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12-letter words containing e, a, p, r

  • garnet paper — an abrasive paper coated with pulverized garnet.
  • gas-operated — (of a firearm) using some of the exhaust gases to operate the action.
  • gastroscopes — Plural form of gastroscope.
  • genappe yarn — a worsted yarn that has been genapped and made smooth and lustrous.
  • gene therapy — the application of genetic engineering to the transplantation of genes into human cells in order to cure a disease caused by a genetic defect, as a missing enzyme.
  • general shop — a shop that sells various types of goods
  • generalships — Plural form of generalship.
  • geographical — of or relating to geography.
  • georgia pine — longleaf pine.
  • germanophile — a person who is friendly toward or admires or studies Germany or German culture.
  • germanophobe — a person who hates or fears Germany, Germans, or German culture.
  • giant powder — dynamite composed of nitroglycerin and kieselguhr.
  • gift-wrapped — A gift-wrapped present is wrapped in pretty paper.
  • glacier peak — a volcanic mountain in NW central Washington, in the Cascade range. 10,541 feet (3213 meters).
  • gold therapy — administration of gold salts as a treatment for disease, especially rheumatoid arthritis.
  • gopher snake — a bullsnake, Pituophis melanoleucus, of western North America, that invades burrows to prey on rodents.
  • gopher state — Minnesota (used as a nickname).
  • grace hopper — (person)   US Navy Rear Admiral Grace Brewster Hopper (1906-12-09 to 1992-01-01), née Grace Brewster Murray. Hopper is believed to have concieved the concept of the compiler with the A-0 in 1952. She also developed the first commercial high-level language, which eventually evolved into COBOL. She worked on the Mark I computer with Howard Aiken and with BINAC in 1949. She is credited with having coined the term "debug", and the adage "it is always easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission" (with various wordings), which has been the guiding principle in sysadmin decisions ever since. See also the entries debug and bug. Hopper is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. In 1994, the US Navy named a new ship, the guided-missile destroyer USS Hopper, after her.
  • 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.
  • granite peak — the highest elevation in Montana, in the S part. 12,799 feet (3901 meters).
  • grape family — the plant family Vitaceae, characterized by woody climbing vines with tendrils, having alternate, simple or compound leaves, and bearing clusters of small flowers and berries, and including Boston ivy, grape, grape ivy, and Virginia creeper.
  • grape picker — someone who picks grapes
  • graph theory — the branch of mathematics dealing with linear graphs.
  • grapple shot — a grapnellike projectile fired from a gun and used as a hold for the end of a line in rescue operations or in kedging.
  • graspingness — The quality of being grasping.
  • grass sponge — a large, dark brown, commercial sponge, Spongia graminea, of Florida, the West Indies, and the Gulf of Mexico.
  • grasshoppers — Plural form of grasshopper.
  • gray panther — a member of an organized group of elderly people seeking to secure or protect their rights by collective action.
  • gray snapper — a snapper, Lutjanus griseus, of shallow waters off the coast of Florida, having a grayish-green body with a brown spot on each scale.
  • grease paint — an oily mixture of melted tallow or grease and a pigment, used by actors, clowns, etc., for making up their faces.
  • greasy spoon — a cheap and rather unsanitary restaurant.
  • great plague — the bubonic plague that occurred in London in 1665 and killed about 15 percent of the city's population.
  • great plains — a semiarid region E of the Rocky Mountains, in the U.S. and Canada.
  • great primer — an 18-point type of a size larger than Columbian, formerly used for Bibles.
  • great spirit — the chief deity in the religion of many North American Indian tribes.
  • great-nephew — a son of one's nephew or niece; grandnephew.
  • grey panther — a member of the generation of affluent older consumers, who regard themselves as young, active, and sociable
  • grimsel pass — an Alpine pass in S Switzerland. 7159 feet (2184 meters) high.
  • 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.
  • gutta-percha — the milky juice, nearly white when pure, of various Malaysian trees of the sapodilla family, especially Palaquium gutta.
  • h paul grice — H(erbert) Paul, 1913–88, English philosopher.
  • haemoprotein — Alternative spelling of hemoprotein.
  • hagiographer — one of the writers of the Hagiographa.
  • 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.
  • hall process — a process in which aluminum is refined by electrolytic reduction of alumina fused with cryolite.
  • hammer price — the price offered as the winning bid in a public auction
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