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12-letter words containing t, r, o, p

  • unreportable — not able to be reported, relayed, or spoken of
  • unsupporting — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
  • unsupportive — giving support.
  • urethroscope — an apparatus for observing the urethra.
  • urethroscopy — observation of the urethra by a urethroscope.
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • vector space — an additive group in which addition is commutative and with which is associated a field of scalars, as the field of real numbers, such that the product of a scalar and an element of the group or a vector is defined, the product of two scalars times a vector is associative, one times a vector is the vector, and two distributive laws hold.
  • velcro strip — a strip or roll of Velcro, able to be cut to the required length
  • 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.
  • ventripotent — having a large belly
  • victory ship — a fast, turbine-powered cargo ship of World War II, having a capacity of about 11,000 dead-weight tons.
  • virtuosoship — the condition of being a virtuoso; the activities of a virtuoso
  • vituperation — verbal abuse or castigation; violent denunciation or condemnation.
  • vituperatory — abusive or blaming
  • vortex depth — The vortex depth is the depth below an impeller at which its influence can still be seen in a mixed fluid.
  • voting paper — a ballot.
  • walk-on part — acting role with no spoken lines
  • water pistol — a toy gun that shoots a stream of liquid.
  • water pocket — a cavity at the foot of a cliff formed by the falling action of an intermittent stream.
  • water sports — a sport played or practiced on or in water, as swimming, water polo, or surfing.
  • water sprout — a nonflowering shoot arising from a branch or axil of a tree or shrub.
  • water vapour — steam
  • 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.
  • waterproofed — Having been made waterproof.
  • waterproofer — One who, or that which, makes waterproof.
  • weatherproof — able to withstand exposure to all kinds of weather.
  • west pointer — a graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point
  • whaling port — a home port for whaling vessels.
  • 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.
  • wild apricot — apricot (def 4).
  • williamsport — a city in central Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River.
  • with-profits — A with-profits savings scheme or financial plan is one in which the people who put money into the scheme receive extra money each year based on how successful the investment has been.
  • woodburytype — a process using gelatine film exposed to the negative, which is then pressed into lead and processed, or a print of this type
  • wool stapler — a dealer in wool.
  • word picture — a description in words, especially one that is unusually vivid: She drew a word picture of a South Pacific sunset.
  • word-perfect — correct in every detail
  • world spirit — (often initial capital letters) God.
  • worlds apart — in different environments
  • wrap account — a personally managed investment account where charges are levied on the basis of the account's total assets.
  • xanthopterin — a yellow pigment, C6H5N5O2, found in some butterfly or moth wings or in the urine of mammals
  • yachtsperson — A yachtsman or yachtswoman.
  • zephyr cloth — a lightweight worsted cloth.
  • zone therapy — a type of massage which works on the theory that specific parts of the foot or palm of the hand are associated with different parts of the body, and that massaging the feet or hands will give the patient relief from disorders in the related part of the body
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