12-letter words containing a, r, e, p, t
- copperfasten — (transitive, historical) To protect the timbers [of a ship] with plates of copper secured with copper nails or bolts.
- copperplates — Plural form of copperplate.
- corporealist — a materialist
- corporeality — the state or quality of being corporeal; bodily existence
- cotemporally — At the same time.
- counterpanes — Plural form of counterpane.
- counterparts — a person or thing closely resembling another, especially in function: Our president is the counterpart of your prime minister.
- counterparty — a person who is a party to a contract
- counterplead — to plead the opposite of
- counterpleas — Plural form of counterplea.
- counterscarp — the outer side of the ditch of a fort
- counterstamp — a stamp added to a stamped paper or document as a qualifying mark.
- craftspeople — Craftspeople are people who make things skilfully with their hands.
- craftsperson — an artisan
- crape myrtle — an oriental lythraceous shrub, Lagerstroemia indica, cultivated in warm climates for its pink, red, or white flowers
- craw-thumper — an ostentatiously pious person
- crosspatches — Plural form of crosspatch.
- crymotherapy — cryotherapy.
- cryptanalyze — to study (a cryptogram) for the purpose of discovering the clear meaning; break (a code, cipher, etc.).
- cryptomerias — Plural form of cryptomeria.
- cryptomnesia — the reappearance of a suppressed or forgotten memory which is mistaken for a new experience
- curietherapy — a form of radiation therapy using radium
- curtail step — the step or steps at the foot of a flight of stairs, widened at one or both ends and terminated with a scroll
- curtail-step — a horizontal, spiral termination to the lower end of a stair railing.
- curtain pole — a pole from which a curtain is hung in front of a window, door, etc
- cyberspastic — (humour) A person suffering from information overload while browsing the Internet or web. Compare webhead.
- d-s particle — a positively charged meson having a mass 3852 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 4.7 X 10 -13 seconds.
- daguerrotype — Misspelling of daguerreotype.
- danger point — the point at which something ceases to be safe
- data capture — any process for converting information into a form that can be handled by a computer
- deaspiration — the act of deaspirating
- death spiral — a period of continuous deterioration that leads ultimately to catastrophic failure or destruction
- deckle strap — a strap on each edge of the moving web of paper on a paper-making machine that fixes the width of the paper
- decrepitated — Simple past tense and past participle of decrepitate.
- decrepitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decrepitate.
- deep therapy — radiotherapy with very penetrating short-wave radiation
- deepwaterman — a ship that goes far out to sea and into deep water
- delta-prolog — A Prolog extension with AND-parallelism, don't-know nondeterminism and interprocess communication using synchronous event goals and distributed backtracking.
- departmental — Departmental is used to describe the activities, responsibilities, or possessions of a department in a government, company, or other organization.
- dephlegmator — an apparatus used for dephlegmation
- depilatories — Plural form of depilatory.
- deportations — Plural form of deportation.
- depositaries — Plural form of depositary.
- depreciating — Present participle of depreciate.
- depreciation — the reduction in value of a fixed asset due to use, obsolescence, etc
- depreciative — Tending to depreciate (in value etc.).
- depreciatory — tending to depreciate.
- depredations — the act of preying upon or plundering; robbery; ravage.
- deprivations — Plural form of deprivation.
- deprotonated — Simple past tense and past participle of deprotonate.