0%

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

  • dispensatory — a book in which the composition, preparation, and uses of medicinal substances are described; a nonofficial pharmacopoeia.
  • dispersement — Misspelling of disbursement.
  • dispiritment — the state of being dispirited
  • disportments — to divert or amuse (oneself).
  • domino paper — a marbleized or figured decorative paper, used for wallpaper, end papers, etc., printed from wood blocks and colored by hand.
  • doorstepping — talking to someone at the door of their home, for political canvassing or to gather information
  • dopaminergic — activated by or sensitive to dopamine.
  • doppelganger — a ghostly double or counterpart of a living person.
  • doppleganger — Misspelling of doppelganger.
  • draftsperson — a person employed in making mechanical drawings, especially in an architectural or engineering firm.
  • drapetomania — (dated) an overwhelming urge to run away (from home, a bad situation, responsibility, etc.).
  • dripping wet — If you are dripping wet, you are so wet that water is dripping from you.
  • drum printer — a line printer that uses a rotating drum with raised characters, against which the paper is pressed.
  • dwarf planet — a spherical celestial body revolving about the sun, similar to a planet but not large enough to gravitationally clear its orbital region of most or all other celestial bodies. Pluto is a dwarf planet.
  • ear piercing — hole in ear for jewellery
  • ear-piercing — extremely harsh and irritating to the ear: ear-piercing noise.
  • earsplitting — ear-piercing: an earsplitting explosion.
  • eastern cape — a province of S South Africa; formed in 1994 from the E part of the former Cape Province: service industries, agriculture, and mining. Capital: Bhisho (formerly Bisho). Pop: 6 562 053 (2011 est). Area: 169 600 sq km (65 483 sq miles)
  • eden prairie — a town in SE Minnesota.
  • eden project — an environmental complex containing the world's largest greenhouse, built in a disused clay pit near St Austell, Cornwall, to study plant populations in a variety of environments
  • ekman spiral — a complex interaction on the surface of the sea between wind, rotation of the earth, and friction forces, discovered by Vagn Walfrid Ekman
  • electrophone — (music) any instrument designed to create sounds using electrical currents.
  • elephantbird — Alternative form of elephant bird.
  • emancipators — Plural form of emancipator.
  • emancipatory — Of or pertaining to emancipation or to an emancipator.
  • emancipatrix — A woman, girl, or any other entity treated as female who emancipates; a female emancipator.
  • empressement — Animated eagerness or friendliness; effusion.
  • empty-nester — a married person whose children have grown up and left home
  • enantiomorph — Each of two crystalline or other geometric forms that are mirror images of each other.
  • enantiotropy — the possibility for stable polymorphs to exist in different states on either side of a transition-point temperature
  • encipherment — The act or process of enciphering; encryption.
  • endomorphism — changes in a cooling body of igneous rock brought about by assimilation of fragments of, or chemical reaction with, the surrounding country rock
  • endoparasite — A parasite, such as a tapeworm, that lives inside its host.
  • endoperoxide — one of the substances formed in the biosynthesis of prostaglandins
  • enteropneust — a worm-like marine invertebrate
  • enteroptosis — Visceroptosis of the intestines.
  • enterprising — Having or showing initiative and resourcefulness.
  • entoplastral — relating to an entoplastron
  • entoplastron — the median plate of a turtle's plastron
  • entrepreneur — A person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so.
  • entropically — By means of or in relation to entropy.
  • entry coupon — a coupon which you have to fill in with personal details and answers to be eligible to win a prize
  • entry permit — customs
  • epanorthosis — (rhetoric) A rhetorical device or element in which a speaker or writer retracts a word that has been spoken and substitutes a stronger or more suitable word; often done for emphasis or sarcasm.
  • ephemeridian — relating to ephemera
  • epicureanism — An ancient school of philosophy founded in Athens by Epicurus. The school rejected determinism and advocated hedonism (pleasure as the highest good), but of a restrained kind: mental pleasure was regarded more highly than physical, and the ultimate pleasure was held to be freedom from anxiety and mental pain, esp. that arising from needless fear of death and of the gods.
  • epistolarian — A writer of epistles.
  • epoxypropane — (organic compound) propylene oxide.
  • equiparation — the act of regarding as the same; the act of comparing
  • eriskay pony — a breed of medium-sized pony, typically grey, with a dense waterproof coat. The Eriskay is the only surviving variety of the native ponies of the Western Isles of Scotland
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?