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12-letter words containing a, d, i, p

  • meadow pipit — a common European songbird, Anthus pratensis, with a pale brown speckled plumage: family Motacillidae (pipits and wagtails)
  • meanspirited — petty; small-minded; ungenerous: a meanspirited man, unwilling to forgive.
  • media person — a person who works in the mass media
  • media player — Digital Technology. a portable electronic device or a software program that plays and stores digital audio or video files in various formats.
  • median plane — a vertical plane that divides an organism into symmetrical halves.
  • median point — centroid (def 2).
  • median strip — a paved, planted, or landscaped strip in the center of a highway that separates lanes of traffic going in opposite directions.
  • mediatorship — the position of a mediator
  • mesoappendix — the mesentery of the vermiform appendix.
  • middle plane — middle distance (def 1).
  • mimeographed — Simple past tense and past participle of mimeograph.
  • misapprehend — to misunderstand.
  • mispleadings — Plural form of mispleading.
  • monodelphian — any placental mammal that is a member of the group Monodelphia
  • multiplicand — a number to be multiplied by another.
  • new paradigm — a set of beliefs that replaces another set which is believed no longer to apply
  • nip and tuck — to squeeze or compress tightly between two surfaces or points; pinch; bite.
  • non-adoption — the act of adopting: the adoption of a new amendment.
  • nontyphoidal — of, relating to, or resembling typhoid.
  • nucleocapsid — the nucleic acid core and surrounding capsid of a virus; the basic viral structure.
  • octapeptides — Plural form of octapeptide.
  • odontophobia — an unnatural dread or terror of teeth
  • oilseed rape — Oilseed rape is a plant with yellow flowers which is grown as a crop. Its seeds are crushed to make cooking oil.
  • old prussian — a Baltic language extinct since the 17th century. Abbreviation: OPruss.
  • olla podrida — a spicy Spanish stew of sausage and other meat, chickpeas, and often tomatoes and other vegetables.
  • on shipboard — on board a ship
  • onion-shaped — bulb-shaped; shaped like an onion
  • opera window — a narrow, fixed window on each side of the rear passenger compartment of an automobile.
  • opium addict — someone who is addicted to the dried juice extracted from the unripe seed capsules of the opium poppy
  • optical diff — vdiff
  • optical disc — Also, optical disc. Also called laser disk. a grooveless disk on which digital data, as text, music, or pictures, is stored as tiny pits in the surface and is read or replayed by a laser beam scanning the surface.
  • optical disk — Also, optical disc. Also called laser disk. a grooveless disk on which digital data, as text, music, or pictures, is stored as tiny pits in the surface and is read or replayed by a laser beam scanning the surface.
  • ordered pair — Mathematics. two quantities written in such a way as to indicate that one quantity precedes or is to be considered before the other, as (3, 4) indicates the Cartesian coordinates of a point in the plane.
  • orthopaedics — (used with a singular verb) the medical specialty concerned with correction of deformities or functional impairments of the skeletal system, especially the extremities and the spine, and associated structures, as muscles and ligaments.
  • orthopaedist — Alternative spelling of orthopedist.
  • orthopedical — (American spelling) Alternative form of orthopaedical.
  • outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
  • packet radio — (communications, radio)   The use of packet switched communications protocols in large networks (i.e not wireless LANs or Bluetooth) having wireless links to terminals at least. Packet radio is split into amateur packet radio (AX25) and General Packet Radio Service (GRPS).
  • paedobaptism — the baptism of infants
  • paedobaptist — a person who baptizes infants
  • paedodontics — the branch of dentistry that focuses on the care of children's teeth
  • paedogenesis — sexual reproduction in an animal that retains its larval features
  • paedomorphic — showing signs of paedomorphism
  • paedophiliac — an adult who is sexually attracted to young children.
  • paint bridge — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
  • painted lady — a butterfly, Vanessa cardui, having brownish-black and orange wings and hind wings each with four eyespots, the larvae of which feed on thistles.
  • palais glide — a dance with high kicks and gliding steps in which performers link arms in a row
  • pale-skinned — having pale skin
  • paleo-indian — of, relating to, or characteristic of a New World cultural stage, c22,000–6000 b.c., distinguished by fluted-point tools and cooperative hunting methods.
  • palindromist — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
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