12-letter words containing u, n, p, i
- reproduction — the act or process of reproducing.
- reputational — the estimation in which a person or thing is held, especially by the community or the public generally; repute: a man of good reputation.
- resupination — a resupinate condition.
- resuspension — the act of suspending.
- retropulsion — an abnormal tendency to walk backwards: a symptom of Parkinson's disease
- rice pudding — dessert made from rice and milk
- run in place — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- running jump — a jump made after running a short distance
- running pine — a ground pine, Lycopodium clavatum.
- rustproofing — the process of making metal rustproof.
- sago pudding — a sweet pudding made with sago and milk
- saint paul's — a cathedral in London, England: designed by Sir Christopher Wren.
- sapindaceous — belonging to the Sapindaceae, the soapberry family of plants.
- scapulimancy — divination of the future by observation of the cracking of a mammal's scapula that has been heated by a fire or hot instrument.
- scouring pad — a small pad, as of steel wool or plastic mesh, used for scouring pots, pans, etc.
- serpentarium — a place where snakes are housed, especially for exhibition.
- serpentinous — of the nature of serpentine; containing or consisting of serpentine
- shipbuilding — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
- show jumping — sport: horseriding event
- sinanthropus — the genus to which Peking man was formerly assigned.
- slopping out — In prisons where prisoners have to use buckets as toilets, slopping out is the practice in which they empty the buckets.
- slumpflation — a situation in which economic depression is combined with increasing inflation
- snow pudding — a pudding, prepared by folding egg whites into a lemon gelatin mixture.
- soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
- spaciousness — containing much space, as a house, room, or vehicle; amply large.
- spade guinea — a guinea decorated with a spade-shaped shield, coined during the reign of George III
- speciousness — apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible: specious arguments.
- spermagonium — Botany, Mycology. spermogonium.
- spermogonium — one of the cup-shaped or flask-shaped receptacles in which the spermatia of certain fungi and red algae are produced.
- spiderhunter — any of several sunbirds of the genus Arachnothera, of southern Asia and the East Indies, having dull-colored plumage and a long bill.
- spinal fluid — cerebrospinal fluid
- spinulescent — producing spines
- spiral-bound — having a spiral binding.
- spitefulness — full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: a spiteful child.
- spoil ground — an area within a body of water, especially in the sea, where dredged material is deposited.
- spongicolous — relating to the skeleton of some marine animals
- sporangiolum — a small sporangium
- sporting gun — a gun intended for hunting
- spud-bashing — the task of peeling potatoes, given as a punishment
- spun-bonding — a process for forming nonwoven fabrics, usually of limited durability, by bonding continuous-filament synthetic fibers immediately after extrusion.
- spur gearing — a system of spur gears.
- sputteringly — in a sputtering manner
- square piano — a piano with a rectangular, horizontal body.
- standing cup — a tall decorative cup of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, having a raised cover.
- stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
- stirrup bone — the stapes, one of the three bones of the middle ear
- stockpunisht — punished by being put in stocks
- stupefacient — stupefying; producing stupor.
- stupefaction — the state of being stupefied; stupor.
- stupefyingly — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.