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

  • pebbledashed — covered with a finish for external walls consisting of small stones embedded in plaster
  • peccadilloes — a very minor or slight sin or offense; a trifling fault.
  • pedantically — ostentatious in one's learning.
  • 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.
  • perez galdos — Benito [buh-nee-toh;; Spanish be-nee-taw] /bəˈni toʊ;; Spanish bɛˈni tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1843–1920, Spanish journalist, dramatist, and novelist.
  • 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.
  • personalised — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
  • personalized — customized
  • petrodollars — Petrodollars are a unit of money used to calculate how much a country has earned by exporting petroleum or natural gas.
  • philadelphia — a city in SE Pennsylvania, on the Delaware River: Declaration of Independence signed here July 4, 1776.
  • philadelphus — (Philadelphus) king of Pergamum c159–138 b.c.
  • philandering — (of a man) to make love with a woman one cannot or will not marry; carry on flirtations.
  • pied wagtail — a British songbird, Motacilla alba yarrellii, with a black throat and back, long black tail, and white underparts and face: family Motacillidae (wagtails and pipits)
  • pig islander — a New Zealander
  • pilot ladder — Jacob's ladder (def 2a).
  • pimelic acid — a crystalline compound, C 7 H 1 2 O 4 , soluble in alcohol and ether: used in polymers and as a plasticizer.
  • pineal gland — a small, cone-shaped endocrine organ in the posterior forebrain, secreting melatonin and involved in biorhythms and gonadal development.
  • place-holder — Mathematics, Logic. a symbol in an expression that may be replaced by the name of any element of the set.
  • plagiohedral — (of a crystal) having faces arranged obliquely in a helix.
  • 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.
  • plasterboard — a material used for insulating or covering walls, or as a lath, consisting of paper-covered sheets of gypsum and felt.
  • plate girder — an iron or steel beam built up from plates and shapes welded or riveted together, usually including a plate or plates for a web, four angle irons forming two flanges, and a pair of plates to reinforce the flanges.
  • platform bed — a bed, originating in Scandinavia in the 1930s, consisting of a simple shallow box for holding a mattress situated on a slightly recessed pedestal.
  • plattdeutsch — the Low German vernacular dialects spoken in northern Germany.
  • play reading — the activity when a group of people read the parts of a play
  • plead guilty — defendant: declare guilt
  • pleased with — satisfied or content with
  • polar wander — the movement of the earth's magnetic poles with respect to the geographic poles
  • 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.
  • polythiazide — a substance, C 1 1 H 1 3 ClF 3 N 3 O 4 S 3 , used as a diuretic in the management of edema and hypertension.
  • poodle-faker — a young man or newly commissioned officer who makes a point of socializing with women; ladies' man
  • postal order — money order.
  • postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
  • postdeadline — the time by which something must be finished or submitted; the latest time for finishing something: a five o'clock deadline.
  • postmedieval — occurring or existing after the Middle Ages, of or related to the period after the Middle Ages
  • powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
  • pre-prandial — You use pre-prandial to refer to things you do or have before a meal.
  • preassembled — assembled prior to purchase
  • precedential — of the nature of or constituting a precedent.
  • premium deal — a commercial transaction in which a special incentive or bonus is offered
  • presidential — of or relating to a president or presidency.
  • procathedral — a church used temporarily as a cathedral.
  • procedurally — of or relating to a procedure or procedures, especially of a court of law, legislative body, or law enforcement agency.
  • profile drag — the sum of the surface friction drag and the form drag for a body moving subsonically through a fluid
  • providential — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
  • prudentially — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or resulting from prudence.
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