12-letter words containing t, e, p, g
- technography — the description and study of the arts and sciences in their geographical and ethnic distribution and historical development.
- telautograph — a telegraphic device for reproducing handwriting, drawings, etc, the movements of an electromagnetically controlled pen at one end being transmitted along a line to a similar pen at the receiving end
- telegraphese — a style of writing or speaking distinguished by the omissions, abbreviations, and combinations that are characteristic of telegrams, as in “ expect arrive six evening. ”.
- telegraphone — an early magnetic sound-recording device for use with wire, tape, or disks.
- teleshopping — electronic shopping via videotex or other interactive information service.
- tempus fugit — time flies
- the hoppings — an annual fair in Newcastle
- the pentagon — a five-sided building in Arlington, Va., in which the main offices of the U.S. Department of Defense are located; hence, the U.S. military establishment
- thermography — a technique for imitating an embossed appearance, as on business cards, stationery, or the like, by dusting printed areas with a powder that adheres only to the wet ink, and fusing the ink and powder to the paper by heat.
- tight-lipped — speaking very little; taciturn; close-mouthed.
- time-keeping — a person or thing that keeps time.
- top dressing — tennis court
- top sergeant — a first sergeant.
- tracing tape — (on a building site) one of several lines stretched between batter boards to outline the foundations.
- tragelaphine — of or relating to a tragelaph
- triple bogey — a score of three strokes over par on a hole.
- triple fugue — a fugue with a subject and two countersubjects developed simultaneously.
- triple-digit — being in the hundreds or in a figure or amount from 100 through 999: triple-digit budget figures.
- trying plane — a plane with a long body for planing the edges of long boards
- typing error — an error made while using a keyboard to write something
- typing paper — paper for typing on
- typing speed — the number of words someone can accurately type in one minute
- unapologetic — containing an apology or excuse for a fault, failure, insult, injury, etc.: An apologetic letter to his creditors explained the delay.
- unappetizing — appealing to or stimulating the appetite; savory.
- unexpurgated — to amend by removing words, passages, etc., deemed offensive or objectionable: Most children read an expurgated version of Grimms' fairy tales.
- unpretending — unpretentious; genuine
- unprotesting — an expression or declaration of objection, disapproval, or dissent, often in opposition to something a person is powerless to prevent or avoid: a protest against increased taxation.
- unsuspecting — to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof: to suspect a person of murder.
- up a gumtree — in a very awkward position; in difficulties
- vegetal pole — the relatively inactive part of an ovum opposite the animal pole, containing much yolk and little cytoplasm.
- voting paper — a ballot.
- watering pot — a container for water, typically of metal or plastic and having a spout with a perforated nozzle, for watering or sprinkling plants, flowers, etc.
- wet puddling — puddling on a hearth rich in iron oxide so that carbon monoxide is generated, giving the iron the appearance of boiling.
- white plague — tuberculosis, especially pulmonary tuberculosis.