12-letter words containing a, l, d, r
- octahedrally — in an octahedral manner
- off-islander — a temporary or seasonal resident of an island; island visitor or tourist.
- 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 favorite — If you refer to something as an old favorite, you mean that it has been in existence for a long time and everyone knows it or likes it.
- old guardism — political conservatism.
- old prussian — a Baltic language extinct since the 17th century. Abbreviation: OPruss.
- olivary body — one of two oval bodies or prominences composed of nerve tissue, one on each side of the anterior surface of the medulla oblongata.
- olla podrida — a spicy Spanish stew of sausage and other meat, chickpeas, and often tomatoes and other vegetables.
- orange lodge — a Protestant fraternal organization based mainly in Northern Ireland and Scotland with lodges throughout the English-speaking world where there are significant Irish populations
- orbital road — a highway that circles a metropolitan area; ring road
- ordinary lay — the form of lay found in a cable-laid rope
- orthopedical — (American spelling) Alternative form of orthopaedical.
- outgeneraled — Simple past tense and past participle of outgeneral.
- overanalyzed — Simple past tense and past participle of overanalyze.
- overbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of overbalance.
- overdelicate — extremely or excessively delicate: an overdelicate digestive system.
- overidealize — to idealize excessively
- overpedalled — relating to overpedalling
- palace guard — the security force protecting a palace.
- 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.
- palo cortado — a rich, dry sherry
- panel doctor — a doctor within a given area available for consultation by patients insured under the National Health Insurance Scheme
- panty girdle — women's control pants
- para-medical — related to the medical profession in a secondary or supplementary capacity.
- paradisaical — paradisiacal.
- paradisiacal — of, like, or befitting paradise.
- paradoxology — a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
- parlor grand — a grand piano smaller than a concert grand but larger than a baby grand.
- parole board — panel who evaluate prisoners for release
- particolored — having different colors in different areas or patches; variegated: a parti-colored dress.
- party leader — a leader of a political party
- pasture land — grassland used for grazing
- pearl diving — the act of diving for the precious gems pearls
- pedicellaria — one of the minute pincerlike structures common to starfish and sea urchins, used for cleaning and to capture tiny prey.
- 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.
- philandering — (of a man) to make love with a woman one cannot or will not marry; carry on flirtations.
- pig islander — a New Zealander
- pilot ladder — Jacob's ladder (def 2a).
- 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.
- plat du jour — the special or featured dish of the day on a restaurant menu.
- 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.