12-letter words containing e, p, n, t
- despoliation — the act of despoiling; plunder or pillage
- despondently — feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection, discouragement, or gloom: despondent about failing health.
- dessertspoon — A dessertspoon is a spoon which is midway between the size of a teaspoon and a tablespoon. You use it to eat desserts.
- detectaphone — a device for listening secretly to others' telephone conversations
- detectophone — a secret listening device, the predecessor of the modern 'bug'
- deuteranopia — a form of colour blindness in which there is a tendency to confuse blues and greens, and greens and reds, and in which sensitivity to green is reduced
- developement — Obsolete spelling of development.
- developments — Plural form of development.
- dictyopteran — any insect of the order Dictyoptera, which comprises the cockroaches and mantises
- die stamping — the production of words or decoration on a surface by using a steel die so that the printed images stand in relief
- dinner party — social gathering over evening meal
- dinner plate — a plate for holding an individual serving of the main course of a meal.
- diphthongize — to change into or pronounce as a diphthong.
- dipropellant — bipropellant.
- direct input — a device, such as a keyboard, used to insert data directly into a computerized system
- disappointed — depressed or discouraged by the failure of one's hopes or expectations: a disappointed suitor.
- disceptation — (archaic) Controversy; disputation; discussion.
- disoperation — a relationship between two organisms in a community that is harmful to both
- dispensation — an act or instance of dispensing; distribution.
- dispensative — Granting dispensation.
- dispensatory — a book in which the composition, preparation, and uses of medicinal substances are described; a nonofficial pharmacopoeia.
- dispensement — Dispensation (handing out or distribution).
- dispersement — Misspelling of disbursement.
- dispiritment — the state of being dispirited
- displacement — the act of displacing.
- disportments — to divert or amuse (oneself).
- dissapointed — Misspelling of disappointed.
- dissepiments — Plural form of dissepiment.
- doorstepping — talking to someone at the door of their home, for political canvassing or to gather information
- down payment — an initial amount paid at the time of purchase, in installment buying, time sales, etc.
- draftsperson — a person employed in making mechanical drawings, especially in an architectural or engineering firm.
- drapetomania — (dated) an overwhelming urge to run away (from home, a bad situation, responsibility, etc.).
- dripping wet — If you are dripping wet, you are so wet that water is dripping from you.
- drum printer — a line printer that uses a rotating drum with raised characters, against which the paper is pressed.
- dwarf planet — a spherical celestial body revolving about the sun, similar to a planet but not large enough to gravitationally clear its orbital region of most or all other celestial bodies. Pluto is a dwarf planet.
- earsplitting — ear-piercing: an earsplitting explosion.
- eastern cape — a province of S South Africa; formed in 1994 from the E part of the former Cape Province: service industries, agriculture, and mining. Capital: Bhisho (formerly Bisho). Pop: 6 562 053 (2011 est). Area: 169 600 sq km (65 483 sq miles)
- eating apple — apple suitable for eating raw
- eden project — an environmental complex containing the world's largest greenhouse, built in a disused clay pit near St Austell, Cornwall, to study plant populations in a variety of environments
- egyptian mau — a breed of medium-sized cat with a spotted coat of medium length
- electrophone — (music) any instrument designed to create sounds using electrical currents.
- elephant gun — hunting rifle
- elephantbird — Alternative form of elephant bird.
- elephantitis — (US) misconstruction of elephantiasis.
- emancipating — Present participle of emancipate.
- emancipation — The fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberation.
- emancipators — Plural form of emancipator.
- emancipatory — Of or pertaining to emancipation or to an emancipator.
- emancipatrix — A woman, girl, or any other entity treated as female who emancipates; a female emancipator.
- empassionate — intensely affected