12-letter words containing a, d, u, c
- orchidaceous — belonging to the plant family Orchidaceae.
- outdistanced — Simple past tense and past participle of outdistance.
- outdistances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outdistance.
- overeducated — Having been educated to a higher academic level than is necessary.
- pachydermous — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
- packed lunch — A packed lunch is food, for example sandwiches, which you take to work, to school, or on a trip and eat as your lunch.
- palace guard — the security force protecting a palace.
- paludicolous — inhabiting marshland
- pandanaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Pandanaceae, an Old World tropical family of monocotyledonous plants including the screw pines
- pediculation — the act or process of growing a stalk or pedicle
- pedunculated — having a peduncle.
- picture card — face card
- plattdeutsch — the Low German vernacular dialects spoken in northern Germany.
- 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.
- preannounced — to make known publicly or officially; proclaim; give notice of: to announce a special sale.
- procedurally — of or relating to a procedure or procedures, especially of a court of law, legislative body, or law enforcement agency.
- produce race — a race for the offspring of parents identified or characterized at the time of nomination.
- producer gas — a mixture of carbon monoxide and nitrogen produced by passing air over hot coke, used mainly as a fuel
- product mark — a trademark used on only one product.
- productional — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
- promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
- propaedeutic — pertaining to or of the nature of preliminary instruction.
- prussic acid — weakly acidic extremely poisonous aqueous solution of hydrogen cyanide
- pseudocereal — any of several plants, as buckwheat and quinoa, that produce fruits and seeds used as flour but are not of the grass family.
- pseudoscalar — a scalar quantity that changes sign when the sense of the orientation of the coordinate system is changed.
- pudding-face — a human face that is big and fat and resembles a pudding
- punched card — a card having holes punched in specific positions and patterns so as to represent data to be stored or processed mechanically, electrically, or photoelectrically.
- punched tape — Computers. paper tape.
- punditocracy — influential media pundits collectively.
- puy de sancy — a mountain in S central France: highest peak of the Monts Dore. Height: 1886 m (6188 ft)
- pyruvic acid — a water-soluble liquid, C 3 H 4 O 3 , important in many metabolic and fermentative processes, having an odor resembling that of acetic acid, prepared by the dehydration of tartaric acid: used chiefly in biochemical research.
- quack doctor — an unqualified person who claims medical knowledge or other skills
- quadraphonic — of, noting, or pertaining to the recording and reproduction of sound over four separate transmission or direct reproduction channels instead of the customary two of the stereo system: a quadraphonic recording.
- quadraplegic — quadriplegic.
- quadriphonic — quadraphonic.
- quadriplegic — a person with quadriplegia.
- quadrisected — Simple past tense and past participle of quadrisect.
- quadrisonics — quadraphony.
- quadrophonic — Alternative spelling of quadraphonic.
- quarry-faced — rock-faced.
- quarterdecks — Plural form of quarterdeck.
- quinacridone — Any of a group of synthetic organic compounds whose molecules contain three benzene and two pyridine rings arranged alternately. They include a number of red to violet pigments.
- quindecagons — Plural form of quindecagon.
- quindecaplet — a group of 15
- race suicide — the extinction of a racial or ethnic population that tends to result when, through the unwillingness or forbearance of its members to have children, the birthrate falls below the death rate.
- radicicolous — living on the roots of plants
- radicivorous — feeding on the roots of plants
- radio source — a cosmic object or phenomenon, as a galaxy, pulsar, quasar, or the remnant of a supernova or of a galactic collision, that emits radio waves.
- radiolucency — almost entirely transparent to radiation; almost entirely invisible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy.
- radionuclide — a radioactive nuclide.