12-letter words containing u, p, s, e, t
- octosepalous — having or consisting of eight sepals
- on the stump — If politicians are on the stump, they are campaigning for an election.
- open cluster — a comparatively young, irregularly shaped group of stars, often numbering up to several hundred, and held together by mutual gravitation; usually found along the central plane of the Milky Way and other galaxies.
- oreopithecus — a genus of fossil primate from the Miocene coal deposits of Italy, formerly considered to be a possible hominid.
- orthopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Orthoptera, an order of insects, including the cockroaches, mantids, walking sticks, crickets, grasshoppers, and katydids, characterized by leathery forewings, membranous hind wings, and chewing mouthparts.
- out of phase — in an unsynchronized way
- out of shape — person: unfit
- outside loop — a loop during which the back of the airplane is on the outer side of the curve described by the course of flight.
- outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
- pansexualist — someone who is pansexual
- pansexuality — Psychiatry. pertaining to the theory that all human behavior is based on sexuality.
- particulates — very small particles of a substance, esp those that are produced when fuel is burned
- pasteurising — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
- pasture land — grassland used for grazing
- pasture rose — a bristly-stemmed rose, Rosa carolina, of the eastern U.S., having slender, straight thorns and large, solitary, rose-pink flowers.
- pastures new — If someone leaves for greener pastures, or in British English pastures new, they leave their job, their home, or the situation they are in for something they think will be much better.
- pause button — a button on a video or music player which can be pressed to temporarily stop the playing of the recording
- paying guest — lodger
- penguin suit — a man's formal evening suit
- percutaneous — administered, removed, or absorbed by way of the skin, as an injection, needle biopsy, or transdermal drug.
- perfusionist — a medical technician or nurse who monitors and operates equipment that oxygenates the blood, as during open-heart surgery
- perineuritis — inflammation of the perineurium
- periostracum — the external, chitinlike covering of the shell of certain mollusks that protects the limy portion from acids.
- peritrichous — (of bacteria) having a uniform distribution of flagella over the body surface.
- perpetualism — a belief in the permanence of a given thing; the belief that a given thing (e.g. the world, a political system) will last forever
- perpetualist — someone who holds to any form of perpetualism
- perquisition — an intensive and meticulous examination, pursuit, or hunt for something
- pertinacious — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
- petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
- petrobrusian — a member of a 12th-century sect in S France that rejected the Mass, infant baptism, prayers for the dead, sacerdotalism, the veneration of the cross, and the building of churches.
- phillumenist — a collector of matchbooks and matchboxes.
- phosphureted — combined with phosphorus, especially in its lowest valence state.
- picture desk — the department at a magazine or newspaper publisher, that deals with photographs for the paper or magazine
- picture disc — a phonograph record with a picture on the vinyl.
- picture sash — a large window sash, as for a picture window.
- picture show — motion picture.
- pisciculture — the breeding, rearing, and transplantation of fish by artificial means.
- platanaceous — relating to the family Platanaceae
- plattdeutsch — the Low German vernacular dialects spoken in northern Germany.
- plecopterous — relating to the order Plecoptera or stoneflies
- pneumatocyst — the cavity of a pneumatophore.
- pneumocystis — any protozoan of the genus Pneumocystis, esp P. carinii, which is a cause of pneumonia in people whose immune defences have been lowered by drugs or a disease
- pocket mouse — any of numerous burrowing rodents, especially of the genus Perognathus, chiefly inhabiting arid regions of the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico, having fur-lined cheek pouches and a long tail.
- point source — a source of radiation sufficiently distant compared to its length and width that it can be considered as a point.
- pollutedness — the state of being polluted
- polychaetous — of or relating to the genus Polychaeta
- polyneuritis — inflammation of several nerves at the same time; multiple neuritis.
- polyoestrous — polyestrous.
- polypetalous — having a corolla of separate petals.
- portentously — of the nature of a portent; momentous.