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12-letter words containing p, r, e, o, t, n

  • eden project — an environmental complex containing the world's largest greenhouse, built in a disused clay pit near St Austell, Cornwall, to study plant populations in a variety of environments
  • electrophone — (music) any instrument designed to create sounds using electrical currents.
  • emancipators — Plural form of emancipator.
  • emancipatory — Of or pertaining to emancipation or to an emancipator.
  • enantiomorph — Each of two crystalline or other geometric forms that are mirror images of each other.
  • enantiotropy — the possibility for stable polymorphs to exist in different states on either side of a transition-point temperature
  • endoparasite — A parasite, such as a tapeworm, that lives inside its host.
  • enteropneust — a worm-like marine invertebrate
  • enteroptosis — Visceroptosis of the intestines.
  • entoplastral — relating to an entoplastron
  • entoplastron — the median plate of a turtle's plastron
  • entropically — By means of or in relation to entropy.
  • entry coupon — a coupon which you have to fill in with personal details and answers to be eligible to win a prize
  • epanorthosis — (rhetoric) A rhetorical device or element in which a speaker or writer retracts a word that has been spoken and substitutes a stronger or more suitable word; often done for emphasis or sarcasm.
  • epistolarian — A writer of epistles.
  • equiparation — the act of regarding as the same; the act of comparing
  • erythropenia — A decrease in the number of erythrocytes, associated with anemia.
  • ethnographer — One who practices ethnography.
  • ethnographic — Relating to ethnography.
  • evaporations — Plural form of evaporation.
  • exasperation — A feeling of intense irritation or annoyance.
  • expatriation — Voluntary migration from one's native land to another.
  • expectorants — Plural form of expectorant.
  • explorations — Plural form of exploration.
  • export agent — an person who acts on behalf of a business to develop a market for a product or service in a foreign country
  • exprobration — the act of reproaching
  • extropianism — Belief in, or support for, the theory of extropy.
  • fetoproteins — Plural form of fetoprotein.
  • first person — the grammatical person used by a speaker in statements referring to himself or herself (first person singular) or to a group including himself or herself (first person plural)
  • flavoprotein — an enzyme, containing riboflavin and linked chemically with a protein, active in the oxidation of foods in animal cells.
  • fleet prison — (formerly) a London prison, esp used for holding debtors
  • flow pattern — The flow pattern is the way in which fluids move through a reactor.
  • foetoprotein — Alternative spelling of fetoprotein.
  • fort pickensAndrew, 1739–1817, American Revolutionary general.
  • fortepianist — the player of a fortepiano
  • foundry type — type cast in individual characters for setting by hand.
  • freeing port — an opening in the bottom of a bulwark, for rapid drainage of a weather deck in heavy seas; scupper.
  • frontispiece — an illustrated leaf preceding the title page of a book.
  • gentleperson — a person of good family and position; gentleman or lady.
  • gerontophile — someone who is sexually attracted to old people
  • gerontophobe — a person who fears or hates old people or the idea of growing old
  • giant powder — dynamite composed of nitroglycerin and kieselguhr.
  • glucoprotein — glycoprotein.
  • glycoprotein — any of a group of complex proteins, as mucin, containing a carbohydrate combined with a simple protein.
  • ground plate — Electricity. a metal plate for making a ground connection to the earth.
  • 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
  • haemoprotein — Alternative spelling of hemoprotein.
  • heptahedrons — Plural form of heptahedron.
  • hernioplasty — an operation for the repair of a hernia.
  • herpetofauna — the reptiles and amphibians that inhabit a given area
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