12-letter words containing u, p, s, e, t
- rescue party — a group of people who attempt to rescue, find or save a person or people for danger, esp a person or people who have got lost while mountain climbing
- respectfully — full of, characterized by, or showing politeness or deference: a respectful reply.
- resupination — a resupinate condition.
- retropulsion — an abnormal tendency to walk backwards: a symptom of Parkinson's disease
- retropulsive — of or relating to retropulsion
- reupholstery — the materials used to cushion and cover furniture.
- rubber stamp — handheld printing tool
- rubber-stamp — to imprint with a rubber stamp.
- rumble strip — one of a series of rough or slightly raised strips of pavement on a highway, intended to slow down the speed of vehicles, as before a toll booth.
- self-support — the supporting or maintaining of oneself or itself without reliance on outside aid.
- separate out — filter, sift
- septuagesima — the third Sunday before Lent.
- septuplicate — a group, series, or set of seven identical copies (usually preceded by in).
- seropurulent — composed of or containing both serum and pus
- serpentarium — a place where snakes are housed, especially for exhibition.
- serpentinous — of the nature of serpentine; containing or consisting of serpentine
- sextuplicate — a group, series, or set of six identical copies: The application is to be submitted in sextuplicate.
- 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.
- shoot-'em-up — a motion-picture or television program that emphasizes gunplay, action, and often violence.
- simple fruit — a fruit formed from one pistil.
- sitka spruce — a spruce, Picea sitchensis, of western North America, having long, silvery-white needles, grown as an ornamental.
- sivapithecus — a genus of extinct Miocene primates of Asia that resemble the modern orangutan.
- somatopleure — the double layer formed by the association of the upper layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the overlying ectoderm, functioning in the formation of the body wall and amnion.
- soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
- south platte — a river flowing NE from central Colorado to the Platte River in W Nebraska. 424 miles (683 km) long.
- speculatrice — a female speculator
- spiderhunter — any of several sunbirds of the genus Arachnothera, of southern Asia and the East Indies, having dull-colored plumage and a long bill.
- spinulescent — producing spines
- spirit guide — type of mystical guardian
- spiritualize — to make spiritual.
- spitefulness — full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: a spiteful child.
- splatterpunk — a form of fiction featuring extremely graphic violence.
- sputteringly — in a sputtering manner
- stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
- steatopygous — extreme accumulation of fat on and about the buttocks, especially of women.
- stegocarpous — (of a moss) belonging to the division Stegocarpi, having an operculate capsule
- stenophagous — (of an animal) feeding on a limited variety of foods (opposed to euryphagous).
- stepdaughter — a daughter of one's husband or wife by a previous marriage.
- stipulaceous — of, relating to, having, resembling, or living on stipules
- stirrup bone — the stapes, one of the three bones of the middle ear
- 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.
- striped drum — a North American marine and freshwater sciaenid fish, Equetus pulcher, that utters a drumming sound
- student lamp — a table lamp whose light source can be adjusted in height.
- study period — a period of time or lesson used for studying
- stump speech — a political campaign speech, especially one made on a campaign tour.
- stumpknocker — spotted sunfish.
- stunt person — a stunt man or stunt woman.
- stupefacient — stupefying; producing stupor.
- stupefaction — the state of being stupefied; stupor.
- stupefactive — serving to stupefy.