12-letter words containing p, u, t
- dust wrapper — dust jacket (sense 1)
- east prussia — a former province in NE Germany: an enclave separated from Germany by the Polish Corridor; now divided between Poland and the Russian Federation. 14,283 sq. mi. (36,993 sq. km). Capital: Königsberg.
- egyptian mau — a breed of medium-sized cat with a spotted coat of medium length
- elephant gun — hunting rifle
- empyreumatic — relating to empyreuma
- encapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of encapsulate.
- encapsulates — Enclose (something) in or as if in a capsule.
- enteropneust — a worm-like marine invertebrate
- entrepreneur — A person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so.
- entry coupon — a coupon which you have to fill in with personal details and answers to be eligible to win a prize
- epicuticular — Relating to the epicuticle.
- epithalamium — A song or poem celebrating a marriage.
- equimultiple — one of a series of amounts or numbers that each consist of another amount or number an equal number of times
- equiparation — the act of regarding as the same; the act of comparing
- escape chute — a fabric tube or chute hinged to the wall of a stairwell and used as an emergency exit, eg from a burning tall building
- escape route — way out: of situation
- eucalyptuses — Plural form of eucalyptus.
- euphoniumist — Someone who plays the euphonium.
- eutrophicate — (ecology, intransitive) To become eutrophic.
- executorship — The office or position of an executor.
- exhaust pipe — vehicle's gas outlet
- exophthalmus — Alt form exophthalmos.
- 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
- expostulated — Simple past tense and past participle of expostulate.
- expostulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of expostulate.
- expugnations — Plural form of expugnation.
- factor group — quotient group.
- fipple flute — a recorder or other flutelike instrument equipped with a fipple.
- 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.
- foot-poundal — a foot-pound-second unit of work or energy equal to the work done by a force of one poundal when its point of application moves through a distance of one foot in the direction of the force. Abbreviation: ft-pdl.
- fort pulaski — Count Casimir [kaz-uh-meer] /ˈkæz əˌmɪər/ (Show IPA), 1748–79, Polish patriot; general in the American Revolutionary army.
- fortran-plus — Fortran for the DAP parallel machine, implements many Fortran 90 features.
- foundry type — type cast in individual characters for setting by hand.
- fountain pen — a pen with a refillable reservoir that provides a continuous supply of usually fluid ink to its point.
- 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
- gamopetalous — having the petals united.
- gap junction — a linkage of two adjacent cells consisting of a system of channels extending across a gap from one cell to the other, allowing the passage of ions and small molecules.
- get the hump — If someone gets the hump, they get very annoyed about something.
- get up steam — (of a ship, etc) to work up a sufficient head of steam in a boiler to drive an engine
- glove puppet — a small figure of a person or animal that fits over and is manipulated by the hand
- 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.
- gross output — the total output of a firm, industry, or economy without deducting intermediate costs