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

  • clapperboard — A clapperboard consists of two pieces of wood that are connected by a hinge and hit together before each scene when making a film, to make it easier to match the sound and pictures of different scenes.
  • cloud-capped — having clouds around the top
  • clutch pedal — The clutch pedal is the pedal by which the driver of a vehicle operates the clutch.
  • coated paper — a paper whose surface has been treated to take halftone impressions or color printing
  • compassioned — a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering.
  • compoundable — That can be compounded.
  • conduplicate — folded lengthways on itself
  • contemplated — to look at or view with continued attention; observe or study thoughtfully: to contemplate the stars.
  • copy-reading — to work on (copy) as a copyreader.
  • counterplead — to plead the opposite of
  • coup d'essai — a first attempt.
  • coup de main — an attack that achieves complete surprise
  • d'anjou pear — Anjou pear
  • d-s particle — a positively charged meson having a mass 3852 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 4.7 X 10 -13 seconds.
  • daguerrotype — Misspelling of daguerreotype.
  • dall's sheep — a white-haired wild sheep, Ovis dalli, of mountainous regions of northwestern North America, having curved horns.
  • damper pedal — a pedal on a piano that when depressed with the foot raises the dampers and permits the strings to vibrate and sustain the tone.
  • dancing step — balanced step.
  • danger point — the point at which something ceases to be safe
  • daphnephoria — an ancient Greek festival in honor of Apollo.
  • data capture — any process for converting information into a form that can be handled by a computer
  • de-emphasize — to remove emphasis from
  • dead spindle — a rounded rod, usually of wood, tapering toward each end, used in hand-spinning to twist into thread the fibers drawn from the mass on the distaff, and on which the thread is wound as it is spun.
  • deaspiration — the act of deaspirating
  • death spiral — a period of continuous deterioration that leads ultimately to catastrophic failure or destruction
  • decapacitate — To reduce something's or someone's capability to do something.
  • decapitalise — to deprive of capital; discourage capital formation; withdraw capital from: The government decapitalized industry with harsh tax policies.
  • decapitalize — to make difficult to have or to take away stock or wealth from
  • decapitating — Present participle of decapitate.
  • decapitation — to cut off the head of; behead: Many people were decapitated during the French Revolution.
  • decapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of decapsulate.
  • decipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
  • deck passage — overnight accommodation on a vessel other than in a regular sleeping space.
  • deckle strap — a strap on each edge of the moving web of paper on a paper-making machine that fixes the width of the paper
  • decompensate — to undergo decompensation due to disease or impairment
  • decomposable — to separate or resolve into constituent parts or elements; disintegrate: The bacteria decomposed the milk into its solid and liquid elements.
  • decrepitated — Simple past tense and past participle of decrepitate.
  • decrepitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decrepitate.
  • deduplicated — Simple past tense and past participle of deduplicate.
  • deemphasized — Simple past tense and past participle of deemphasize.
  • deemphasizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deemphasize.
  • deep therapy — radiotherapy with very penetrating short-wave radiation
  • deepwaterman — a ship that goes far out to sea and into deep water
  • delapidation — Dated form of dilapidation.
  • delayed drop — a parachute descent with the opening of the parachute delayed, usually for a predetermined period
  • delta-prolog — A Prolog extension with AND-parallelism, don't-know nondeterminism and interprocess communication using synchronous event goals and distributed backtracking.
  • demand paged — demand paging
  • demographers — Plural form of demographer.
  • demographics — data resulting from the science of demography; population statistics
  • demographies — the science of vital and social statistics, as of the births, deaths, diseases, marriages, etc., of populations.
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