12-letter words containing t, e, r, a, p, n
- telegraphone — an early magnetic sound-recording device for use with wire, tape, or disks.
- temporaneous — lasting a short while
- test pattern — a geometric design broadcast to receivers for testing the quality of transmission, often identifying the transmitting station and channel.
- tetrapolitan — of or related to a tetrapolis
- the-persians — a tragedy (472 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
- theanthropic — of or relating to both God or a god and human beings; both divine and human.
- theatrophone — a late 19th century service that allowed subscribers to listen to concerts or plays through the telephone
- top sergeant — a first sergeant.
- tracing tape — (on a building site) one of several lines stretched between batter boards to outline the foundations.
- tradesperson — a skilled worker
- tragelaphine — of or relating to a tragelaph
- trainspotter — A trainspotter is someone who is very interested in trains and spends time going to stations and recording the numbers of the trains that they see.
- trans person — a person who is transgender or transsexual.
- transparence — Also, transparence. the quality or state of being transparent.
- transparency — Also, transparence. the quality or state of being transparent.
- transpirable — to occur; happen; take place.
- transplantee — a person who is undergoing or has undergone an organ transplant.
- transponible — capable of being transposed.
- transpontine — across or beyond a bridge.
- transportive — to carry, move, or convey from one place to another.
- transumptive — of or relating to transumption
- trephination — a small circular saw with a center pin mounted on a strong hollow metal shaft to which is attached a transverse handle: used in surgery to remove circular disks of bone from the skull.
- trepidations — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- trichopteran — trichopterous.
- trying plane — a plane with a long body for planing the edges of long boards
- trypaflavine — acriflavine hydrochloride.
- typing paper — paper for typing on
- uncapturable — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- unexpurgated — to amend by removing words, passages, etc., deemed offensive or objectionable: Most children read an expurgated version of Grimms' fairy tales.
- unimportance — a lack of importance
- united party — (formerly, in South Africa) the major opposition party, founded by General Smuts in 1934: the official Opposition in Parliament from 1948, the party was disbanded in 1977
- unpatronized — having few or no patrons
- unpenetrable — capable of being penetrated.
- unperforated — pierced with a hole or holes: Punch out along the perforated line.
- unpleasantry — an unpleasant word, action, comment, etc.: comments filled with unpleasantries.
- unpredicated — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
- unprelatical — not befitting a prelate
- unprofitable — being without profit; not showing or turning a profit: a series of unprofitable ventures.
- unrepeatable — to say or utter again (something already said): to repeat a word for emphasis.
- unrepentance — the state of being unrepentant, impenitent, or unremorseful
- unreportable — not able to be reported, relayed, or spoken of
- untrespassed — Law. an unlawful act causing injury to the person, property, or rights of another, committed with force or violence, actual or implied. a wrongful entry upon the lands of another. the action to recover damages for such an injury.
- van der post — Sir Laurens (Jan). 1906–96, South African writer and traveller. His works include the travel books Venture to the Interior (1952), The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958), and Testament to the Bushmen (1984) and the novels The Hunter and the Whale (1967) and The Admiral's Baby (1996)
- vanity press — a printing house that specializes in publishing books for which the authors pay all or most of the costs.
- veneer patch — a patch made in one of the veneers of a sheet of plywood before layup.
- vespertilian — of, relating to, or resembling a bat
- vituperation — verbal abuse or castigation; violent denunciation or condemnation.
- voting paper — a ballot.
- warp-knitted — designating a fabric made by warp knitting.
- 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.