12-letter words containing r, e, l, a, p
- triple cream — a fresh, soft cheese of France, containing at least 72 percent fat, made from cow's milk enriched with cream.
- triple-space — to type (copy) so as to leave two full spaces between lines
- tropicalised — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- tropicalized — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- trumpet call — a blast made by a trumpet that serves as a summons or call
- trumpet-leaf — trumpets.
- trying plane — a plane with a long body for planing the edges of long boards
- trypaflavine — acriflavine hydrochloride.
- ultraprecise — extremely accurate
- unapparelled — lacking clothing; unattired
- unapprovable — capable of being approved.
- uncapturable — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- uncomparable — capable of being compared; having features in common with something else to permit or suggest comparison: He considered the Roman and British empires to be comparable.
- underlapping — to extend partly under.
- unexplorable — to traverse or range over (a region, area, etc.) for the purpose of discovery: to explore the island.
- unparalleled — not paralleled; unequaled or unmatched; peerless; unprecedented: unparalleled athletic ability.
- unpardonable — kind indulgence, as in forgiveness of an offense or discourtesy or in tolerance of a distraction or inconvenience: I beg your pardon, but which way is Spruce Street?
- unpenetrable — capable of being penetrated.
- unperishable — imperishable
- unpersonable — of pleasing personal appearance; handsome or comely; attractive.
- unpleasantry — an unpleasant word, action, comment, etc.: comments filled with unpleasantries.
- 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.
- 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- unrepealable — not able to be repealed, rescinded, or annulled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.
- unreportable — not able to be reported, relayed, or spoken of
- unreprovable — not able to be reproved, reproached, or criticized
- unrepulsable — not able to be repulsed or driven back
- valve spring — a helical spring used to hold closed a valve in the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine
- variocoupler — a transformer having coils with a self-impedance that is essentially constant but a mutual impedance that can be varied by moving one coil with respect to the other.
- vellum paper — a creamy coloured heavy paper resembling vellum
- velociraptor — a small carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Velociraptor , from the late Cretaceous period, capable of leaping, and growing to a length of about 6 feet (2 meters), having feathers, a flat snout, short forelimbs with large handlike talons, and a large sickle-shaped claw on each foot.
- vespertilian — of, relating to, or resembling a bat
- video player — VCR: videotape recorder
- viola player — someone who plays the viola
- walk-up rate — The walk-up rate at a hotel is the price charged to a customer who arrives without a reservation.
- wall creeper — a small, gray and crimson Old World bird, Tichodroma muraria, that inhabits cliffs in mountainous areas.
- wallpapering — Present participle of wallpaper.
- walter pater — Walter Horatio, 1839–94, English critic, essayist, and novelist.
- water pistol — a toy gun that shoots a stream of liquid.
- water splash — a place where a stream runs over a road
- water supply — the supply of purified water available to a community.