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12-letter words containing t, e, p, i

  • fortepianist — the player of a fortepiano
  • fortified pa — a Māori hilltop dwelling with trenches and palisades for defensive occupation
  • fosphenytoin — a prodrug that produces phenytoin and is taken to prevent or treat seizures.
  • fountain pen — a pen with a refillable reservoir that provides a continuous supply of usually fluid ink to its point.
  • four-striper — a captain in the U.S. Navy.
  • freeing port — an opening in the bottom of a bulwark, for rapid drainage of a weather deck in heavy seas; scupper.
  • fried potato — Fried potatoes are pieces of potato cooked in oil or fat.
  • frontispiece — an illustrated leaf preceding the title page of a book.
  • fruit-picker — a person or a tool that picks fruit from trees
  • gametophytic — (botany) Of or pertaining to a gametophyte plant.
  • geophysicist — the branch of geology that deals with the physics of the earth and its atmosphere, including oceanography, seismology, volcanology, and geomagnetism.
  • geopolitical — the study or the application of the influence of political and economic geography on the politics, national power, foreign policy, etc., of a state.
  • geopotential — the difference between the potential energy of a mass at a given altitude and the potential energy of an identical mass at sea level, equivalent to the energy required to move the mass from sea level to the given altitude.
  • gerontophile — someone who is sexually attracted to old people
  • get to grips — to deal with (a problem or subject)
  • giant planet — any of the planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, characterized by large mass, low density, and an extensive atmosphere
  • giant powder — dynamite composed of nitroglycerin and kieselguhr.
  • gift receipt — A gift receipt shows proof of purchase but leaves out the amount spent. It can be used to return goods given as a gift.
  • gift-wrapped — A gift-wrapped present is wrapped in pretty paper.
  • glacis plate — the frontal plate armour on a tank
  • glucoprotein — glycoprotein.
  • glycopeptide — any of a group of complex proteins, as mucin, containing a carbohydrate combined with a simple protein.
  • glycoprotein — any of a group of complex proteins, as mucin, containing a carbohydrate combined with a simple protein.
  • go to pieces — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
  • graduateship — the time or condition of being a graduate
  • granite peak — the highest elevation in Montana, in the S part. 12,799 feet (3901 meters).
  • grease paint — an oily mixture of melted tallow or grease and a pigment, used by actors, clowns, etc., for making up their faces.
  • great plains — a semiarid region E of the Rocky Mountains, in the U.S. and Canada.
  • great primer — an 18-point type of a size larger than Columbian, formerly used for Bibles.
  • great spirit — the chief deity in the religion of many North American Indian tribes.
  • guttersnipes — Plural form of guttersnipe.
  • haemoprotein — Alternative spelling of hemoprotein.
  • hand-painted — painted by a person rather than a machine
  • hand-printed — (of numbers, letters, or designs) printed, or put on a surface, by hand rather than by machine
  • hanging step — a step projecting from a wall with no real or apparent support at its outer end.
  • have pity on — to have sympathy or show mercy for
  • helicoptered — Simple past tense and past participle of helicopter.
  • heliotherapy — treatment of disease by means of sunlight.
  • heliotropism — heliotropic tendency or growth.
  • help on with — If you help someone on with an item of clothing, you help them put it on.
  • hematophobia — Fear of bleeding or the sight of blood.
  • hemimorphite — a hydrous zinc silicate mineral, Zn 4 (OH) 2 Si 2 O 7 ⋅H 2 O, occurring in clear, colorless orthorhombic crystals; calamine: an ore of zinc.
  • hemiparasite — A plant that obtains or may obtain part of its food by parasitism, e.g., mistletoe, which also photosynthesizes.
  • hemiplankton — plankton that spend part of their life cycle in a vegetative state on the sea bottom, riverbed, etc. (opposed to holoplankton).
  • hepaticology — the scientific study of bryophyte plants known as hepatics or liverworts
  • hepatization — the transformation of tissue into a liver-like substance, esp of the lungs in pneumonia
  • hepatotoxins — Plural form of hepatotoxin.
  • hepatoxicity — Toxicity that affects the liver.
  • hephthemimer — a verse with a group of seven metrical half feet
  • hernioplasty — an operation for the repair of a hernia.
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