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12-letter words containing p, t, e

  • bomber pilot — the pilot of a bomber
  • boobytrapped — to set with or as if with a booby trap; attach a booby trap to or in.
  • booklet pane — Philately. any of a number of panes or small pages of postage stamps, stapled together into a booklet for the convenience of users.
  • booster pump — A booster pump is a pump which is used where pressure is low and needs to be increased.
  • boot-scraper — a contraption consisting of an upright metal shape formerly placed outside some houses to enable people to scrape the mud from their boots before going in
  • bootleg play — a play in which the quarterback pretends to hand the ball to a teammate, hides it by placing it next to his hip, and runs with it.
  • bottle party — a party to which guests bring drink
  • bracket lamp — a wall light that is attached to the wall by a bracket
  • branch depot — one of a several depots receiving stock from the same central supplier
  • breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
  • breath group — a sequence of sounds articulated in the course of a single exhalation; an utterance or part of an utterance produced between pauses for breath.
  • brevipennate — (of flightless birds) short-winged
  • bridge party — a gathering for the purpose of playing bridge
  • bubble point — the temperature at which bubbles just start to appear in a heated liquid mixture
  • buck private — a common soldier
  • bullet point — A bullet point is one of a series of important items for discussion or action in a document, usually marked by a square or round symbol.
  • bullet-proof — Something that is bullet-proof is made of a strong material that bullets cannot pass through.
  • butcher shop — a shop in which meat, poultry, and sometimes fish are sold.
  • butter paper — a semi-transparent, waterproof paper used for wrapping butter, etc
  • caloreceptor — a receptor stimulated by heat.
  • camp meeting — a religious meeting held in a large tent or outdoors, often lasting several days
  • camper truck — a pickup truck having a camper mounted on the truck body.
  • camphor tree — a lauraceous evergreen E Asian tree, Cinnamomum camphora, whose aromatic wood yields camphor
  • camping site — A camping site is the same as a campsite.
  • can't happen — (programming)   The traditional program comment for code executed under a condition that should never be true, for example a file size computed as negative. Often, such a condition being true indicates data corruption or a faulty algorithm; it is almost always handled by emitting a fatal error message and terminating or crashing, since there is little else that can be done. Some case variant of "can't happen" is also often the text emitted if the "impossible" error actually happens. Although "can't happen" events are genuinely infrequent in production code, programmers wise enough to check for them habitually are often surprised at how frequently they are triggered during development and how many headaches checking for them turns out to head off. See also firewall code, professional programming.
  • candy stripe — a pattern of bright stripes of one color against a plain background, used chiefly in fabrics.
  • canton crepe — a fine crinkled silk or rayon crepe fabric, slightly heavier than crepe de Chine
  • capabilities — the quality of being capable; capacity; ability: His capability was unquestionable.
  • capacitances — Plural form of capacitance.
  • capacitively — (physics, electronics) In relation to or in terms of capacitance.
  • cape matapan — a cape in S Greece, at the S central tip of the Peloponnese: the southern point of the mainland of Greece
  • cape ortegal — a cape in NW Spain, projecting into the Bay of Biscay
  • cape-lookout — Cape, a sandy reef in the Outer Banks, off E North Carolina, SW of Cape Hatteras: lighthouse.
  • capital levy — a tax on capital or property as contrasted with a tax on income
  • capitol peak — a mountain in W central Colorado, in the Elk range of the Rocky Mountains. 14,130 feet (4310 meters).
  • capitularies — Plural form of capitulary.
  • captiousness — The state of being captious.
  • captive-bred — bred in captivity
  • cargo pocket — a large patch pocket, usually pleated at the sides and often having a flap.
  • carpentering — a person who builds or repairs wooden structures, as houses, scaffolds, or shelving.
  • carpet grass — either of two grasses, Axonopus affinis or A. compressus, native to tropical and subtropical America.
  • carpet shark — any of various sharks of the family Orectolobidae, having two dorsal fins and a patterned back, typically marked with white and brown
  • carpet snake — a large nonvenomous Australian snake, Morelia variegata, having a carpetlike pattern on its back
  • carpet tiles — small pieces of carpeting laid as tiles to cover a floor
  • carpetbagged — Simple past tense and past participle of carpetbag.
  • carpetbagger — If you call someone a carpetbagger, you disapprove of them because they are trying to become a politician in an area which is not their home, simply because they think they are more likely to succeed there.
  • carpetbeater — A tool used in housecleaning that was in common use before the invention of the vacuum cleaner.
  • carpetmonger — a person who frequently visits women's boudoirs
  • carry permit — a license to carry a handgun on one's person.
  • cartographer — A cartographer is a person whose job is drawing maps.
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