12-letter words containing p, o, e, l, i
- thermophilic — growing best in a warm environment.
- thiosulphate — any salt of thiosulphuric acid
- toilet paper — a soft, lightweight, sanitized paper used in bathrooms for personal cleanliness.
- transponible — capable of being transposed.
- triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
- trial period — time during which sth can be evaluated
- tribespeople — members of a tribe; people living a tribal lifestyle
- tricephalous — with three heads
- triple bogey — a score of three strokes over par on a hole.
- triple crown — an unofficial title held by a horse that wins the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, and the Belmont Stakes in a single season.
- triple point — the particular temperature and pressure at which the solid, liquid, and gaseous phases of a given substance are all at equilibrium with one another.
- triple voile — a lightweight, sheer voile of silk or synthetic fibers constructed in plain or novelty weaves.
- tropicalised — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- tropicalized — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- trouser clip — a clip that is worn around the bottom of a trouser leg to stop the material getting caught in the chain of a bicycle
- unapologetic — containing an apology or excuse for a fault, failure, insult, injury, etc.: An apologetic letter to his creditors explained the delay.
- uncompelling — tending to compel, as to force or push toward a course of action; overpowering: There were compelling reasons for their divorce.
- uncomplicate — to make complex, intricate, involved, or difficult: His recovery from the operation was complicated by an allergic reaction.
- underexploit — to make insufficient use of
- unhospitable — not hospitable
- unipotential — Electricity, Electronics. having uniform electric potential throughout, as a hot cathode (unipotential cathode) indirectly heated by a separate heater circuit so that there is no lateral change of voltage across the cathode due to resistance to a heating current.
- unpavilioned — not provided with a pavilion
- unpoetically — in an unpoetic manner
- unpolishable — incapable of being made smooth or shiny
- unpoliteness — the quality or state of being impolite
- unproclaimed — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
- unprofitable — being without profit; not showing or turning a profit: a series of unprofitable ventures.
- unreciprocal — given or felt by each toward the other; mutual: reciprocal respect.
- utility pole — one of a series of large, upright poles used to support telephone wires, electric cables, or the like.
- valpolicella — a dry, red table wine from the Veneto region of northern Italy.
- variocoupler — a transformer having coils with a self-impedance that is essentially constant but a mutual impedance that can be varied by moving one coil with respect to the other.
- velcro strip — a strip or roll of Velcro, able to be cut to the required length
- velocipedean — someone who rides a velocipede
- velociraptor — a small carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Velociraptor , from the late Cretaceous period, capable of leaping, and growing to a length of about 6 feet (2 meters), having feathers, a flat snout, short forelimbs with large handlike talons, and a large sickle-shaped claw on each foot.
- video player — VCR: videotape recorder
- viola player — someone who plays the viola
- voltaic pile — an early battery cell, consisting of several metal disks, each made of one of two dissimilar metals, arranged in an alternating series, and separated by pads moistened with an electrolyte.
- wages policy — a government policy setting wages and wage increases for workers, for example, setting minimum wage requirements
- water pistol — a toy gun that shoots a stream of liquid.
- webliography — a list of electronic documents, websites, or other resources available on the World Wide Web, especially those relating to a particular subject: a student's annotated webliography on Shakespeare.
- well-pointed — having a point or points: a pointed arch.
- whistle-stop — to campaign for political office by traveling around the country, originally by train, stopping at small communities to address voters.
- white poplar — Also called abele. an Old World poplar, Populus alba, widely cultivated in the U.S., having the underside of the leaves covered with a dense silvery-white down.
- yellow peril — (in historical contexts) the alleged danger that predominantly white Western civilizations and populations could be overwhelmed by Asian peoples.
- zebulon pike — James Albert, 1913–69, U.S. Protestant Episcopal clergyman, lawyer, and author.