12-letter words containing u, s, r, p, e
- supersurgeon — a highly skilled surgeon
- supervenient — to take place or occur as something additional or extraneous (sometimes followed by on or upon).
- supervention — to take place or occur as something additional or extraneous (sometimes followed by on or upon).
- suppletorily — supplying a deficiency.
- supply-sider — a person, especially an economist, who advocates supply-side economics.
- support area — a minimum price below which a specific stock is not supposed to fall, as because of the stock's inherent worth.
- support hose — elastic stockings worn to reduce pressure on the veins of the leg, esp for people with varicose veins
- suppressedly — in a suppressed manner
- suppressible — to put an end to the activities of (a person, body of persons, etc.): to suppress the Communist and certain left-leaning parties.
- supramundane — transcending the world
- supraprotest — an acceptance or a payment of a bill by a third person after protest for nonacceptance or nonpayment by the drawee.
- suspensorial — relating to a suspensorium
- suspensorium — a part that supports or suspends, esp the mandibular suspensorium, which suspends the lower jaw from the skull
- 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
- 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 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.
- 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.
- un-purposely — intentionally; deliberately: He tripped me purposely.
- under-script — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
- underexposed — If a photograph is underexposed, it is darker than it should be because the film was not exposed to enough light.
- underpassion — an underlying or subconscious passion
- undersparred — having spars too small to carry the necessary sail.
- underspecify — to mention or name specifically or definitely; state in detail: He did not specify the amount needed.
- undespairing — not despairing; not giving in to despair
- unexpressive — not expressive; lacking in expression of meaning, feeling, etc.: a bland and unexpressive person.
- unimpressive — having the ability to impress the mind; arousing admiration, awe, respect, etc.; moving; admirable: an impressive ceremony; an impressive appearance.
- unimprisoned — not confined in a prison
- unit process — any of a number of standard operations, such as filtration or distillation, that are widely used in various chemical and process industries