12-letter words containing u, p, s, e, t
- supraprotest — an acceptance or a payment of a bill by a third person after protest for nonacceptance or nonpayment by the drawee.
- susceptivity — receptive.
- take up arms — Usually, arms. weapons, especially firearms.
- tape measure — a long, flexible strip or ribbon, as of cloth or metal, marked with subdivisions of the foot or meter and used for measuring.
- tech support — an advising and troubleshooting service provided by a manufacturer, typically a software or hardware developer, to its customers, often online or on the telephone.
- telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
- teleutospore — a spore of certain rust fungi, which carries the fungus through the winter and which, on germination, produces the promycelium.
- temporaneous — lasting a short while
- tempus fugit — time flies
- tetrapterous — Zoology. having four wings or winglike appendages.
- the bosporus — a strait between European and Asian Turkey, linking the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara
- the dustheap — obscurity or oblivion
- the pictures — a cinema or film show
- the populars — cheap newspapers with mass circulation; the popular press
- theophrastus — 372?–287 b.c, Greek philosopher.
- therapeutics — a therapeutic substance.
- therapeutist — a person trained in the use of physical methods, as exercises, heat treatments, etc., in treating or rehabilitating the sick or wounded or helping patients overcome physical defects.
- thiosulphate — any salt of thiosulphuric acid
- time capsule — a receptacle containing documents or objects typical of the current period, placed in the earth or in a cornerstone for discovery in the future.
- tissue paper — a very thin, almost transparent paper used for wrapping delicate articles, covering illustrations in books, copying letters, etc.
- top security — ultra secure
- trachypterus — a dealfish or ribbonfish
- transumptive — of or relating to transumption
- trepidatious — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
- tricephalous — with three heads
- tricuspidate — having three cusps or flaps.
- trouble spot — an area in which trouble exists or is expected to develop: There are several diplomatic trouble spots in Central America.
- trouser clip — a clip that is worn around the bottom of a trouser leg to stop the material getting caught in the chain of a bicycle
- typhus-fever — an acute, infectious disease caused by several species of Rickettsia, transmitted by lice and fleas, and characterized by acute prostration, headache, and a peculiar eruption of reddish spots on the body.
- ultraprecise — extremely accurate
- un-disrupted — to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
- under-script — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
- undispatched — not dispatched; not delivered or sent out
- undisputable — capable of being disputed; debatable; questionable.
- undisputedly — to engage in argument or debate.
- undissipated — indulging in or characterized by excessive devotion to pleasure; intemperate; dissolute.
- unhospitable — not hospitable
- unit process — any of a number of standard operations, such as filtration or distillation, that are widely used in various chemical and process industries
- unit's place — unit (def 8).
- unnilseptium — bohrium.
- unpassionate — having, compelled by, or ruled by intense emotion or strong feeling; fervid: a passionate advocate of socialism.
- unpersecuted — not persecuted
- unpleasantry — an unpleasant word, action, comment, etc.: comments filled with unpleasantries.
- unpoliteness — the quality or state of being impolite
- unprettiness — the state of quality of being ugly, unattractive, or unbecoming
- unprotesting — an expression or declaration of objection, disapproval, or dissent, often in opposition to something a person is powerless to prevent or avoid: a protest against increased taxation.
- unrespectful — full of, characterized by, or showing politeness or deference: a respectful reply.
- unrespective — not attentive; unheeding
- unsculptured — not resembling a sculpture