12-letter words containing d, e, p, r
- unexpurgated — to amend by removing words, passages, etc., deemed offensive or objectionable: Most children read an expurgated version of Grimms' fairy tales.
- unimportuned — without being forced or impelled
- unimprisoned — not confined in a prison
- united party — (formerly, in South Africa) the major opposition party, founded by General Smuts in 1934: the official Opposition in Parliament from 1948, the party was disbanded in 1977
- unparalleled — not paralleled; unequaled or unmatched; peerless; unprecedented: unparalleled athletic ability.
- unpardonable — kind indulgence, as in forgiveness of an offense or discourtesy or in tolerance of a distraction or inconvenience: I beg your pardon, but which way is Spruce Street?
- unpatronized — having few or no patrons
- unperforated — pierced with a hole or holes: Punch out along the perforated line.
- unpersecuted — not persecuted
- unpredicated — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
- unpredictive — of or relating to prediction: losing one's predictive power.
- unprejudiced — not prejudiced; without preconception; unbiased; impartial: the unprejudiced view of the judge.
- unprescribed — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
- unpretending — unpretentious; genuine
- unprincipled — lacking or not based on moral scruples or principles: an unprincipled person; unprincipled behavior.
- unprivileged — belonging to a class that enjoys special privileges; favored: the privileged few.
- unprocedural — not procedural, not following proper procedures
- unproclaimed — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
- unproductive — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- unprogrammed — a plan of action to accomplish a specified end: a school lunch program.
- unprohibited — to forbid (an action, activity, etc.) by authority or law: Smoking is prohibited here.
- unpronounced — strongly marked: a pronounced fishy taste.
- unpropertied — owning property: the propertied class.
- unprovokedly — in an unprovoked manner
- unredemptive — serving to redeem.
- unreproached — not reproached, criticized, or scolded
- unresponding — to reply or answer in words: to respond briefly to a question.
- unsculptured — not resembling a sculpture
- unsepulchred — not sepulchred
- unsupervised — to oversee (a process, work, workers, etc.) during execution or performance; superintend; have the oversight and direction of.
- unsuppressed — to put an end to the activities of (a person, body of persons, etc.): to suppress the Communist and certain left-leaning parties.
- untrespassed — Law. an unlawful act causing injury to the person, property, or rights of another, committed with force or violence, actual or implied. a wrongful entry upon the lands of another. the action to recover damages for such an injury.
- unworshipped — not worshipped; not admired or revered
- up-and-comer — likely to succeed; bright and industrious: an up-and-coming young executive.
- up-and-under — a high kick forwards followed by a charge to the place where the ball lands
- upper canada — a former British province in Canada 1791–1840: now the S part of Ontario province.
- van der post — Sir Laurens (Jan). 1906–96, South African writer and traveller. His works include the travel books Venture to the Interior (1952), The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958), and Testament to the Bushmen (1984) and the novels The Hunter and the Whale (1967) and The Admiral's Baby (1996)
- video piracy — the unauthorized or prohibited use of audio-visual works covered by copyright law, in a way that violates one of the copyright owner's exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works
- video player — VCR: videotape recorder
- video porn's — pornographic movies available on videocassette or optical disk, on the Internet, or on subscription television.
- videographer — a person who makes films with a video camera.
- vortex depth — The vortex depth is the depth below an impeller at which its influence can still be seen in a mixed fluid.
- warp-knitted — designating a fabric made by warp knitting.
- water spider — a Eurasian spider, Argyroneta aquatica, that spins a web in the form of an air-filled chamber in which it lives submerged in streams and ponds
- waterproofed — Having been made waterproof.
- well-reputed — reported or supposed to be such: the reputed author of a book.
- wild parsley — any of several uncultivated plants resembling the parsley in shape and structure.
- woodburytype — a process using gelatine film exposed to the negative, which is then pressed into lead and processed, or a print of this type
- woodchippers — Plural form of woodchipper.
- woodchoppers — Plural form of woodchopper.