12-letter words containing p, e, n, c
- frontispiece — an illustrated leaf preceding the title page of a book.
- galvanoscope — an instrument for detecting the existence of an electric current and determining its direction.
- get anyplace — to have any success
- glockenspiel — a musical instrument composed of a set of graduated steel bars mounted in a frame and struck with hammers, used especially in bands.
- glucoprotein — glycoprotein.
- glycoprotein — any of a group of complex proteins, as mucin, containing a carbohydrate combined with a simple protein.
- golden perch — a freshwater food fish, Plectroplites ambiguus, that inhabits inland waters of Australia.
- handicapable — (politically correct) disabled or handicapped.
- handicappeds — Plural form of handicapped.
- handicappers — Plural form of handicapper.
- happenchance — happenstance.
- happenstance — a chance happening or event.
- have company — If you have company, you have a visitor or friend with you.
- hebephreniac — a person suffering from hebephrenia
- heckelphones — Plural form of heckelphone.
- help screens — computer instructions displayed on a visual display unit
- heterophonic — the simultaneous performance of the same melodic line, with slight individual variations, by two or more performers.
- hickory pine — bristlecone pine.
- hiding place — location where sb is concealed
- hierophantic — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
- high concept — a simple and often striking idea or premise, as of a story or film, that lends itself to easy promotion and marketing.
- hippocentaur — Centaur.
- hippocrepian — (of an aquatic organism or plant) shaped like a horseshoe
- hire company — a company that hires things out to people
- holocephalan — (zoology) Any cartilaginous fish of the subclass Holocephali; the chimeras.
- holopneustic — having all the spiracles open, as the tracheal systems of most insects.
- honeycreeper — any of several small, usually brightly colored birds, related to the tanagers and wood warblers, of tropical and semitropical America.
- hydnocarpate — a salt or ester of hydnocarpic acid.
- hyperdynamic — (physiology) Describing an increase in both blood pressure and pulse pressure.
- hyperendemic — manifesting a high and persistent occurrence
- hyperfiction — nonlinear fiction created in electronic hypertext form and containing multiple plot developments, endings, etc., that can be evoked interactively.
- hypergenetic — Biology. pertaining or according to genetics.
- hyperkinetic — Pathology. an abnormal amount of uncontrolled muscular action; spasm.
- hypersomniac — a tendency to sleep excessively.
- iceland spar — a transparent variety of calcite that is double-refracting and is used as a polarizer.
- ichnospecies — (paleontology) Any species known only from trace fossils, such as footprints, coprolites or nests.
- impeachments — Plural form of impeachment.
- imperception — lack of perception.
- impercipient — lacking perception; imperceptive.
- imperfection — an imperfect detail; flaw: a law full of imperfections.
- impermanence — not permanent or enduring; transitory.
- impermanency — Alternative form of impermanence.
- impertinence — unmannerly intrusion or presumption; insolence.
- impertinency — impertinence.
- implicitness — The state or quality of being implicit.
- importancies — Plural form of importancy.
- imprecations — Plural form of imprecation.
- improvidence — not provident; lacking foresight; incautious; unwary.
- in duplicate — in two copies, times two
- in one piece — If someone or something is still in one piece after a dangerous journey or experience, they are safe and not damaged or hurt.