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12-letter words containing e, n, t, r, p

  • first person — the grammatical person used by a speaker in statements referring to himself or herself (first person singular) or to a group including himself or herself (first person plural)
  • flavoprotein — an enzyme, containing riboflavin and linked chemically with a protein, active in the oxidation of foods in animal cells.
  • fleet prison — (formerly) a London prison, esp used for holding debtors
  • flow pattern — The flow pattern is the way in which fluids move through a reactor.
  • foetoprotein — Alternative spelling of fetoprotein.
  • fort pickensAndrew, 1739–1817, American Revolutionary general.
  • fortepianist — the player of a fortepiano
  • foundry type — type cast in individual characters for setting by hand.
  • freeing port — an opening in the bottom of a bulwark, for rapid drainage of a weather deck in heavy seas; scupper.
  • french pleat — curtain, draperies
  • frontispiece — an illustrated leaf preceding the title page of a book.
  • gangster rap — a type of rap music whose lyrics feature violence, sexual exploits, and the like.
  • garden party — a party given out of doors in a garden or yard.
  • garnet paper — an abrasive paper coated with pulverized garnet.
  • 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.
  • gentleperson — a person of good family and position; gentleman or lady.
  • gerontophile — someone who is sexually attracted to old people
  • gerontophobe — a person who fears or hates old people or the idea of growing old
  • giant powder — dynamite composed of nitroglycerin and kieselguhr.
  • glucoprotein — glycoprotein.
  • glycoprotein — any of a group of complex proteins, as mucin, containing a carbohydrate combined with a simple protein.
  • grandparents — a parent of a parent.
  • granite peak — the highest elevation in Montana, in the S part. 12,799 feet (3901 meters).
  • gray panther — a member of an organized group of elderly people seeking to secure or protect their rights by collective action.
  • grease paint — an oily mixture of melted tallow or grease and a pigment, used by actors, clowns, etc., for making up their faces.
  • great plains — a semiarid region E of the Rocky Mountains, in the U.S. and Canada.
  • 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
  • ground plate — Electricity. a metal plate for making a ground connection to the earth.
  • group of ten — the ten nations who met in Paris in 1961 to arrange the special drawing rights of the IMF: Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, UK, US, and West Germany
  • guttersnipes — Plural form of guttersnipe.
  • haemoprotein — Alternative spelling of hemoprotein.
  • hand-printed — (of numbers, letters, or designs) printed, or put on a surface, by hand rather than by machine
  • heptahedrons — Plural form of heptahedron.
  • hernioplasty — an operation for the repair of a hernia.
  • herpetofauna — the reptiles and amphibians that inhabit a given area
  • heterophonic — the simultaneous performance of the same melodic line, with slight individual variations, by two or more performers.
  • heteropteran — A bug of the group Heteroptera.
  • hierophantic — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
  • high-protein — (of a food) rich in proteins
  • hippocentaur — Centaur.
  • housepainter — A professional painter of houses.
  • hydnocarpate — a salt or ester of hydnocarpic acid.
  • hymenopteran — hymenopterous.
  • hymenopteron — hymenopteran.
  • hyperfiction — nonlinear fiction created in electronic hypertext form and containing multiple plot developments, endings, etc., that can be evoked interactively.
  • hypergenetic — Biology. pertaining or according to genetics.
  • hyperinflate — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
  • hyperintense — existing or occurring in a high or extreme degree: intense heat.
  • hyperkinetic — Pathology. an abnormal amount of uncontrolled muscular action; spasm.
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