12-letter words containing u, n, a, p, e, t
- platanaceous — relating to the family Platanaceae
- plunket baby — a baby brought up in infancy under the dietary recommendations of the Plunket Society
- pneumaticity — the condition of being pneumatic
- pneumatocyst — the cavity of a pneumatophore.
- pneumatology — Theology. doctrine concerning the Holy Spirit. the belief in intermediary spirits between humans and God.
- pneumothorax — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
- polynucleate — having many nuclei.
- polyurethane — a thermoplastic polymer containing the group NHCOO: used for padding and insulation in furniture, clothing, and packaging, and in the manufacture of resins for adhesives, elastomers, and fillers.
- post-nuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
- pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
- premenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
- proconsulate — the office or term of office of a proconsul.
- protuberance — the condition, state, or quality of being protuberant.
- protuberancy — protuberance.
- prudentially — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or resulting from prudence.
- pterosaurian — a pterosaur
- puerto rican — an island in the central West Indies: a commonwealth associated with the U.S. 3435 sq. mi. (8895 sq. km). Capital: San Juan. Abbreviation: P.R., PR.
- punched tape — Computers. paper tape.
- punta arenas — a seaport in S Chile, on the Strait of Magellan: the southernmost city in Chile. Formerly Magallanes.
- punxsutawney — a town in central Pennsylvania: Groundhog Day celebration.
- purlin plate — (in a curb roof) a purlin at the top of a lower slope supporting the ends of the upper rafters at the curb.
- put years on — to make (someone) feel or look much older
- put-and-take — any of various games of chance played with a teetotum or other special type of top, in which each player puts in an equal stake before starting to spin the top.
- putrefaction — the act or process of putrefying; the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria and fungi that results in obnoxiously odorous products; rotting.
- quantum leap — Physics. an abrupt transition of a system described by quantum mechanics from one of its discrete states to another, as the fall of an electron in an atom to an orbit of lower energy.
- quindecaplet — a group of 15
- reassumption — the act or process of reassuming something
- recuperating — to recover from sickness or exhaustion; regain health or strength.
- recuperation — to recover from sickness or exhaustion; regain health or strength.
- reoccupation — a person's usual or principal work or business, especially as a means of earning a living; vocation: Her occupation was dentistry.
- repopulation — the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area.
- reputational — the estimation in which a person or thing is held, especially by the community or the public generally; repute: a man of good reputation.
- resupination — a resupinate condition.
- rubber plant — a plant, Ficus elastica, of the mulberry family, having oblong, shining, leathery leaves, growing native as a tall tree in India, the Malay Archipelago, etc., used as a source of rubber and cultivated in Europe and America as an ornamental house plant.
- serpentarium — a place where snakes are housed, especially for exhibition.
- sharp tongue — If you say that someone has a sharp tongue, you are critical of the fact that they say things which are unkind though often clever.
- splatterpunk — a form of fiction featuring extremely graphic violence.
- stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
- stenophagous — (of an animal) feeding on a limited variety of foods (opposed to euryphagous).
- student lamp — a table lamp whose light source can be adjusted in height.
- stupefacient — stupefying; producing stupor.
- stupefaction — the state of being stupefied; stupor.
- superannuate — to allow to retire from service or office on a pension because of age or infirmity.
- supercabinet — a specially-formed cabinet, a select or powerful group of political ministers (cabinet)
- superfrontal — a piece of cloth placed over an altar and frontal and hanging down a few inches over the front of the altar
- superheating — Superheating of steam is raising its temperature to well above boiling point.
- supernatural — of, relating to, or being above or beyond what is natural; unexplainable by natural law or phenomena; abnormal.
- superstation — an independent television station whose signal is transmitted by satellite to subscribers on a cable system.
- supplemental — supplementary.
- telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.