12-letter words containing u, n, p, e
- enteropneust — a worm-like marine invertebrate
- entrepreneur — A person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so.
- entry coupon — a coupon which you have to fill in with personal details and answers to be eligible to win a prize
- epicureanism — An ancient school of philosophy founded in Athens by Epicurus. The school rejected determinism and advocated hedonism (pleasure as the highest good), but of a restrained kind: mental pleasure was regarded more highly than physical, and the ultimate pleasure was held to be freedom from anxiety and mental pain, esp. that arising from needless fear of death and of the gods.
- equiparation — the act of regarding as the same; the act of comparing
- equipollence — The condition of being equipollent; equality of power, force, signification, or application.
- euphonically — In a euphonic manner.
- euphoniously — In a euphonious manner.
- euphoniumist — Someone who plays the euphonium.
- expenditures — Plural form of expenditure.
- expugnations — Plural form of expugnation.
- face down/up — If someone or something is face down, their face or front points downwards. If they are face up, their face or front points upwards.
- fluphenazine — a potent tranquilizer, C 22 H 26 F 3 N 3 OS, derived from phenothiazine and used in various forms for the management of certain neurological or psychotic disorders and for short-term treatment of acute anxiety.
- 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.
- fringe group — a group that is on the periphery of a larger organization because its views are more extreme than the majority
- funeral plan — A funeral plan is a basic life insurance policy that provides money to pay for the policyholder's funeral expenses when they die.
- funeral pyre — bonfire for cremation
- funny papers — funny1 (def 7b).
- gelande jump — jump made in downhill skiing
- ginger group — the most active group within an organization, as a political party.
- glucoprotein — glycoprotein.
- golden syrup — treacle (def 2b).
- ground plane — (in perspective drawing) the theoretical horizontal plane receding from the picture plane to the horizon, beginning at the level of the base line.
- ground plate — Electricity. a metal plate for making a ground connection to the earth.
- groundkeeper — groundskeeper.
- 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
- guttersnipes — Plural form of guttersnipe.
- hellespontus — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars.
- hepadnavirus — Any member of the virus family Hepadnaviridae, capable of causing liver infections in humans and animals.
- hepatogenous — originating in the liver
- herpetofauna — the reptiles and amphibians that inhabit a given area
- hippocentaur — Centaur.
- holopneustic — having all the spiracles open, as the tracheal systems of most insects.
- housekeeping — the maintenance of a house or domestic establishment.
- housepainter — A professional painter of houses.
- humble plant — sensitive plant (def 1).
- hunger pangs — sudden strong feelings of hunger
- hupokeimenon — (philosophy) That which underlies, or lies beneath; substratum.
- hypersensual — extremely or excessively sensual
- impetiginous — a contagious skin disease, especially of children, usually caused by streptococcal bacteria, marked by a superficial pustular eruption, particularly on the face.
- impoundments — Plural form of impoundment.
- imprest fund — a fund of petty cash.
- impudentness — Quality of being impudent.
- in duplicate — in two copies, times two
- in perpetuum — for ever
- in spadefuls — in an extreme or emphatic way
- in the dumps — a depressed state of mind (usually preceded by in the): to be in the dumps over money problems.
- incapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of incapsulate.
- incapsulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incapsulate.