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

  • unrepealable — not able to be repealed, rescinded, or annulled
  • unrepeatable — to say or utter again (something already said): to repeat a word for emphasis.
  • unrepentance — the state of being unrepentant, impenitent, or unremorseful
  • unreportable — not able to be reported, relayed, or spoken of
  • unreproached — not reproached, criticized, or scolded
  • unreprovable — not able to be reproved, reproached, or criticized
  • unrepulsable — not able to be repulsed or driven back
  • unsaponified — to convert (a fat) into soap by treating with an alkali.
  • unspectacled — lacking spectacles
  • unsplittable — to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
  • unstipulated — to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of agreement (often followed by for).
  • unsupposable — not able to be supposed
  • unsyncopated — marked by syncopation: syncopated rhythm.
  • untrespassed — Law. an unlawful act causing injury to the person, property, or rights of another, committed with force or violence, actual or implied. a wrongful entry upon the lands of another. the action to recover damages for such an injury.
  • up-and-comer — likely to succeed; bright and industrious: an up-and-coming young executive.
  • up-and-under — a high kick forwards followed by a charge to the place where the ball lands
  • upper canada — a former British province in Canada 1791–1840: now the S part of Ontario province.
  • valve spring — a helical spring used to hold closed a valve in the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine
  • van der post — Sir Laurens (Jan). 1906–96, South African writer and traveller. His works include the travel books Venture to the Interior (1952), The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958), and Testament to the Bushmen (1984) and the novels The Hunter and the Whale (1967) and The Admiral's Baby (1996)
  • vanity plate — a vehicle license plate bearing a combination of letters or numbers requested by the licensee, as a name or occupation.
  • vanity press — a printing house that specializes in publishing books for which the authors pay all or most of the costs.
  • vaporescence — production or formation of vapor.
  • vaporishness — the quality or state of being vaporish
  • velocipedean — someone who rides a velocipede
  • velvet plant — a composite plant, Gynura aurantiaca, native to the Old World tropics, having leaves and stems covered with dense, velvety, purple hairs and often cultivated as a houseplant. Compare purple passion.
  • veneer patch — a patch made in one of the veneers of a sheet of plywood before layup.
  • vespertilian — of, relating to, or resembling a bat
  • vice-captain — a person who deputizes for a captain and serves in his or her place during his or her absence or indisposition
  • vituperation — verbal abuse or castigation; violent denunciation or condemnation.
  • voting paper — a ballot.
  • walking pace — the speed at which someone walks
  • walled plain — a circular or almost circular area on the moon, sometimes with a floor that is depressed, usually partially enclosed by walls that rise to varying heights and that are usually lower than those of a crater.
  • wallpapering — Present participle of wallpaper.
  • warp-knitted — designating a fabric made by warp knitting.
  • watering pot — a container for water, typically of metal or plastic and having a spout with a perforated nozzle, for watering or sprinkling plants, flowers, etc.
  • watermanship — the skill, duties, business, etc., of a waterman.
  • wave-and-pay — relating to a payment system that uses RFID technology to allow a customer to pay for goods by passing a card in front of a sensor
  • weaponeering — the act of fitting out with weapons
  • web scraping — the extraction and copying of data from a website into a structured format using a computer program: Hackers pose a threat with techniques like web scraping. Our search engine uses web scraping to index sites.
  • well-planned — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
  • 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)
  • white plains — a city in SE New York, near New York City: battle 1776.
  • whooper swan — a common, Old World swan, Cygnus cygnus, distinguished by a yellow patch at the base of its bill, noted for its whooping cry.
  • wranglership — (at Cambridge University) the position of a wrangler
  • xanthopterin — a yellow pigment, C6H5N5O2, found in some butterfly or moth wings or in the urine of mammals
  • yachtsperson — A yachtsman or yachtswoman.
  • zephyranthes — any of various bulbous plants belonging to the genus Zephyranthes, of the amaryllis family, as Z. grandiflora, having showy rose or pink flowers.
  • zip fastener — a zipper.
  • zone therapy — a type of massage which works on the theory that specific parts of the foot or palm of the hand are associated with different parts of the body, and that massaging the feet or hands will give the patient relief from disorders in the related part of the body
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