12-letter words containing t, i, p, s, a
- reciprocates — to give, feel, etc., in return.
- relationship — a connection, association, or involvement.
- repristinate — to restore to the first or original state or condition.
- respite care — Respite care is short-term care that is provided for very old or very sick people so that the person who usually cares for them can have a break.
- respondentia — a loan upon a ship's cargo, which is repaid with interest if the ship reaches its destination, and if the ship does not, the loan is not repaid
- resupination — a resupinate condition.
- retainership — the condition of being a retainer or of having retainers.
- risk capital — venture capital.
- saddle point — a point at which a function of two variables has partial derivatives equal to zero but at which the function has neither a maximum nor a minimum value.
- safe-deposit — providing safekeeping for valuables: a safe-deposit vault.
- saint joseph — a city in NW Missouri, on the Missouri River.
- saint paul's — a cathedral in London, England: designed by Sir Christopher Wren.
- saint phalle — Niki de [nik-ee duh;; French nee-kee duh] /ˈnɪk i də;; French niˈki də/ (Show IPA), 1930–2002, French sculptor and painter.
- 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.
- salpingotomy — incision of a Fallopian tube.
- sample point — a possible result of an experiment, represented as a point.
- sandpainting — a type of painting done by American Indians, esp in the healing ceremonies of the Navaho, using fine coloured sand on a neutral ground
- saprophytism — living and feeding on dead organic matter
- satanophobia — a morbid fear of the devil or Satan
- scalp lotion — A scalp lotion is a liquid medication for the treatment of scalp conditions and disorders.
- scapegoating — the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself.
- scapegoatism — the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself.
- 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.
- scoptophilia — the obtaining of sexual pleasure by looking at nude bodies, erotic photographs, etc.
- 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.
- scripturally — (sometimes initial capital letter) of, relating to, or in accordance with sacred writings, especially the Scriptures.
- 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".
- seating plan — layout of seats at a venue or on transport
- seed capital — small sum invested in new business
- self-tapping — (of a screw) cutting its own thread when screwed into a plain hole in a metal sheet
- 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.
- septilateral — having seven sides.
- septuagesima — the third Sunday before Lent.
- septuplicate — a group, series, or set of seven identical copies (usually preceded by in).
- seringapatam — a town in S Karnataka, in S India, former capital of Mysore state: taken by the British 1799.
- serpentarium — a place where snakes are housed, especially for exhibition.
- sextuplicate — a group, series, or set of six identical copies: The application is to be submitted in sextuplicate.
- 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.
- 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.
- sieve-plates — an elongated cell whose walls contain perforations (sieve pores) that are arranged in circumscribed areas (sieve plates) and that afford communication with similar adjacent cells.
- silver plate — thin coat of silver
- silver-plate — to coat (base metal) with silver, especially by electroplating.