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12-letter words containing o, r, p, i, n

  • fort pickensAndrew, 1739–1817, American Revolutionary general.
  • fortepianist — the player of a fortepiano
  • francophilia — Alternative capitalization of Francophilia.
  • francophobia — the phenomenon of hating French speakers, culture, or people
  • freeing port — an opening in the bottom of a bulwark, for rapid drainage of a weather deck in heavy seas; scupper.
  • fringe group — a group that is on the periphery of a larger organization because its views are more extreme than the majority
  • frontispiece — an illustrated leaf preceding the title page of a book.
  • gaboon viper — a large, venomous snake, Bitis gabonica, of tropical African forests, having large retractable fangs and geometrically patterned scales of yellow, brown, and sometimes purple.
  • garrison cap — overseas cap.
  • georgia pine — longleaf pine.
  • germanophile — a person who is friendly toward or admires or studies Germany or German culture.
  • gerontophile — someone who is sexually attracted to old people
  • giant powder — dynamite composed of nitroglycerin and kieselguhr.
  • ginger group — the most active group within an organization, as a political party.
  • glucoprotein — glycoprotein.
  • glycoprotein — any of a group of complex proteins, as mucin, containing a carbohydrate combined with a simple protein.
  • gonadotropic — pertaining to substances formed in the anterior pituitary gland that affect the activity of the ovary or testis.
  • gonadotropin — a gonadotropic substance.
  • gossipmonger — a person especially fond of or addicted to gossiping.
  • governorship — the duties, term in office, etc., of a governor.
  • gramophonist — a person who uses a gramophone
  • graphophonic — a phonograph for recording and reproducing sounds on wax records.
  • haemoprotein — Alternative spelling of hemoprotein.
  • hernioplasty — an operation for the repair of a hernia.
  • heterophonic — the simultaneous performance of the same melodic line, with slight individual variations, by two or more performers.
  • hickory pine — bristlecone pine.
  • hierophanies — Plural form of hierophany.
  • hierophantic — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
  • high-protein — (of a food) rich in proteins
  • hippocentaur — Centaur.
  • hippocrepian — (of an aquatic organism or plant) shaped like a horseshoe
  • hippodroming — (baseball) present participle of hippodrome; Staging games to suit gamblers, especially baseball.
  • hire company — a company that hires things out to people
  • horned viper — a highly venomous viper, Cerastes cerastes, of northern Africa and extreme southwestern Asia, having a process resembling a horn just above each eye.
  • horsemanship — the art, ability, skill, or manner of a horseman.
  • housepainter — A professional painter of houses.
  • hyannis port — a town in SE Massachusetts, on Nantucket Sound: summer resort.
  • hydroplaning — a seaplane.
  • hydrosalpinx — A distally blocked Fallopian tube filled with serous or clear fluid.
  • hyperfiction — nonlinear fiction created in electronic hypertext form and containing multiple plot developments, endings, etc., that can be evoked interactively.
  • hyperflexion — Anatomy. the act of bending a limb. the position that a limb assumes when it is bent.
  • hypersomniac — a tendency to sleep excessively.
  • hypertension — Pathology. elevation of the blood pressure, especially the diastolic pressure. an arterial disease characterized by this condition.
  • hypochondria — Also, hypochondriasis [hahy-poh-kuh n-drahy-uh-sis] /ˌhaɪ poʊ kənˈdraɪ ə sɪs/ (Show IPA). Psychiatry. an excessive preoccupation with one's health, usually focusing on some particular symptom, as cardiac or gastric problems.
  • hyponatremia — (medicine) An abnormally low concentration of sodium (or salt) in blood plasma.
  • hypophrygian — (in medieval church music) of or relating to the fourth of the eight scales
  • iconographic — of or relating to iconography.
  • il penseroso — a poem (1632) by John Milton.
  • impardonable — (obsolete) unpardonable.
  • imperception — lack of perception.
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