12-Letter Words Containing: _,_,A,O,R,S,T,T

• orchid growing along streams or ponds of western North America having leafy stems and 1 greenish-brown and pinkish flower in the axil of each upper leaf

• an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker

• a selection of passages from different authors that is compiled as an aid in learning a language

• The hindmost of the three sections of the thorax of an insect, carrying the posterior pair of legs and the hindwings when present.

• clear out the chest and lungs

• discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs and out of the mouth

• a medicine promoting expectoration

• a surgical operation that creates an opening into the trachea with a tube inserted to provide a passage for air; performed when the pharynx is obstructed by edema or cancer or other causes

• a communication intended to urge or persuade the recipients to take some action

• the act of exhorting; an earnest attempt at persuasion

• (physics) the property of a body that determines the fraction of the incident radiation or sound flux absorbed or absorbable by the body