12-letter words containing n, t, y, p
- countertypes — Plural form of countertype.
- country park — an area of countryside, usually not less than 10 hectares, set aside for public recreation: often funded by a Countryside Commission grant
- cranioplasty — Surgical repair of a defect or deformity in the skull.
- cryoplankton — minute organisms, esp algae, living in ice, snow, or icy water
- cryptanalyst — the procedures, processes, methods, etc., used to translate or interpret secret writings, as codes and ciphers, for which the key is unknown.
- cryptanalyze — to study (a cryptogram) for the purpose of discovering the clear meaning; break (a code, cipher, etc.).
- cryptogamian — of or relating to cryptogams
- cryptomnesia — the reappearance of a suppressed or forgotten memory which is mistaken for a new experience
- cryptomnesic — of, relating to, or characterized by cryptomnesia
- cryptomonads — Plural form of cryptomonad.
- cryptonymous — having a code name or secret name
- cycloheptane — (organic compound) An alicyclic hydrocarbon, C7H14; a volatile inflammable liquid.
- cyclopentane — a colourless insoluble cycloalkane found in petroleum and used mainly as a solvent. Formula: C5H10
- cyprinodonts — Plural form of cyprinodont.
- day-tripping — to travel as a day-tripper.
- dehypnotized — Simple past tense and past participle of dehypnotize.
- despondently — feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection, discouragement, or gloom: despondent about failing health.
- dictyopteran — any insect of the order Dictyoptera, which comprises the cockroaches and mantises
- dinner party — social gathering over evening meal
- dispensatory — a book in which the composition, preparation, and uses of medicinal substances are described; a nonofficial pharmacopoeia.
- down payment — an initial amount paid at the time of purchase, in installment buying, time sales, etc.
- drinks party — a cocktail party
- dystopianism — a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
- egyptian mau — a breed of medium-sized cat with a spotted coat of medium length
- emancipatory — Of or pertaining to emancipation or to an emancipator.
- empty-handed — carrying nothing
- empty-nester — a married person whose children have grown up and left home
- enantiopathy — the treatment of disease by opposites; allopathy
- enantiotropy — the possibility for stable polymorphs to exist in different states on either side of a transition-point temperature
- enhypostasia — personalities existing in union (Jesus Christ and God the Son)
- enhypostatic — relating to enhypostasia
- enthesopathy — (pathology) A disorder of entheses (bone attachments).
- entropically — By means of or in relation to entropy.
- entry coupon — a coupon which you have to fill in with personal details and answers to be eligible to win a prize
- entry permit — customs
- erythropenia — A decrease in the number of erythrocytes, associated with anemia.
- fippenny bit — the Spanish half real, the value of which was about six cents.
- firing party — a military detachment detailed to fire a salute at a funeral
- fosphenytoin — a prodrug that produces phenytoin and is taken to prevent or treat seizures.
- foundry type — type cast in individual characters for setting by hand.
- garden party — a party given out of doors in a garden or yard.
- gene therapy — the application of genetic engineering to the transplantation of genes into human cells in order to cure a disease caused by a genetic defect, as a missing enzyme.
- get anyplace — to have any success
- glycoprotein — any of a group of complex proteins, as mucin, containing a carbohydrate combined with a simple protein.
- god's plenty — an abundant or overabundant quantity.
- gray panther — a member of an organized group of elderly people seeking to secure or protect their rights by collective action.
- grey panther — a member of the generation of affluent older consumers, who regard themselves as young, active, and sociable
- gymnosophist — one of a group of Jainist philosophers, existing from ancient times to c1000, characterized by refusal to wear clothes and the abandonment of caste marks; a member of the Digambara sect.
- have pity on — to have sympathy or show mercy for
- hernioplasty — an operation for the repair of a hernia.