12-letter words containing p, e, n
- 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.
- groundkeeper — groundskeeper.
- group of ten — the ten nations who met in Paris in 1961 to arrange the special drawing rights of the IMF: Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, UK, US, and West Germany
- guttersnipes — Plural form of guttersnipe.
- haemoprotein — Alternative spelling of hemoprotein.
- hairpin bend — A hairpin bend or a hairpin is a very sharp bend in a road, where the road turns back in the opposite direction.
- 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.
- hand-painted — painted by a person rather than a machine
- hand-printed — (of numbers, letters, or designs) printed, or put on a surface, by hand rather than by machine
- handicapable — (politically correct) disabled or handicapped.
- handicappeds — Plural form of handicapped.
- handicappers — Plural form of handicapper.
- handies peak — a peak in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,048 feet (4285 meters).
- handypersons — Plural form of handyperson.
- hanging step — a step projecting from a wall with no real or apparent support at its outer end.
- hanover park — a city in NE Illinois.
- happenchance — happenstance.
- happenstance — a chance happening or event.
- hasenpfeffer — a stew of marinated rabbit meat garnished usually with sour cream.
- have company — If you have company, you have a visitor or friend with you.
- have pity on — to have sympathy or show mercy for
- hebephreniac — a person suffering from hebephrenia
- heckelphones — Plural form of heckelphone.
- hedgehopping — Present participle of hedgehop.
- hellespontus — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars.
- helmsmanship — the skill or function of a helmsman
- helmspersons — Plural form of helmsperson.
- help on with — If you help someone on with an item of clothing, you help them put it on.
- help screens — computer instructions displayed on a visual display unit
- helping hand — aid; assistance: to give the destitute a helping hand.
- helping verb — auxiliary verb.
- helplessness — unable to help oneself; weak or dependent: a helpless invalid.
- hemiplankton — plankton that spend part of their life cycle in a vegetative state on the sea bottom, riverbed, etc. (opposed to holoplankton).
- henle's loop — loop of Henle.
- hepadnavirus — Any member of the virus family Hepadnaviridae, capable of causing liver infections in humans and animals.
- hepatization — the transformation of tissue into a liver-like substance, esp of the lungs in pneumonia
- hepatogenous — originating in the liver
- hepatotoxins — Plural form of hepatotoxin.
- heptahedrons — Plural form of heptahedron.
- hernioplasty — an operation for the repair of a hernia.
- herpetofauna — the reptiles and amphibians that inhabit a given area
- heterophonic — the simultaneous performance of the same melodic line, with slight individual variations, by two or more performers.
- heteropteran — A bug of the group Heteroptera.
- hickory pine — bristlecone pine.
- hiding place — location where sb is concealed
- hierophanies — Plural form of hierophany.
- 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.
- high-protein — (of a food) rich in proteins