12-letter words containing n, e, p, t
- gentlepeople — a person of good family and position; gentleman or lady.
- gentleperson — a person of good family and position; gentleman or lady.
- geopotential — the difference between the potential energy of a mass at a given altitude and the potential energy of an identical mass at sea level, equivalent to the energy required to move the mass from sea level to the given altitude.
- gerontophile — someone who is sexually attracted to old people
- gerontophobe — a person who fears or hates old people or the idea of growing old
- get anyplace — to have any success
- giant planet — any of the planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, characterized by large mass, low density, and an extensive atmosphere
- 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.
- god's plenty — an abundant or overabundant quantity.
- 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-painted — painted by a person rather than a machine
- hand-printed — (of numbers, letters, or designs) printed, or put on a surface, by hand rather than by machine
- hanging step — a step projecting from a wall with no real or apparent support at its outer end.
- happenstance — a chance happening or event.
- have pity on — to have sympathy or show mercy for
- hellespontus — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars.
- help on with — If you help someone on with an item of clothing, you help them put it on.
- hemiplankton — plankton that spend part of their life cycle in a vegetative state on the sea bottom, riverbed, etc. (opposed to holoplankton).
- hepatization — the transformation of tissue into a liver-like substance, esp of the lungs in pneumonia
- hepatogenous — originating in the liver
- hepatotoxins — Plural form of hepatotoxin.
- 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 concept — a simple and often striking idea or premise, as of a story or film, that lends itself to easy promotion and marketing.
- high-protein — (of a food) rich in proteins
- hippocentaur — Centaur.
- holopneustic — having all the spiracles open, as the tracheal systems of most insects.
- home posting — an appointment to a position within one's own country
- housepainter — A professional painter of houses.
- humble plant — sensitive plant (def 1).
- hydnocarpate — a salt or ester of hydnocarpic acid.
- hymenoplasty — (medicine) Plastic surgery affecting a woman's hymen, usually involving reconstruction to the unbroken condition ordinarily characteristic of virginity.
- hymenopteran — hymenopterous.
- hymenopteron — hymenopteran.