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12-letter words containing p, a, l, e

  • forepleasure — the aggregate of pleasurable sensations that lead to a heightened physical or emotional response, as of those aroused in sexual intercourse that lead to an orgasm.
  • foretopsails — Plural form of foretopsail.
  • french pleat — curtain, draperies
  • funeral plan — A funeral plan is a basic life insurance policy that provides money to pay for the policyholder's funeral expenses when they die.
  • funeral pyre — bonfire for cremation
  • galactophore — a galactophorous duct.
  • galactoscope — a lactoscope.
  • galley proof — a proof, originally one set from type in a galley, taken before the material has been made up into pages and usually printed as a single column of type with wide margins for marking corrections.
  • gallinippers — Plural form of gallinipper.
  • galvanoscope — an instrument for detecting the existence of an electric current and determining its direction.
  • gamopetalous — having the petals united.
  • gamosepalous — having the sepals united.
  • gapped scale — a scale, such as a pentatonic scale, containing fewer than seven notes
  • garlic press — kitchen tool for crushing garlic
  • gas pipeline — a system of transmission for gaseous material, esp natural gas
  • gelande jump — jump made in downhill skiing
  • general shop — a shop that sells various types of goods
  • generalships — Plural form of generalship.
  • geographical — of or relating to geography.
  • geopolitical — the study or the application of the influence of political and economic geography on the politics, national power, foreign policy, etc., of a state.
  • 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.
  • germanophile — a person who is friendly toward or admires or studies Germany or German culture.
  • 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
  • glacier peak — a volcanic mountain in NW central Washington, in the Cascade range. 10,541 feet (3213 meters).
  • glacis plate — the frontal plate armour on a tank
  • gold therapy — administration of gold salts as a treatment for disease, especially rheumatoid arthritis.
  • grape family — the plant family Vitaceae, characterized by woody climbing vines with tendrils, having alternate, simple or compound leaves, and bearing clusters of small flowers and berries, and including Boston ivy, grape, grape ivy, and Virginia creeper.
  • grapple shot — a grapnellike projectile fired from a gun and used as a hold for the end of a line in rescue operations or in kedging.
  • great plague — the bubonic plague that occurred in London in 1665 and killed about 15 percent of the city's population.
  • great plains — a semiarid region E of the Rocky Mountains, in the U.S. and Canada.
  • grimsel pass — an Alpine pass in S Switzerland. 7159 feet (2184 meters) high.
  • ground plane — (in perspective drawing) the theoretical horizontal plane receding from the picture plane to the horizon, beginning at the level of the base line.
  • ground plate — Electricity. a metal plate for making a ground connection to the earth.
  • h paul grice — H(erbert) Paul, 1913–88, English philosopher.
  • haemophiliac — A person with haemophilia.
  • hall process — a process in which aluminum is refined by electrolytic reduction of alumina fused with cryolite.
  • halogen lamp — a gas-filled, high-intensity incandescent lamp having a tungsten filament and containing a small amount of a halogen, such as iodine, that vaporizes on heating and redeposits any evaporated tungsten particles back onto the filament: used especially in motion-picture projectors and automobile headlights.
  • handicapable — (politically correct) disabled or handicapped.
  • happy couple — two people in a happy romantic relationship, especially two people who have just married
  • hautes-alpes — a department in SE France. 2179 sq. mi. (5645 sq. km). Capital: Gap.
  • health stamp — a postage stamp with a surcharge that is used to support a health camp
  • helicographs — Plural form of helicograph.
  • heliographed — Simple past tense and past participle of heliograph.
  • heliographer — (obsolete) Photographer.
  • heliographic — a device for signaling by means of a movable mirror that reflects beams of light, especially sunlight, to a distance.
  • heliotherapy — treatment of disease by means of sunlight.
  • hello packet — (networking, communications)   An OSPF packet sent periodically on each network interface, real or virtual, to discover and test connections to neighbours. Hello packets are multicast on physical networks capable of multicasting or broadcasting to enable dynamic router discovery. They include the parameters that routers connected to a common network must agree on. Hello packets increase network resilience by, e.g., allowing a router to establish a secondary connection when a primary connection fails.
  • helmsmanship — the skill or function of a helmsman
  • helping hand — aid; assistance: to give the destitute a helping hand.
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