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12-letter words containing n, o, r, e, p, a

  • carbon paper — Carbon paper is thin paper with a dark substance on one side. You use it to make copies of letters, bills, and other papers.
  • carpetmonger — a person who frequently visits women's boudoirs
  • carpool lane — a lane of a major road or motorway that is reserved for vehicles with a minimum number of passengers, designed to encourage carpooling
  • cattleperson — Someone who works with, or rears cattle.
  • cefoperazone — A cephalosporin antibiotic.
  • ceratopsians — Plural form of ceratopsian.
  • chairpersons — Plural form of chairperson.
  • channel port — one of the English or French ports on the English Channel
  • chiropterans — Plural form of chiropteran.
  • clomipramine — A tricyclic, heterocyclic drug used to treat depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
  • co-parenting — a divorced or separated parent who shares equally with the other parent in the custody and care of a child.
  • coat protein — any protein that is a constituent of the capsid of a virus.
  • coleopterans — Plural form of coleopteran.
  • compartments — Plural form of compartment.
  • compaternity — the relationship between the godparents of a child or between the godparents and the child's parents.
  • compensatory — Compensatory payments involve money paid as compensation.
  • concorporate — united into a single body
  • conspiracies — Plural form of conspiracy.
  • contemplator — to look at or view with continued attention; observe or study thoughtfully: to contemplate the stars.
  • contemporary — Contemporary things are modern and relate to the present time.
  • cooperations — an act or instance of working or acting together for a common purpose or benefit; joint action.
  • copperfasten — (transitive, historical) To protect the timbers [of a ship] with plates of copper secured with copper nails or bolts.
  • copy-reading — to work on (copy) as a copyreader.
  • counterpanes — Plural form of counterpane.
  • counterparts — a person or thing closely resembling another, especially in function: Our president is the counterpart of your prime minister.
  • counterparty — a person who is a party to a contract
  • counterplead — to plead the opposite of
  • counterpleas — Plural form of counterplea.
  • counterscarp — the outer side of the ditch of a fort
  • counterstamp — a stamp added to a stamped paper or document as a qualifying mark.
  • craftsperson — an artisan
  • cryptomnesia — the reappearance of a suppressed or forgotten memory which is mistaken for a new experience
  • curtain pole — a pole from which a curtain is hung in front of a window, door, etc
  • cyclopropane — a colourless flammable gaseous hydrocarbon, used in medicine as an anaesthetic; trimethylene. It is a cycloalkane with molecules containing rings of three carbon atoms. Formula: C3H6; boiling pt: –34°C
  • d'anjou pear — Anjou pear
  • danger point — the point at which something ceases to be safe
  • daphnephoria — an ancient Greek festival in honor of Apollo.
  • deaspiration — the act of deaspirating
  • demonography — a treatise on demons.
  • deportations — Plural form of deportation.
  • depreciation — the reduction in value of a fixed asset due to use, obsolescence, etc
  • depredations — the act of preying upon or plundering; robbery; ravage.
  • deprivations — Plural form of deprivation.
  • deprotonated — Simple past tense and past participle of deprotonate.
  • 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
  • dictyopteran — any insect of the order Dictyoptera, which comprises the cockroaches and mantises
  • dinosaur pen — A traditional mainframe computer room complete with raised flooring, special power, its own ultra-heavy-duty air conditioning, and a side order of Halon fire extinguishers. See boa.
  • dipropellant — bipropellant.
  • disoperation — a relationship between two organisms in a community that is harmful to both
  • dispensatory — a book in which the composition, preparation, and uses of medicinal substances are described; a nonofficial pharmacopoeia.
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