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12-letter words containing a, n, t, i, p

  • expediential — Governed by expediency; seeking advantage.
  • expeditation — the act of expeditating a dog
  • experiential — Involving or based on experience and observation.
  • experimental — (of a new invention or product) based on untested ideas or techniques and not yet established or finalized.
  • explanations — Plural form of explanation.
  • explantation — The act of explanting.
  • explications — Plural form of explication.
  • exploitation — The action or fact of treating someone unfairly in order to benefit from their work.
  • explorations — Plural form of exploration.
  • exponentiate — (mathematics) To utilize exponentiation.
  • expositional — Explained in clear terms, as in writing.
  • exprobration — the act of reproaching
  • expugnations — Plural form of expugnation.
  • exspoliation — (obsolete) spoliation.
  • extracampine — (psychiatry, of hallucination) Beyond the possible sensory field.
  • extropianism — Belief in, or support for, the theory of extropy.
  • finger paint — paint children apply with fingers
  • finger-paint — a jellylike paint, used chiefly by children in painting, usually with their fingers.
  • firing party — a military detachment detailed to fire a salute at a funeral
  • flag captain — the captain of a flagship
  • flavoprotein — an enzyme, containing riboflavin and linked chemically with a protein, active in the oxidation of foods in animal cells.
  • fortepianist — the player of a fortepiano
  • fountain pen — a pen with a refillable reservoir that provides a continuous supply of usually fluid ink to its point.
  • gap junction — a linkage of two adjacent cells consisting of a system of channels extending across a gap from one cell to the other, allowing the passage of ions and small molecules.
  • geopotential — the difference between the potential energy of a mass at a given altitude and the potential energy of an identical mass at sea level, equivalent to the energy required to move the mass from sea level to the given altitude.
  • giant planet — any of the planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, characterized by large mass, low density, and an extensive atmosphere
  • giant powder — dynamite composed of nitroglycerin and kieselguhr.
  • giftwrapping — giftwrapping.
  • gold-plating — the incorporation of costly and unnecessary features or refinements into a product or structure.
  • gonadotropic — pertaining to substances formed in the anterior pituitary gland that affect the activity of the ovary or testis.
  • gonadotropin — a gonadotropic substance.
  • gramophonist — a person who uses a gramophone
  • granite peak — the highest elevation in Montana, in the S part. 12,799 feet (3901 meters).
  • grease paint — an oily mixture of melted tallow or grease and a pigment, used by actors, clowns, etc., for making up their faces.
  • great plains — a semiarid region E of the Rocky Mountains, in the U.S. and Canada.
  • haemoprotein — Alternative spelling of hemoprotein.
  • hair implant — the insertion of synthetic fibers or human hair into the scalp to cover baldness.
  • haliplankton — plankton living in sea water
  • hand-painted — painted by a person rather than a machine
  • hand-printed — (of numbers, letters, or designs) printed, or put on a surface, by hand rather than by machine
  • hanging post — a post from which a door, gate, etc., is hung.
  • hanging step — a step projecting from a wall with no real or apparent support at its outer end.
  • haptoglobins — Plural form of haptoglobin.
  • have pity on — to have sympathy or show mercy for
  • hemiplankton — plankton that spend part of their life cycle in a vegetative state on the sea bottom, riverbed, etc. (opposed to holoplankton).
  • hepatization — the transformation of tissue into a liver-like substance, esp of the lungs in pneumonia
  • hepatotoxins — Plural form of hepatotoxin.
  • hernioplasty — an operation for the repair of a hernia.
  • hierophantic — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
  • hippocentaur — Centaur.
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