12-letter words containing d, e, p, r
- fortified pa — a Māori hilltop dwelling with trenches and palisades for defensive occupation
- foundry type — type cast in individual characters for setting by hand.
- fried potato — Fried potatoes are pieces of potato cooked in oil or fat.
- full powered — (of a vessel) relying on engines for propulsion without assistance from sails.
- garbage dump — rubbish tip, place where refuse is disposed of
- garden party — a party given out of doors in a garden or yard.
- gas-operated — (of a firearm) using some of the exhaust gases to operate the action.
- geopressured — subject to geostatic pressure.
- giant powder — dynamite composed of nitroglycerin and kieselguhr.
- gift-wrapped — A gift-wrapped present is wrapped in pretty paper.
- glycerolipid — (organic chemistry) Any lipid based on glycerol.
- gold therapy — administration of gold salts as a treatment for disease, especially rheumatoid arthritis.
- golden perch — a freshwater food fish, Plectroplites ambiguus, that inhabits inland waters of Australia.
- golden syrup — treacle (def 2b).
- grace period — a period of time after a payment becomes due, as of a loan or life-insurance premium, before one is subject to penalties or late charges or before the loan or policy is canceled.
- graduateship — the time or condition of being a graduate
- grandnephews — Plural form of grandnephew.
- grandparents — a parent of a parent.
- ground plane — (in perspective drawing) the theoretical horizontal plane receding from the picture plane to the horizon, beginning at the level of the base line.
- ground plate — Electricity. a metal plate for making a ground connection to the earth.
- groundkeeper — groundskeeper.
- gypsy driver — the driver of a gypsy cab
- hairpin bend — A hairpin bend or a hairpin is a very sharp bend in a road, where the road turns back in the opposite direction.
- hand-printed — (of numbers, letters, or designs) printed, or put on a surface, by hand rather than by machine
- handicappers — Plural form of handicapper.
- handypersons — Plural form of handyperson.
- hard pressed — heavily burdened or oppressed, as by overwork or financial difficulties; harried; put-upon.
- hard-pressed — heavily burdened or oppressed, as by overwork or financial difficulties; harried; put-upon.
- harper woods — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- heart-shaped — shaped like a stylized heart with a double rounded top
- helicoptered — Simple past tense and past participle of helicopter.
- heliographed — Simple past tense and past participle of heliograph.
- hemispheroid — half of a spheroid.
- hepadnavirus — Any member of the virus family Hepadnaviridae, capable of causing liver infections in humans and animals.
- heptahedrons — Plural form of heptahedron.
- heptahydrate — a hydrate that contains seven molecules of water, as magnesium sulfate, MgSO 4 ⋅7H 2 O.
- heteroduplex — having polynucleotide strands derived from two different sources
- heteroploidy — (genetics) The state of being heteroploid.
- hidropoiesis — the production of sweat.
- high-powered — extremely energetic, dynamic, and capable: high-powered executives.
- horned poppy — any of several Eurasian papaveraceous plants of the genera Glaucium and Roemeria, having large brightly coloured flowers and long curved seed capsules
- horned viper — a highly venomous viper, Cerastes cerastes, of northern Africa and extreme southwestern Asia, having a process resembling a horn just above each eye.
- horsewhipped — Simple past tense and past participle of horsewhip.
- hot-tempered — easily angered; short-tempered.
- house spider — any largish dark spider of the genus Tegenaria that is common in houses, such as the cardinal spider
- hydnocarpate — a salt or ester of hydnocarpic acid.
- hydrocephaly — an accumulation of serous fluid within the cranium, especially in infancy, due to obstruction of the movement of cerebrospinal fluid, often causing great enlargement of the head; water on the brain.
- hydrographer — the science of the measurement, description, and mapping of the surface waters of the earth, with special reference to their use for navigation.
- hydrophilite — a white mineral consisting of potassium and calcium
- hydrotherapy — the branch of therapeutics that deals with the curative use of water.