12-letter words containing t, o, p, e
- foundry type — type cast in individual characters for setting by hand.
- 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.
- fuel poverty — the state of being unable to afford to heat one's home adequately
- future-proof — (of a system, computer, program, etc) guaranteed not to be superseded by future versions, developments, etc
- galactophore — a galactophorous duct.
- galactoscope — a lactoscope.
- gametophores — Plural form of gametophore.
- gametophytes — Plural form of gametophyte.
- gametophytic — (botany) Of or pertaining to a gametophyte plant.
- gamopetalous — having the petals united.
- gas-operated — (of a firearm) using some of the exhaust gases to operate the action.
- gastroscopes — Plural form of gastroscope.
- gentlepeople — a person of good family and position; gentleman or lady.
- gentleperson — a person of good family and position; gentleman or lady.
- 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
- gerontophobe — a person who fears or hates old people or the idea of growing old
- get to grips — to deal with (a problem or subject)
- get to sleep — If you cannot get to sleep, you are unable to sleep.
- giant powder — dynamite composed of nitroglycerin and kieselguhr.
- glove puppet — a small figure of a person or animal that fits over and is manipulated by the hand
- 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.
- god's plenty — an abundant or overabundant quantity.
- gold therapy — administration of gold salts as a treatment for disease, especially rheumatoid arthritis.
- gopher state — Minnesota (used as a nickname).
- gospel truth — an unquestionably true statement, fact, etc.
- graph theory — the branch of mathematics dealing with linear graphs.
- grapple shot — a grapnellike projectile fired from a gun and used as a hold for the end of a line in rescue operations or in kedging.
- ground plate — Electricity. a metal plate for making a ground connection to the earth.
- group of ten — the ten nations who met in Paris in 1961 to arrange the special drawing rights of the IMF: Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, UK, US, and West Germany
- group theory — the branch of mathematics that deals with the structure of mathematical groups and mappings between them.
- haemoprotein — Alternative spelling of hemoprotein.
- have pity on — to have sympathy or show mercy for
- heartstopper — something so frightening or emotionally gripping as to make one's heart seem to stop beating: We didn't crash, but it was a heartstopper.
- helicoptered — Simple past tense and past participle of helicopter.
- heliotherapy — treatment of disease by means of sunlight.
- heliotropism — heliotropic tendency or growth.
- hellespontus — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars.
- hello packet — (networking, communications) An OSPF packet sent periodically on each network interface, real or virtual, to discover and test connections to neighbours. Hello packets are multicast on physical networks capable of multicasting or broadcasting to enable dynamic router discovery. They include the parameters that routers connected to a common network must agree on. Hello packets increase network resilience by, e.g., allowing a router to establish a secondary connection when a primary connection fails.
- help on with — If you help someone on with an item of clothing, you help them put it on.
- hematocolpos — (medicine) A medical condition in which the vagina fills with menstrual blood, often caused by the combination of menstruation with an imperforate hymen.