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

  • jumping hare — springhare.
  • kinetography — a camera for taking pictures for a kinetoscope.
  • lactoprotein — any protein existing in milk.
  • landed price — the price when delivered
  • leapfrogging — Present participle of leapfrog.
  • lepidopteran — lepidopterous.
  • life partner — one member of a monogamous relationship.
  • linear graph — graph (def 2b).
  • linear space — vector space.
  • linear-graph — a diagram representing a system of connections or interrelations among two or more things by a number of distinctive dots, lines, bars, etc.
  • linen draper — a dry-goods merchant.
  • lipoproteina — a plasma lipoprotein containing protein and cholesterol, high levels of which are associated with atherosclerosis.
  • liverpolitan — a native or inhabitant of Liverpool
  • liverpudlian — a seaport in Merseyside, in W England, on the Mersey estuary.
  • malimprinted — (of an animal or person) suffering from a defect in the behavioural process of imprinting, resulting in attraction to members of other species, fetishism, etc
  • manila paper — strong, light-brown or buff paper, originally made from Manila hemp but now also from wood pulp substitutes and various other fibers.
  • manspreading — the practice by a male passenger on public transport of sitting with his legs wide apart, so denying space to passengers beside him
  • marimbaphone — (obsolete, music) A kind of percussion idiophone, like the marimba but with steel keys instead of wood, developed in early 20th century United States.
  • marine corps — a branch of the U.S. Armed Forces trained for land, sea, and air combat, typically for land combat in conjunction with an amphibious or airborne landing, and whose commandant is responsible to the secretary of the navy.
  • marlinespike — a pointed iron implement used in separating the strands of rope in splicing, marling, etc.
  • marlingspike — Alternative spelling of marlinspike.
  • martempering — a quenching process used to harden austenitic steel.
  • master point — a point awarded to a bridge player who has won or placed in an officially recognized tournament.
  • master print — an original copy of a cinema film that can be used to produce other copies
  • meanspirited — petty; small-minded; ungenerous: a meanspirited man, unwilling to forgive.
  • media person — a person who works in the mass media
  • median strip — a paved, planted, or landscaped strip in the center of a highway that separates lanes of traffic going in opposite directions.
  • melanotropin — MSH.
  • metaphrasing — Present participle of metaphrase.
  • metropolitan — of, noting, or characteristic of a metropolis or its inhabitants, especially in culture, sophistication, or in accepting and combining a wide variety of people, ideas, etc.
  • micropayment — A very small payment made each time a user accesses an Internet page or service.
  • microplanner — A subset of PLANNER, implemented in Lisp by Gerald Sussman et al at MIT. Its important features were goal-oriented, pattern-directed procedure invocation, an embedded knowledge base, and automatic backtracking. microPLANNER was superseded by Conniver.
  • minor planet — asteroid (def 1).
  • misanthropes — Plural form of misanthrope.
  • misapprehend — to misunderstand.
  • misoperation — an act or instance, process, or manner of functioning or operating.
  • nanoparticle — a microscopic particle of matter that is measured on the nanoscale, usually one that measures less than 100 nanometers.
  • napier grass — a tall, leafy grass, Pennisetum purpureum, native to Africa, grown as a forage plant.
  • nature strip — a grass strip in front of a house between a fence or footpath and a roadway
  • necrophiliac — an erotic attraction to corpses.
  • neoanthropic — neanthropic.
  • nephropathic — characterized by or relating to nephropathy
  • neuropathies — Plural form of neuropathy.
  • neuropathist — a specialist in treating diseases of the nervous system; a neurologist
  • neuroplastic — Of or pertaining to neuroplasticity.
  • neurotypical — relating to or showing typical neurological behavior and development: She has one dyslexic and one neurotypical child.
  • new paradigm — a set of beliefs that replaces another set which is believed no longer to apply
  • newspapering — Present participle of newspaper.
  • newspaperism — anything characteristic of newspapers, esp a word or phrase used only by journalists
  • night prayer — the last of the seven canonical hours; compline
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