12-letter words containing p, a, c, t
- unimportance — a lack of importance
- unit's place — unit (def 8).
- unpoetically — in an unpoetic manner
- unpredicated — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
- unprelatical — not befitting a prelate
- unpunctuated — (of written text) lacking punctuation
- unrepentance — the state of being unrepentant, impenitent, or unremorseful
- unscriptural — not scriptural
- unspectacled — lacking spectacles
- unsyncopated — marked by syncopation: syncopated rhythm.
- vacation pay — salary paid during holidays
- vector space — an additive group in which addition is commutative and with which is associated a field of scalars, as the field of real numbers, such that the product of a scalar and an element of the group or a vector is defined, the product of two scalars times a vector is associative, one times a vector is the vector, and two distributive laws hold.
- velociraptor — a small carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Velociraptor , from the late Cretaceous period, capable of leaping, and growing to a length of about 6 feet (2 meters), having feathers, a flat snout, short forelimbs with large handlike talons, and a large sickle-shaped claw on each foot.
- veneer patch — a patch made in one of the veneers of a sheet of plywood before layup.
- vice-captain — a person who deputizes for a captain and serves in his or her place during his or her absence or indisposition
- voltaic pile — an early battery cell, consisting of several metal disks, each made of one of two dissimilar metals, arranged in an alternating series, and separated by pads moistened with an electrolyte.
- watch pocket — a small pocket in a garment, as in a vest or trousers, for holding a pocket watch, change, etc. Compare fob1 (def 1).
- water pocket — a cavity at the foot of a cliff formed by the falling action of an intermittent stream.
- western cape — a province of W South Africa, created in 1994 from the SW part of Cape Province: agriculture (esp fruit), wine making, fishing, various industries in Cape Town. Capital: Cape Town. Pop: 5 822 734 (2011 est). Area: 129 370 sq km (49 950 sq miles)
- wild apricot — apricot (def 4).
- wrap account — a personally managed investment account where charges are levied on the basis of the account's total assets.
- yachting cap — a cap with a round flat top and a visor
- yachtspeople — Plural form of yachtsperson.
- yachtsperson — A yachtsman or yachtswoman.
- zinc-plating — the process of covering something with a layer or coating of zinc