12-letter words containing p, r, e, n, a
- unpersonable — of pleasing personal appearance; handsome or comely; attractive.
- unpersuasive — not capable of persuading
- unpleasantry — an unpleasant word, action, comment, etc.: comments filled with unpleasantries.
- unpredicated — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
- unpreferable — more desirable.
- unprelatical — not befitting a prelate
- unprevailing — lacking force, not effective
- unprocedural — not procedural, not following proper procedures
- unproclaimed — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
- unprocurable — obtainable.
- unprofitable — being without profit; not showing or turning a profit: a series of unprofitable ventures.
- unprogrammed — a plan of action to accomplish a specified end: a school lunch program.
- unreciprocal — given or felt by each toward the other; mutual: reciprocal respect.
- unrecoupable — to get back the equivalent of: to recoup one's losses by a lucky investment.
- unrepairable — that cannot be repaired: Some old clocks are unrepairable.
- unrepealable — not able to be repealed, rescinded, or annulled
- unrepeatable — to say or utter again (something already said): to repeat a word for emphasis.
- unrepentance — the state of being unrepentant, impenitent, or unremorseful
- unreportable — not able to be reported, relayed, or spoken of
- unreproached — not reproached, criticized, or scolded
- unreprovable — not able to be reproved, reproached, or criticized
- unrepulsable — not able to be repulsed or driven back
- untrespassed — Law. an unlawful act causing injury to the person, property, or rights of another, committed with force or violence, actual or implied. a wrongful entry upon the lands of another. the action to recover damages for such an injury.
- up-and-comer — likely to succeed; bright and industrious: an up-and-coming young executive.
- up-and-under — a high kick forwards followed by a charge to the place where the ball lands
- upper canada — a former British province in Canada 1791–1840: now the S part of Ontario province.
- valve spring — a helical spring used to hold closed a valve in the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine
- van der post — Sir Laurens (Jan). 1906–96, South African writer and traveller. His works include the travel books Venture to the Interior (1952), The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958), and Testament to the Bushmen (1984) and the novels The Hunter and the Whale (1967) and The Admiral's Baby (1996)
- vanity press — a printing house that specializes in publishing books for which the authors pay all or most of the costs.
- vaporescence — production or formation of vapor.
- vaporishness — the quality or state of being vaporish
- veneer patch — a patch made in one of the veneers of a sheet of plywood before layup.
- vespertilian — of, relating to, or resembling a bat
- vituperation — verbal abuse or castigation; violent denunciation or condemnation.
- voting paper — a ballot.
- wallpapering — Present participle of wallpaper.
- warp-knitted — designating a fabric made by warp knitting.
- watering pot — a container for water, typically of metal or plastic and having a spout with a perforated nozzle, for watering or sprinkling plants, flowers, etc.
- watermanship — the skill, duties, business, etc., of a waterman.
- weaponeering — the act of fitting out with weapons
- web scraping — the extraction and copying of data from a website into a structured format using a computer program: Hackers pose a threat with techniques like web scraping. Our search engine uses web scraping to index sites.
- western cape — a province of W South Africa, created in 1994 from the SW part of Cape Province: agriculture (esp fruit), wine making, fishing, various industries in Cape Town. Capital: Cape Town. Pop: 5 822 734 (2011 est). Area: 129 370 sq km (49 950 sq miles)
- whooper swan — a common, Old World swan, Cygnus cygnus, distinguished by a yellow patch at the base of its bill, noted for its whooping cry.
- wranglership — (at Cambridge University) the position of a wrangler
- xanthopterin — a yellow pigment, C6H5N5O2, found in some butterfly or moth wings or in the urine of mammals
- yachtsperson — A yachtsman or yachtswoman.
- zephyranthes — any of various bulbous plants belonging to the genus Zephyranthes, of the amaryllis family, as Z. grandiflora, having showy rose or pink flowers.
- zip fastener — a zipper.
- zone therapy — a type of massage which works on the theory that specific parts of the foot or palm of the hand are associated with different parts of the body, and that massaging the feet or hands will give the patient relief from disorders in the related part of the body