12-letter words containing u, n, s, o, p
- repercussion — an effect or result, often indirect or remote, of some event or action: The repercussions of the quarrel were widespread.
- resupination — a resupinate condition.
- resuspension — the act of suspending.
- retropulsion — an abnormal tendency to walk backwards: a symptom of Parkinson's disease
- rough-spoken — coarse or vulgar in speech.
- rustproofing — the process of making metal rustproof.
- sago pudding — a sweet pudding made with sago and milk
- sapindaceous — belonging to the Sapindaceae, the soapberry family of plants.
- sarrusophone — a metal double-reed wind instrument with a conical bore, related to the oboe and used especially in military bands.
- scapulomancy — divination of the future by observation of the cracking of a mammal's scapula that has been heated by a fire or hot instrument.
- schopenhauer — Arthur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1788–1860, German philosopher.
- scouring pad — a small pad, as of steel wool or plastic mesh, used for scouring pots, pans, etc.
- seropurulent — composed of or containing both serum and pus
- serpentinous — of the nature of serpentine; containing or consisting of serpentine
- sharp tongue — If you say that someone has a sharp tongue, you are critical of the fact that they say things which are unkind though often clever.
- show jumping — sport: horseriding event
- sinanthropus — the genus to which Peking man was formerly assigned.
- sleep around — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
- 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.
- soup to nuts — (of a meal) complete or impressive in number of courses.
- soup-to-nuts — (of a meal) complete or impressive in number of courses.
- spaciousness — containing much space, as a house, room, or vehicle; amply large.
- speciousness — apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible: specious arguments.
- speech sound — any of the set of distinctive sounds of a given language. Compare phoneme.
- 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.
- spiral-bound — having a spiral binding.
- 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
- spun-bonding — a process for forming nonwoven fabrics, usually of limited durability, by bonding continuous-filament synthetic fibers immediately after extrusion.
- square piano — a piano with a rectangular, horizontal body.
- stand up for — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
- stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
- stenophagous — (of an animal) feeding on a limited variety of foods (opposed to euryphagous).
- stirrup bone — the stapes, one of the three bones of the middle ear
- stockpunisht — punished by being put in stocks
- strophanthus — any of various shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Strophanthus, of the dogbane family, chiefly of tropical Africa.
- stumpknocker — spotted sunfish.
- stunt person — a stunt man or stunt woman.
- stupefaction — the state of being stupefied; stupor.
- stupendously — causing amazement; astounding; marvelous: stupendous news.
- subcomponent — a constituent part; element; ingredient.
- subinspector — a secondary or assistant inspector
- subscription — a sum of money given or pledged as a contribution, payment, investment, etc.
- suction pump — a pump for raising water or other fluids by suction, consisting essentially of a vertical cylinder in which a piston works up and down, both the cylinder and the pump having valves that control the flow of the fluid.