12-letter words containing pe
- escape route — way out: of situation
- escape shaft — a shaft in a mine through which miners can escape if the regular shaft is blocked
- escape valve — a valve that releases air, steam, etc, above a certain pressure; relief valve or safety valve
- escape wheel — moving part of a timepiece
- exasperating — Intensely irritating; infuriating.
- exasperation — A feeling of intense irritation or annoyance.
- exasperative — having an exasperating or irritating nature
- exhaust pipe — vehicle's gas outlet
- exopeptidase — any proteolytic enzyme, such as erepsin, that acts on the terminal bonds in a peptide chain
- expectancies — Plural form of expectancy.
- expectations — Plural form of expectation.
- expectedness — The state or quality of being expected.
- expectorants — Plural form of expectorant.
- expectorated — Simple past tense and past participle of expectorate.
- expediencies — Plural form of expediency.
- expediential — Governed by expediency; seeking advantage.
- expeditation — the act of expeditating a dog
- expenditures — Plural form of expenditure.
- experiencing — Present participle of experience.
- experiential — Involving or based on experience and observation.
- experimental — (of a new invention or product) based on untested ideas or techniques and not yet established or finalized.
- experimented — Simple past tense and past participle of experiment.
- experimenter — A person who experiments.
- fellowshiped — Simple past tense and past participle of fellowship.
- felt-tip pen — a pen that holds quick-drying ink conveyed to a writing surface by means of a felt nib.
- filter paper — porous paper used in filtering.
- financescape — Figuratively, the financial landscape; financial markets.
- fippenny bit — the Spanish half real, the value of which was about six cents.
- first person — the grammatical person used by a speaker in statements referring to himself or herself (first person singular) or to a group including himself or herself (first person plural)
- fisherpeople — Plural form of fisherperson.
- fisherperson — A fisherman or fisherwoman.
- flip-flopped — shod in flip-flops; wearing flip-flops
- flip-flopper — a person who makes a complete change of policy, opinion, etc
- flowerpecker — any of numerous small, arboreal, usually brightly colored oscine birds of the family Dicaeidae, of southeastern Asia and Australia.
- fluoroscoped — Simple past tense and past participle of fluoroscope.
- fluoroscopes — Plural form of fluoroscope.
- forlorn hope — a perilous or desperate enterprise.
- 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.
- funny papers — funny1 (def 7b).
- gaboon viper — a large, venomous snake, Bitis gabonica, of tropical African forests, having large retractable fangs and geometrically patterned scales of yellow, brown, and sometimes purple.
- galactoscope — a lactoscope.
- gallinippers — Plural form of gallinipper.
- galvanoscope — an instrument for detecting the existence of an electric current and determining its direction.
- gamopetalous — having the petals united.
- gapped scale — a scale, such as a pentatonic scale, containing fewer than seven notes
- garnet paper — an abrasive paper coated with pulverized garnet.
- gas pipeline — a system of transmission for gaseous material, esp natural gas
- gas-operated — (of a firearm) using some of the exhaust gases to operate the action.