11-letter words containing p, e, r, t
- fire temple — a place of worship for Zoroastrians.
- foetiparous — (of a marsupial) bearing young before they are fully developed.
- footscraper — a metal bar, set in a small frame and attached to a doorstep, used in cleaning mud from the bottoms of the shoes before entering a house.
- forepayment — prepayment
- forest park — a city in NW Georgia.
- foretopmast — (nautical) The mast above the foretop.
- foretopsail — (nautical) the sail draped from the foretopmast.
- fort casper — a fort in central Wyoming, near Casper: an important post on the Oregon Trail.
- fort pierce — a city on the E coast of Florida.
- forte-piano — loud and then immediately soft
- fortepianos — Plural form of fortepiano.
- four-poster — a bed with four corner posts, as for supporting a canopy, curtains, etc.
- free spirit — a person with a highly individual or unique attitude, lifestyle, or imagination; nonconformist.
- frost grape — riverbank grape.
- ftp archive — archive site
- gaffer tape — strong adhesive tape used in electrical repairs
- gametophore — a part or structure bearing gametangia.
- garden path — paved walkway
- garden-path — noting or pertaining to a sentence that is easily parsed incorrectly because its beginning suggests it has an interpretation that it clearly does not have.
- gastroscope — a lighted flexible tubular instrument passed through the mouth for examining the esophagus, stomach, and duodenum.
- gatekeepers — Plural form of gatekeeper.
- geostrophic — of or relating to the balance between the Coriolis force and the horizontal pressure force in the atmosphere.
- gerontophil — experiencing sexual attraction to old people
- giftwrapped — wrapped attractively in pretty paper, perhaps with ribbons or other decorations
- go to press — When a newspaper or magazine goes to press, it starts being printed.
- gob-stopper — a large piece of hard candy.
- gobstoppers — Plural form of gobstopper.
- gomphothere — Any of the extinct proboscideans of the family Gomphotheriidae, that lived in North America and Eurasia during the Miocene and Pliocene (12\u20141.6 million years ago), and latterly also in South America (around 3 million to 9100 years ago).
- gonadotrope — a gonadotropic substance.
- grade point — Education. a numerical equivalent to a received letter grade, usually 0 for F, 1 for D, 2 for C, 3 for B, and 4 for A, that is multiplied by the number of credits for the course: used to compute a grade point average.
- graded post — a position in a school having special responsibility for which additional payment is given
- grandparent — a parent of a parent.
- grape stake — a post used in vineyards to support wires along which grapevines are trained.
- grapefruits — Plural form of grapefruit.
- grapefruity — Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.
- graphitized — (chemistry, of carbon) Converted to graphite.
- graptolites — Plural form of graptolite.
- greasepaint — an oily mixture of melted tallow or grease and a pigment, used by actors, clowns, etc., for making up their faces.
- great power — a nation that has exceptional military and economic strength, and consequently plays a major, often decisive, role in international affairs.
- green party — a liberal political party especially in Germany focusing on environmental issues.
- green stamp — Citizens Band Radio Slang. a speeding ticket. Usually, Green Stamps. money; currency.
- grey import — an imported vehicle that does not have an exact model equivalent in the receiving country
- gripe water — a solution given to infants to relieve colic
- guttersnipe — a person belonging to or characteristic of the lowest social group in a city.
- hall porter — concierge
- hard palate — Anatomy. the roof of the mouth, consisting of an anterior bony portion (hard palate) and a posterior muscular portion (soft palate) that separate the oral cavity from the nasal cavity.
- harem pants — a kind of baggy trousers worn by women, made of lightweight fabric and closefitting at the ankles
- haruspicate — of or relating to a haruspex
- headstripes — Plural form of headstripe.
- heartshaped — Alternative form of heart-shaped.