12-letter words containing p, e, n, y
- funny papers — funny1 (def 7b).
- garden party — a party given out of doors in a garden or yard.
- genappe yarn — a worsted yarn that has been genapped and made smooth and lustrous.
- gene therapy — the application of genetic engineering to the transplantation of genes into human cells in order to cure a disease caused by a genetic defect, as a missing enzyme.
- get anyplace — to have any success
- glycoprotein — any of a group of complex proteins, as mucin, containing a carbohydrate combined with a simple protein.
- god's plenty — an abundant or overabundant quantity.
- golden syrup — treacle (def 2b).
- gray panther — a member of an organized group of elderly people seeking to secure or protect their rights by collective action.
- gray snapper — a snapper, Lutjanus griseus, of shallow waters off the coast of Florida, having a grayish-green body with a brown spot on each scale.
- greasy spoon — a cheap and rather unsanitary restaurant.
- grey panther — a member of the generation of affluent older consumers, who regard themselves as young, active, and sociable
- handypersons — Plural form of handyperson.
- have company — If you have company, you have a visitor or friend with you.
- have pity on — to have sympathy or show mercy for
- hernioplasty — an operation for the repair of a hernia.
- hickory pine — bristlecone pine.
- hire company — a company that hires things out to people
- honeycreeper — any of several small, usually brightly colored birds, related to the tanagers and wood warblers, of tropical and semitropical America.
- horned poppy — any of several Eurasian papaveraceous plants of the genera Glaucium and Roemeria, having large brightly coloured flowers and long curved seed capsules
- hydnocarpate — a salt or ester of hydnocarpic acid.
- hymenoplasty — (medicine) Plastic surgery affecting a woman's hymen, usually involving reconstruction to the unbroken condition ordinarily characteristic of virginity.
- hymenopteran — hymenopterous.
- hymenopteron — hymenopteran.
- hyper-energy — the capacity for vigorous activity; available power: I eat chocolate to get quick energy.
- 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.
- hyperflexion — Anatomy. the act of bending a limb. the position that a limb assumes when it is bent.
- hypergenesis — an origin, creation, or beginning.
- hypergenetic — Biology. pertaining or according to genetics.
- hyperinflate — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
- hyperintense — existing or occurring in a high or extreme degree: intense heat.
- hyperkinesia — Pathology. an abnormal amount of uncontrolled muscular action; spasm.
- hyperkinesis — Pathology. an abnormal amount of uncontrolled muscular action; spasm.
- hyperkinetic — Pathology. an abnormal amount of uncontrolled muscular action; spasm.
- hyperlinking — Present participle of hyperlink.
- hypersensual — extremely or excessively sensual
- hypersomniac — a tendency to sleep excessively.
- hypersthenia — abnormal strength or tension
- hypertension — Pathology. elevation of the blood pressure, especially the diastolic pressure. an arterial disease characterized by this condition.
- hypertensive — characterized by or causing high blood pressure.
- hypnogenesis — induction of the hypnotic state.
- hypnotherapy — treatment of a symptom, disease, or addiction by means of hypnotism.
- hypnotisable — Alternative spelling of hypnotizable.
- hypnotizable — One who is susceptible to hypnosis.
- hypokeimenon — Alternative spelling of hupokeimenon.
- hyponatremia — (medicine) An abnormally low concentration of sodium (or salt) in blood plasma.
- hypophonesis — a sound of less than usual intensity in percussion or auscultation.
- hypoxanthine — a white, crystalline, almost water-soluble, alkaloidal purine derivative, C 5 H 4 N 4 O, found in animal and vegetable tissues: used chiefly in biochemical research.