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12-letter words containing t, a, p, e, w

  • answer print — a motion-picture film print composed of picture and sound, used for evaluation.
  • antwerp blue — any of several iron-blue pigments, usually containing a considerable amount of extender.
  • apple newton — (computer)   A Personal Digital Assistant produced by Apple Computer. The Newton provides a clever, user-friendly interface and relies solely on pen-based input. Eagerly anticipated, the Newton uses handwriting recognition software to "learn" the users handwriting and provide reliable character recognition. Various third-party software applications are available and add-on peripherals like wireless modems for Internet access are being sold by Apple Computer, Inc. and its licensees.
  • appletviewer — (web, testing)   A simplified web browser used for testing applets. You can't browse HTML with it but you can run applets to test them before embedding them in a web page.
  • atomic power — nuclear power.
  • black pewter — pewter composed of 60 percent tin and 40 percent lead.
  • computer law — a body of law arising out of the special conditions relating to the use of computers, as in computer crime or software copyright.
  • craw-thumper — an ostentatiously pious person
  • deepwaterman — a ship that goes far out to sea and into deep water
  • down payment — an initial amount paid at the time of purchase, in installment buying, time sales, etc.
  • dust wrapper — dust jacket (sense 1)
  • dwarf planet — a spherical celestial body revolving about the sun, similar to a planet but not large enough to gravitationally clear its orbital region of most or all other celestial bodies. Pluto is a dwarf planet.
  • flow pattern — The flow pattern is the way in which fluids move through a reactor.
  • giant powder — dynamite composed of nitroglycerin and kieselguhr.
  • gift-wrapped — A gift-wrapped present is wrapped in pretty paper.
  • great-nephew — a son of one's nephew or niece; grandnephew.
  • makeup water — Makeup water is water which is added to compensate for losses, especially losses caused by evaporation.
  • meadow pipit — a common European songbird, Anthus pratensis, with a pale brown speckled plumage: family Motacillidae (pipits and wagtails)
  • new egyptian — the Egyptian language, c. 1600-700 b.c.
  • newport east — a town in SE Rhode Island.
  • packed tower — A packed tower is a tall distillation vessel which uses packing.
  • paper-weight — a small, heavy object of glass, metal, etc., placed on papers to keep them from scattering.
  • pastures new — If someone leaves for greener pastures, or in British English pastures new, they leave their job, their home, or the situation they are in for something they think will be much better.
  • pave the way — be a pioneer
  • pearly white — white and lustrous as a pearl.
  • phonetic law — a statement of some regular pattern of sound change in a specific language, as Grimm's law or Verner's law.
  • pied wagtail — a British songbird, Motacilla alba yarrellii, with a black throat and back, long black tail, and white underparts and face: family Motacillidae (wagtails and pipits)
  • planet wheel — any of the gears in an epicyclic train surrounding and engaging with the sun gear.
  • plate warmer — a device for warming plates
  • pleased with — satisfied or content with
  • polish wheat — a wheat, Triticum polonicum, grown chiefly in S Europe, N Africa, and Turkestan.
  • poll watcher — a representative of a political party or of an organization running a candidate who is assigned to the polls on an election day to watch for violations of the laws that regulate voting, campaigning, etc.
  • positive law — customary law or law enacted by governmental authority (as distinguished from natural law).
  • post-weaning — to accustom (a child or young animal) to food other than its mother's milk; cause to lose the need to suckle or turn to the mother for food.
  • postcardware — Shareware that borders on freeware, in that the author requests only that satisfied users send a postcard of their home town or something. (This practice, silly as it might seem, serves to remind users that they are otherwise getting something for nothing, and may also be psychologically related to real estate "sales" in which $1 changes hands just to keep the transaction from being a gift.)
  • pot-walloper — (in some boroughs before the Reform Bill of 1832) a man who qualified as a householder, and therefore a voter, by virtue of ownership of his own fireplace at which to boil pots.
  • power assist — a procedure for supplementing or replacing the manual effort needed to operate a device or system, often by hydraulic, electrical, or mechanical means.
  • power factor — (in an electrical circuit) the ratio of the power dissipated to the product of the input volts times amps
  • power-stream — to stream and watch (multiple videos, episodes of a TV show, etc.) in one sitting or over a short period of time.
  • powerboating — a boat propelled by mechanical power.
  • praiseworthy — deserving of praise; laudable: a praiseworthy motive.
  • private view — a preview, esp of an art exhibition, for specially invited guests
  • property law — the branch of law dealing with issues relating to land and houses
  • punxsutawney — a town in central Pennsylvania: Groundhog Day celebration.
  • saw palmetto — a shrublike palmetto, Serenoa repens, of the palm family, native to the southern U.S., having green or blue leafstalks set with spiny teeth.
  • sepak takraw — a game originating in South Asia in which two teams kick a ball back and forth over a net
  • sharp-witted — having or showing mental acuity; intellectually discerning; acute.
  • shop steward — commerce: union rep
  • space writer — a journalist or copywriter paid according to a space rate. Also called space man. Compare stringer (def 6).
  • spring water — water from natural underground source

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