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

  • parascending — parasailing
  • parasiticide — an agent or preparation that destroys parasites.
  • participated — to take or have a part or share, as with others; partake; share (usually followed by in): to participate in profits; to participate in a play.
  • particolored — having different colors in different areas or patches; variegated: a parti-colored dress.
  • pas d'action — a dramatic, pantomimic dance sequence serving to advance the plot.
  • pascal-linda — Ian Flockhart, U Edinburgh, 1991. Under development.
  • payment card — A payment card is a plastic card which you use like a credit card, but which takes the money directly from your bank account.
  • peace accord — an official agreement to come to peace or end conflict
  • peach brandy — brandy distilled from the fermented juice of peaches.
  • peccadilloes — a very minor or slight sin or offense; a trifling fault.
  • pedantically — ostentatious in one's learning.
  • pedantocracy — rule by pedants; a system of government by pedants
  • pediatrician — a physician who specializes in pediatrics.
  • pedicellaria — one of the minute pincerlike structures common to starfish and sea urchins, used for cleaning and to capture tiny prey.
  • pediculation — the act or process of growing a stalk or pedicle
  • pedunculated — having a peduncle.
  • pencil cedar — the red cedar, Juniperus virginiana, or its wood.
  • penny arcade — an amusement hall or area that contains coin-operated entertainment devices, originally operated for a penny a play.
  • pentacrinoid — a larval crinoid resembling members of the genus Pentacrinus
  • pentadecagon — a polygon having 15 angles and 15 sides.
  • pericarditis — inflammation of the pericardium.
  • periodic law — the law that the properties of the elements are periodic functions of their atomic numbers.
  • periodically — recurring at intervals of time: periodic revivals of an interest in handicrafts.
  • phosphatidic — of or relating to a phosphatide
  • photocathode — a cathode, typically of a cesium or sodium compound, having the property of emitting electrons when activated by light or other radiation.
  • photodynamic — the science dealing with light and its effects on living organisms.
  • pick and mix — a selection of sweets from which the customer can choose, paid for by weight
  • picture card — face card
  • pimelic acid — a crystalline compound, C 7 H 1 2 O 4 , soluble in alcohol and ether: used in polymers and as a plasticizer.
  • pindaric ode — an ode consisting of several units, each of which is composed of a strophe and an antistrophe of identical form followed by a contrasting epode.
  • ping command — ping
  • piperic acid — a saturated organic acid (C12H10O4), derived from plants in the pepper family, that forms yellow crystals and can be oxidized to produce piperonal
  • place-holder — Mathematics, Logic. a symbol in an expression that may be replaced by the name of any element of the set.
  • plaid screen — [XEROX PARC] A "special effect" that occurs when certain kinds of memory smashes overwrite the control blocks or image memory of a bit-mapped display. The term "salt and pepper" may refer to a different pattern of similar origin. Though the term as coined at PARC refers to the result of an error, some of the X demos induce plaid-screen effects deliberately as a display hack.
  • plattdeutsch — the Low German vernacular dialects spoken in northern Germany.
  • playing card — one of the conventional set of 52 cards in four suits, as diamonds, hearts, spades, and clubs, used in playing various games of chance and skill.
  • pointed arch — an arch having a pointed apex.
  • poland china — one of an American breed of black hogs having white markings.
  • pole dancing — Pole dancing is a type of entertainment in a bar or club in which a woman who is wearing very few clothes dances around a pole in a sexy way.
  • ponce around — If you say that someone is poncing around or poncing about, you mean that they are not doing something properly, quickly, or seriously.
  • postaccident — occurring after an accident
  • postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
  • postcardware — Shareware that borders on freeware, in that the author requests only that satisfied users send a postcard of their home town or something. (This practice, silly as it might seem, serves to remind users that they are otherwise getting something for nothing, and may also be psychologically related to real estate "sales" in which $1 changes hands just to keep the transaction from being a gift.)
  • postdoctoral — of or relating to study or professional work undertaken after the receipt of a doctorate: postdoctoral courses.
  • pre-packaged — Pre-packaged foods have been prepared in advance and put in plastic or cardboard containers to be sold.
  • preannounced — to make known publicly or officially; proclaim; give notice of: to announce a special sale.
  • precedential — of the nature of or constituting a precedent.
  • precipitated — to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis.
  • predischarge — of or pertaining to the period prior to discharge, esp prior to discharge from hospital or from employment
  • predominance — the state, condition, or quality of being predominant: the predominance of the rich over the poor.
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