12-letter words containing e, p, i, g, r
- interspacing — Present participle of interspace.
- jeopardising — Present participle of jeopardise.
- jeopardizing — Present participle of jeopardize.
- jumping hare — springhare.
- keeping room — hall (def 11).
- kinetography — a camera for taking pictures for a kinetoscope.
- klipspringer — a small, agile African antelope, Oreotragus oreotragus, of mountainous regions from the Cape of Good Hope to Ethiopia.
- lamplighters — Plural form of lamplighter.
- leapfrogging — Present participle of leapfrog.
- ledger strip — a piece attached to the face of a beam at the bottom as a support for the ends of joists.
- lexicography — the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
- life peerage — the title and rank of a life peer
- ligniperdous — (of insects) wood-destroying
- line probing — A feature of some V.34 modems that will allow them to identify the capacity and quality of the phone line and adjust themselves to allow, for each individual connection, for maximum throughput using the highest possible data transmission rate.
- linear graph — graph (def 2b).
- linear-graph — a diagram representing a system of connections or interrelations among two or more things by a number of distinctive dots, lines, bars, etc.
- lithographed — Simple past tense and past participle of lithograph.
- lithographer — a person who works at lithography.
- magic carpet — flying rug in fantasy stories
- make-up girl — a woman or girl who applies cosmetics to a person, such as to a model or actor
- manspreading — the practice by a male passenger on public transport of sitting with his legs wide apart, so denying space to passengers beside him
- marlingspike — Alternative spelling of marlinspike.
- martempering — a quenching process used to harden austenitic steel.
- mastigophore — Any flagellate of the phylum Mastigophora.
- metaphrasing — Present participle of metaphrase.
- microgripper — (engineering) A microscopic device used to grasp and manipulate microscale objects safely.
- mimeographed — Simple past tense and past participle of mimeograph.
- morphologies — Plural form of morphology.
- multipronged — having or composed of several prongs: a multipronged electric plug.
- myringoscope — an instrument for examining the eardrum
- napier grass — a tall, leafy grass, Pennisetum purpureum, native to Africa, grown as a forage plant.
- nephrologist — A physician whose speciality is nephrology.
- new paradigm — a set of beliefs that replaces another set which is believed no longer to apply
- newspapering — Present participle of newspaper.
- night person — a person who prefers to stay up late or who functions best during the nighttime hours.
- night porter — A night porter is a person whose job is to be on duty at the main reception desk of a hotel throughout the night.
- night prayer — the last of the seven canonical hours; compline
- nonoperating — Not operating.
- oligophrenia — less than normal mental development.
- oligophrenic — less than normal mental development.
- oligospermia — (medicine) Low volume of semen.
- opera singer — a professional singer of opera
- optical grep — vgrep
- organoleptic — perceived by a sense organ.
- outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
- overcropping — Agriculture. to crop (land) to excess; exhaust the fertility of by continuous cropping.
- overplanning — the act or instance of planning excessively
- overplotting — the provision of an excessively elaborate plot
- overpowering — that overpowers; overwhelming: an overpowering conviction of the truth.
- overspending — the act or an instance of spending in excess of one's desires or what one can afford or is allocated