12-letter words containing a, p, e, l, i
- unreciprocal — given or felt by each toward the other; mutual: reciprocal respect.
- unrepairable — that cannot be repaired: Some old clocks are unrepairable.
- unsplittable — to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
- unstipulated — to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of agreement (often followed by for).
- valpolicella — a dry, red table wine from the Veneto region of northern Italy.
- valve spring — a helical spring used to hold closed a valve in the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine
- vanity plate — a vehicle license plate bearing a combination of letters or numbers requested by the licensee, as a name or occupation.
- variocoupler — a transformer having coils with a self-impedance that is essentially constant but a mutual impedance that can be varied by moving one coil with respect to the other.
- velocipedean — someone who rides a velocipede
- velociraptor — a small carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Velociraptor , from the late Cretaceous period, capable of leaping, and growing to a length of about 6 feet (2 meters), having feathers, a flat snout, short forelimbs with large handlike talons, and a large sickle-shaped claw on each foot.
- vespertilian — of, relating to, or resembling a bat
- video player — VCR: videotape recorder
- viola player — someone who plays the viola
- voltaic pile — an early battery cell, consisting of several metal disks, each made of one of two dissimilar metals, arranged in an alternating series, and separated by pads moistened with an electrolyte.
- wages policy — a government policy setting wages and wage increases for workers, for example, setting minimum wage requirements
- walking pace — the speed at which someone walks
- walled plain — a circular or almost circular area on the moon, sometimes with a floor that is depressed, usually partially enclosed by walls that rise to varying heights and that are usually lower than those of a crater.
- wallpapering — Present participle of wallpaper.
- water pistol — a toy gun that shoots a stream of liquid.
- webliography — a list of electronic documents, websites, or other resources available on the World Wide Web, especially those relating to a particular subject: a student's annotated webliography on Shakespeare.
- white plague — tuberculosis, especially pulmonary tuberculosis.
- white plains — a city in SE New York, near New York City: battle 1776.
- white poplar — Also called abele. an Old World poplar, Populus alba, widely cultivated in the U.S., having the underside of the leaves covered with a dense silvery-white down.
- wild parsley — any of several uncultivated plants resembling the parsley in shape and structure.
- wranglership — (at Cambridge University) the position of a wrangler