12-letter words containing e, l, i, p
- unprivileged — belonging to a class that enjoys special privileges; favored: the privileged few.
- unproclaimed — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
- unprofitable — being without profit; not showing or turning a profit: a series of unprofitable ventures.
- unpublicized — not publicized, promoted, or made widely known
- unpunishable — not able to be punished
- unreciprocal — given or felt by each toward the other; mutual: reciprocal respect.
- unrepairable — that cannot be repaired: Some old clocks are unrepairable.
- unrepiningly — in an unrepining manner
- unsimplified — to make less complex or complicated; make plainer or easier: to simplify a problem.
- 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).
- upper circle — the seats in a theatre that are situated above the dress circle
- utility pole — one of a series of large, upright poles used to support telephone wires, electric cables, or the like.
- 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.
- velcro strip — a strip or roll of Velcro, able to be cut to the required length
- 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.
- well-pointed — having a point or points: a pointed arch.
- wet puddling — puddling on a hearth rich in iron oxide so that carbon monoxide is generated, giving the iron the appearance of boiling.
- whelping ice — the ice on which a seal lies while giving birth in the spring.
- whimperingly — In a whimpering way.
- whippletrees — Plural form of whippletree.
- whisperingly — In a whispering manner; quietly.
- whistle-stop — to campaign for political office by traveling around the country, originally by train, stopping at small communities to address voters.
- white lupine — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Lupinus, of the legume family, as L. albus (white lupine) of Europe, bearing edible seeds, or L. perennis, of the eastern U.S., having tall, dense clusters of blue, pink, or white flowers.
- 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
- yellow peril — (in historical contexts) the alleged danger that predominantly white Western civilizations and populations could be overwhelmed by Asian peoples.
- zebulon pike — James Albert, 1913–69, U.S. Protestant Episcopal clergyman, lawyer, and author.