12-letter words containing r, e, p, l
- followership — the ability or willingness to follow a leader.
- fore-topsail — a topsail set on a foremast on a ship.
- forepleasure — the aggregate of pleasurable sensations that lead to a heightened physical or emotional response, as of those aroused in sexual intercourse that lead to an orgasm.
- foretopsails — Plural form of foretopsail.
- forlorn hope — a perilous or desperate enterprise.
- former pupil — someone who used to attend a particular school or be a student of a particular teacher
- french pleat — curtain, draperies
- fuel poverty — the state of being unable to afford to heat one's home adequately
- full powered — (of a vessel) relying on engines for propulsion without assistance from sails.
- funeral plan — A funeral plan is a basic life insurance policy that provides money to pay for the policyholder's funeral expenses when they die.
- funeral pyre — bonfire for cremation
- galactophore — a galactophorous duct.
- galley proof — a proof, originally one set from type in a galley, taken before the material has been made up into pages and usually printed as a single column of type with wide margins for marking corrections.
- gallinippers — Plural form of gallinipper.
- garlic press — kitchen tool for crushing garlic
- general shop — a shop that sells various types of goods
- generalships — Plural form of generalship.
- gentleperson — a person of good family and position; gentleman or lady.
- geographical — of or relating to geography.
- germanophile — a person who is friendly toward or admires or studies Germany or German culture.
- gerontophile — someone who is sexually attracted to old people
- glacier peak — a volcanic mountain in NW central Washington, in the Cascade range. 10,541 feet (3213 meters).
- glucoprotein — glycoprotein.
- glycerolipid — (organic chemistry) Any lipid based on glycerol.
- glycoprotein — any of a group of complex proteins, as mucin, containing a carbohydrate combined with a simple protein.
- gold therapy — administration of gold salts as a treatment for disease, especially rheumatoid arthritis.
- golden perch — a freshwater food fish, Plectroplites ambiguus, that inhabits inland waters of Australia.
- golden syrup — treacle (def 2b).
- gospel choir — a choir performing gospel music
- gospel truth — an unquestionably true statement, fact, etc.
- grape family — the plant family Vitaceae, characterized by woody climbing vines with tendrils, having alternate, simple or compound leaves, and bearing clusters of small flowers and berries, and including Boston ivy, grape, grape ivy, and Virginia creeper.
- grapple shot — a grapnellike projectile fired from a gun and used as a hold for the end of a line in rescue operations or in kedging.
- great plague — the bubonic plague that occurred in London in 1665 and killed about 15 percent of the city's population.
- great plains — a semiarid region E of the Rocky Mountains, in the U.S. and Canada.
- green plover — lapwing.
- grimsel pass — an Alpine pass in S Switzerland. 7159 feet (2184 meters) high.
- ground plane — (in perspective drawing) the theoretical horizontal plane receding from the picture plane to the horizon, beginning at the level of the base line.
- ground plate — Electricity. a metal plate for making a ground connection to the earth.
- groupuscules — Plural form of groupuscule.
- h paul grice — H(erbert) Paul, 1913–88, English philosopher.
- hall process — a process in which aluminum is refined by electrolytic reduction of alumina fused with cryolite.
- helicographs — Plural form of helicograph.
- helicoptered — Simple past tense and past participle of helicopter.
- heliographed — Simple past tense and past participle of heliograph.
- heliographer — (obsolete) Photographer.
- heliographic — a device for signaling by means of a movable mirror that reflects beams of light, especially sunlight, to a distance.
- heliospheric — Of or pertaining to the heliosphere.
- heliotherapy — treatment of disease by means of sunlight.
- heliotropism — heliotropic tendency or growth.
- helmspersons — Plural form of helmsperson.