12-letter words containing p, u, t, r, e
- expenditures — Plural form of expenditure.
- export house — a company that does not manufacture goods but is instead concerned solely with the financing or handling of their export
- fire support — support given by artillery and aircraft to infantry and armored vehicles.
- fluorapatite — a crystalline mineral, Ca 5 (PO 4) 3 F, formed from hydroxyapatite in the presence of fluoride, that has a hardening effect on bones and teeth.
- foundry type — type cast in individual characters for setting by hand.
- four-striper — a captain in the U.S. Navy.
- fruit-picker — a person or a tool that picks fruit from trees
- fuel poverty — the state of being unable to afford to heat one's home adequately
- future-proof — (of a system, computer, program, etc) guaranteed not to be superseded by future versions, developments, etc
- glucoprotein — glycoprotein.
- gospel truth — an unquestionably true statement, fact, etc.
- graduateship — the time or condition of being a graduate
- great plague — the bubonic plague that occurred in London in 1665 and killed about 15 percent of the city's population.
- 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
- group theory — the branch of mathematics that deals with the structure of mathematical groups and mappings between them.
- gutta-percha — the milky juice, nearly white when pure, of various Malaysian trees of the sapodilla family, especially Palaquium gutta.
- gutter press — press specializing in sensationalism
- guttersnipes — Plural form of guttersnipe.
- herpetofauna — the reptiles and amphibians that inhabit a given area
- heteroduplex — having polynucleotide strands derived from two different sources
- hippocentaur — Centaur.
- holy picture — a picture of a person or thing that is of religious importance
- housepainter — A professional painter of houses.
- hypermutable — Of or in a state in which mutation is abnormally frequent.
- hypertextual — Of or relating to hypertext.
- implicatures — Plural form of implicature.
- imprest fund — a fund of petty cash.
- in perpetuum — for ever
- incorruptive — incorruptible; not tending to be corrupted
- inoperculate — having no operculum.
- internuptial — Of, or related to intermarriage.
- interpleural — situated between the pleurae
- interpluvial — designating a drier period occurring between two periods of persistently heavy rainfall
- interrupters — Plural form of interrupter.
- interrupting — to cause or make a break in the continuity or uniformity of (a course, process, condition, etc.).
- interruption — an act or instance of interrupting.
- interruptive — to cause or make a break in the continuity or uniformity of (a course, process, condition, etc.).
- interspinous — located between spines, esp between the vertebrae
- interspousal — Often, spousals. the ceremony of marriage; nuptials.
- intrapreneur — an employee of a large corporation who is given freedom and financial support to create new products, services, systems, etc., and does not have to follow the corporation's usual routines or protocols.
- jeu d'esprit — a witticism.
- jump shooter — a player skilled at jump shots.
- jurisprudent — versed in jurisprudence.
- ketone group — the characteristic group occurring in ketones that consists of the carbonyl group attached to two alkyl groups.
- laureateship — a person who has been honored for achieving distinction in a particular field or with a particular award: a Nobel laureate.
- lectureships — Plural form of lectureship.
- leptospermum — any of various shrubs or trees of the genus Leptospermum, of the myrtle family, native to Australia and adjacent areas and often cultivated as ornamentals in milder climates.
- life support — equipment to sustain a patient's life
- life-support — of or relating to equipment or measures that sustain or artificially substitute for essential body functions, as breathing or disposal of body wastes: Without life-support equipment, the patient might die.