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

  • vacation pay — salary paid during holidays
  • vanity plate — a vehicle license plate bearing a combination of letters or numbers requested by the licensee, as a name or occupation.
  • vanity press — a printing house that specializes in publishing books for which the authors pay all or most of the costs.
  • vaporization — the act of vaporizing.
  • vapour trail — A vapour trail is a white line of water vapour left in the sky by an aeroplane, a rocket, or a missile.
  • velociraptor — a small carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Velociraptor , from the late Cretaceous period, capable of leaping, and growing to a length of about 6 feet (2 meters), having feathers, a flat snout, short forelimbs with large handlike talons, and a large sickle-shaped claw on each foot.
  • vespertilian — of, relating to, or resembling a bat
  • vice-captain — a person who deputizes for a captain and serves in his or her place during his or her absence or indisposition
  • visuospatial — pertaining to perception of the spatial relationships among objects within the field of vision.
  • vitamin pill — a tablet containing a vitamin or vitamins
  • vituperation — verbal abuse or castigation; violent denunciation or condemnation.
  • vituperative — characterized by or of the nature of vituperation: vituperative remarks.
  • vituperatory — abusive or blaming
  • voltaic pile — an early battery cell, consisting of several metal disks, each made of one of two dissimilar metals, arranged in an alternating series, and separated by pads moistened with an electrolyte.
  • voting paper — a ballot.
  • warp-knitted — designating a fabric made by warp knitting.
  • water pistol — a toy gun that shoots a stream of liquid.
  • water spider — a Eurasian spider, Argyroneta aquatica, that spins a web in the form of an air-filled chamber in which it lives submerged in streams and ponds
  • water sprite — a sprite or spirit inhabiting the water, as an undine.
  • 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.
  • watermanship — the skill, duties, business, etc., of a waterman.
  • weather ship — a ship equipped for meteorological observation.
  • weatherstrip — A strip of rubber, metal, or other material used to seal the edges of a door or window against the cold.
  • west prussia — a former province of Prussia: since 1945 part of Poland.
  • whaling port — a home port for whaling vessels.
  • white plague — tuberculosis, especially pulmonary tuberculosis.
  • white plains — a city in SE New York, near New York City: battle 1776.
  • white poplar — Also called abele. an Old World poplar, Populus alba, widely cultivated in the U.S., having the underside of the leaves covered with a dense silvery-white down.
  • white potato — potato (def 1).
  • white sapote — a tropical American tree, Casimiroa edulis, of the rue family, having greenish, inconspicuous flowers and tomatolike fleshy fruit that is yellow on the inside and gray or yellowish-green on the outside.
  • wild apricot — apricot (def 4).
  • williamsport — a city in central Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River.
  • xanthopterin — a yellow pigment, C6H5N5O2, found in some butterfly or moth wings or in the urine of mammals
  • yachting cap — a cap with a round flat top and a visor
  • zinc-plating — the process of covering something with a layer or coating of zinc
  • zip fastener — a zipper.
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