12-letter words containing spo
- rough-spoken — coarse or vulgar in speech.
- sexual spore — a spore formed after the fusion of gametes and an asexual spore is the result of asexual reproduction
- short-spoken — speaking in a short, brief, or curt manner.
- silver spoon — spoon (def 16).
- spoil ground — an area within a body of water, especially in the sea, where dredged material is deposited.
- spokesperson — a person who speaks for another or for a group.
- sponge cloth — any cloth loosely woven of coarse yarn to produce a spongy look or texture, especially one constructed in honeycomb weave.
- sponged ware — spongeware.
- spongicolous — relating to the skeleton of some marine animals
- spongillafly — spongefly.
- spongioblast — one of the primordial cells in the embryonic brain and spinal cord capable of developing into neuroglia.
- spongologist — a person who studies sponges
- sponsorships — a person who vouches or is responsible for a person or thing.
- sporadically — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- sporangiolum — a small sporangium
- sporogenesis — the production of spores; sporogony.
- sporophorous — the state of being or functioning as a sporophore
- sport jacket — A sport jacket is the same as a sport coat.
- sportability — suitability to be used in or as a sport
- sportfishing — fishing with a rod and reel for sport, especially for saltwater sport fish from a motorboat.
- sporting dog — one of any of several breeds of usually large dogs especially suited by size and training for hunting by pointing, flushing, and retrieving game and including the pointers, setters, retrievers, and spaniels.
- sporting gun — a gun intended for hunting
- sports drink — a drink containing sugar and salts, etc designed to help replace fluid and energy lost through the physical exertion of sport
- sports shirt — a long- or short-sleeved soft shirt for informal wear by men, having a squared-off shirttail that may be left outside the trousers, usually worn without a tie.
- sportscaster — A sportscaster is a radio or television broadcaster who describes or comments on sporting events.
- sportsperson — athlete
- sportswriter — a journalist who reports on sports and sporting events.
- spot remover — a concentrated cleaning fluid used to remove small areas of staining, such as on a carpet
- spot welding — fusing metal
- spotlighting — a strong, focused light thrown upon a particular spot, as on a small area of a stage or in a television studio, for making some object, person, or group especially conspicuous.
- spotsylvania — a village in NE Virginia: the scene of Civil War battles between the armies of Grant and Lee, May 8–21, 1864.
- spotted cavy — paca.
- spotted deer — axis deer.
- spotted dick — a steamed or boiled suet pudding containing dried fruit
- spotted tail — (Sinte-galeshka) 1833?–81, Brulé Sioux leader.
- spotted wilt — a viral disease of plants, characterized by wilting and by brown, sunken spots and streaks on the stems and leaves.
- teleutospore — a spore of certain rust fungi, which carries the fungus through the winter and which, on germination, produces the promycelium.
- the bosporus — a strait between European and Asian Turkey, linking the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara
- trainspotter — A trainspotter is someone who is very interested in trains and spends time going to stations and recording the numbers of the trains that they see.
- transponible — capable of being transposed.
- transpontine — across or beyond a bridge.
- transportive — to carry, move, or convey from one place to another.
- trouble spot — an area in which trouble exists or is expected to develop: There are several diplomatic trouble spots in Central America.
- unresponding — to reply or answer in words: to respond briefly to a question.
- unresponsive — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
- up the spout — If you say that something is up the spout, you mean that it is wrong or it is no longer working.
- water sports — a sport played or practiced on or in water, as swimming, water polo, or surfing.
- williamsport — a city in central Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River.
- wooden spoon — A wooden spoon is a spoon that is used for stirring sauces and for mixing ingredients in cooking. It is made of wood and has a long handle.
- zoosporangia — Plural form of zoosporangium.