12-letter words containing t, e, m, p, a
- dermatophyte — any parasitic fungus that affects the skin
- desmoplastic — (pathology) That produces adhesions.
- die stamping — the production of words or decoration on a surface by using a steel die so that the printed images stand in relief
- diet pyramid — food pyramid (def 2).
- displacement — the act of displacing.
- distemperate — (obsolete) immoderate.
- down payment — an initial amount paid at the time of purchase, in installment buying, time sales, etc.
- drapetomania — (dated) an overwhelming urge to run away (from home, a bad situation, responsibility, etc.).
- egyptian mau — a breed of medium-sized cat with a spotted coat of medium length
- emancipating — Present participle of emancipate.
- emancipation — The fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberation.
- emancipators — Plural form of emancipator.
- emancipatory — Of or pertaining to emancipation or to an emancipator.
- emancipatrix — A woman, girl, or any other entity treated as female who emancipates; a female emancipator.
- empassionate — intensely affected
- empathically — In an empathic manner.
- emphatically — In a forceful way.
- empire state — state of New York
- emplacements — Plural form of emplacement.
- empty-handed — carrying nothing
- empty-headed — If you describe someone as empty-headed, you mean that they are not very intelligent and often do silly things.
- empyreumatic — relating to empyreuma
- enamel paint — a type of paint that has a very hard and shiny finish once it is dry
- enantiomorph — Each of two crystalline or other geometric forms that are mirror images of each other.
- encompasseth — Archaic third-person singular form of encompass.
- enophthalmos — The posterior displacement of the eyeball within the orbit due to changes in the volume of the orbit (bone) relative to its contents (the eyeball and orbital fat), or loss of function of the orbitalis muscle.
- entomophobia — Abnormal fear of insects or similar arthropods.
- ephemerality — (uncountable) The state or condition of being ephemeral; transience.
- epigrammatic — Of the nature or in the style of an epigram; concise, clever, and amusing.
- epirrhematic — relating to epirrhema
- epithalamion — A song or poem celebrating a marriage.
- epithalamium — A song or poem celebrating a marriage.
- epitheliomas — Plural form of epithelioma.
- ergastoplasm — endoplasm that is associated with protein synthesis
- esophagotomy — (surgery) The operation of making an incision into the esophagus for the purpose of removing an obstruction.
- exophthalmia — (medicine) The protrusion of the eyeball so that the eyelids will not cover it, in consequence of disease.
- exophthalmic — Having or characterized by protruding eyes.
- exophthalmos — Abnormal protrusion of the eyeball or eyeballs.
- exophthalmus — Alt form exophthalmos.
- expatriatism — The condition of being an expatriate, especially a deliberate one.
- experimental — (of a new invention or product) based on untested ideas or techniques and not yet established or finalized.
- extemporally — In an extemporal manner.
- extracampine — (psychiatry, of hallucination) Beyond the possible sensory field.
- extropianism — Belief in, or support for, the theory of extropy.
- feather palm — any palm having large pinnate or bipinnate leaves, as the date palm or royal palm.
- fermat prime — (mathematics) A prime number of the form 2^2^n + 1. Any prime number of the form 2^n+1 must be a Fermat prime. Fermat conjectured in a letter to someone or other that all numbers 2^2^n+1 are prime, having noticed that this is true for n=0,1,2,3,4. No further Fermat primes are known; several have been factorised, and several more have been proved composite without finding explicit factorisations.
- fissipalmate — (of birds) having the toes lobed or partially webbed.
- footplateman — a member of a locomotive crew who stands on the footplate to operate the controls
- fore-topmast — the spar or section of a pole mast serving as the topmast of a foremast on a ship.
- foretopmasts — Plural form of foretopmast.