12-letter words containing e, p, i, g, n, t
- precognizant — having prior cognizance or knowledge of a given thing
- predesignate — to designate beforehand.
- pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
- premalignant — occurring before a state of malignancy
- premarketing — before the development of a market
- premigration — occurring before migration
- prenegotiate — to discuss before a formal negotiation
- pretendingly — falsely
- primogenital — relating to primogeniture
- primogenitor — a first parent or earliest ancestor: Adam and Eve are the primogenitors of the human race.
- privateering — an armed ship that is privately owned and manned, commissioned by a government to fight or harass enemy ships.
- profiteering — a person who seeks or exacts exorbitant profits, especially through the sale of scarce or rationed goods.
- progenitress — a female progenitor (parent or ancestor)
- protectingly — in a protective manner
- puddingstone — any conglomerate rock having dark-colored, rounded pebbles that are embedded in a light-colored, fine-grained matrix
- puppeteering — a person who manipulates puppets, as in a puppet show.
- pyrogenicity — the characteristic of causing fever
- pyromagnetic — (formerly) thermomagnetic (def 1).
- recuperating — to recover from sickness or exhaustion; regain health or strength.
- repaginating — to indicate the sequence of pages in (a book, manuscript, etc.) by placing numbers or other characters on each leaf; to number the pages of.
- repagination — Bibliography. the number of pages or leaves of a book, manuscript, etc., identified in bibliographical description or cataloging.
- representing — to serve to express, designate, stand for, or denote, as a word, symbol, or the like does; symbolize: In this painting the cat represents evil and the bird, good.
- scapegoating — the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself.
- seating plan — layout of seats at a venue or on transport
- self-pitying — Someone who is self-pitying is full of self-pity.
- self-tapping — (of a screw) cutting its own thread when screwed into a plain hole in a metal sheet
- seringapatam — a town in S Karnataka, in S India, former capital of Mysore state: taken by the British 1799.
- sidestepping — the act of ascending or descending by facing sideways and lifting each ski alternately
- single-party — of or relating to a form of government in which only a single political party constitutes the government
- speed dating — an organized social event in which participants have one-on-one conversations typically limited to less than ten minutes, for the purpose of meeting people they would like to date.
- speedboating — the act, practice, or sport of traveling in a speedboat.
- speedskating — a form of ice skating in which contestants race against each other or the clock over various distances
- speedwriting — a system of shorthand that is based on the sound of words and utilizes letters of the alphabet rather than symbols.
- spot welding — fusing metal
- spring vetch — any of several mostly climbing plants belonging to the genus Vicia, of the legume family, having pinnate leaves ending in tendrils and bearing pealike flowers, especially V. sativa (spring vetch) cultivated for forage and soil improvement.
- spring water — water from natural underground source
- sputteringly — in a sputtering manner
- stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
- stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
- stereotyping — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
- stool pigeon — a pigeon used as a decoy.
- stupefyingly — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
- suet pudding — a pudding made of chopped beef suet and flour, boiled or steamed in a cloth, often with other ingredients, as raisins, spices, etc.
- superheating — Superheating of steam is raising its temperature to well above boiling point.
- tape editing — the process of putting the various segments of a master video or audio tape into a predetermined sequence: usually done electronically.
- teleshopping — electronic shopping via videotex or other interactive information service.
- the hoppings — an annual fair in Newcastle
- time-keeping — a person or thing that keeps time.
- top dressing — tennis court
- tracing tape — (on a building site) one of several lines stretched between batter boards to outline the foundations.