — one of the primordial cells in the embryonic brain and spinal cord capable of developing into neuroglia.
- sportability — suitability to be used in or as a sport
- spotsylvania — a village in NE Virginia: the scene of Civil War battles between the armies of Grant and Lee, May 8–21, 1864.
- spotted tail — (Sinte-galeshka) 1833?–81, Brulé Sioux leader.
- spray millet — the seeds of millet left on the spike and sold in pet shops for cage birds.
- spring catch — a catch for an interior or cabinet door that has a bolt operated by a spring.
- spring water — water from natural underground source
- stabilograph — an instrument for measuring body sway.
- staging post — an area, as a port of embarkation, where troops are assembled and readied for transit to a new field of operations.
- standing cup — a tall decorative cup of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, having a raised cover.
- standpattism — belief in or the practice of resisting or refusing to accept change, especially in politics.
- state police — a police force under state authority rather than under the authority of a city or county in the state.
- state prison — a prison maintained by a state for the confinement of felons.
- stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
- stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
- stereoptican — a projector usually consisting of two complete lanterns arranged so that one picture appears to dissolve while the next is forming.
- stipulaceous — of, relating to, having, resembling, or living on stipules
- stirrup-vase — a Mycenaean vase having a spherical body, a spout on the shoulder, and a handle, curving across the top, supported by a solid conical neck.
- stocking cap — a long, conical, knitted cap, usually with a tassel or pompon at the tip.
- straight pin — pin (sense 2)
- stratigraphy — a branch of geology dealing with the classification, nomenclature, correlation, and interpretation of stratified rocks.
- strepitation — the quality or state of being strepitant
- stride piano — a style of jazz piano playing in which the right hand plays the melody while the left hand plays a single bass note or octave on the strong beat and a chord on the weak beat, developed in Harlem during the 1920s, partly from ragtime piano playing.
- strike plate — strike (def 67).
- strip-search — to search (a suspect who has been required to remove all clothing) especially for concealed weapons, contraband, or evidence of drug abuse.
- striped bass — an important American game fish, Morone saxatilis, having blackish stripes along each side.
- strophanthin — a very poisonous, bitter glycoside or mixture of glycosides obtained from the dried, ripe seeds of a strophanthus, especially Strophanthus kombe, used as a cardiac stimulant.
- strophiolate — having a strophiole
- stupefacient — stupefying; producing stupor.
- stupefaction — the state of being stupefied; stupor.
- stupefactive — serving to stupefy.
- stylographic — of or relating to a stylograph.
- sub-tropical — Sub-tropical places have a climate that is warm and wet, and are often near tropical regions.
- subapostolic — of or relating to the era after that of the Apostles
- subduplicate — of the square root of ratios
- suboccipital — situated below the occipital bone or the occipital lobe of the brain.
- subspecialty — a lesser or minor specialty: a cinematographer with a subspecialty of portrait photography.
- suicide pact — an agreement between two or more people to commit suicide together.