12-letter words containing a, p, o, d, i
- compassioned — a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering.
- conduplicate — folded lengthways on itself
- copy-reading — to work on (copy) as a copyreader.
- coup d'essai — a first attempt.
- coup de main — an attack that achieves complete surprise
- dallapiccola — Luigi (luˈiːdʒi). 1904–75, Italian composer of twelve-tone music. His works include the opera Il Prigioniero (1944–48) and the ballet Marsia (1948)
- danger point — the point at which something ceases to be safe
- daphnephoria — an ancient Greek festival in honor of Apollo.
- day hospital — part of a hospital that offers therapeutic services, where patients usually attend all day but go home or to a hospital ward at night
- deaspiration — the act of deaspirating
- decapitation — to cut off the head of; behead: Many people were decapitated during the French Revolution.
- delapidation — Dated form of dilapidation.
- 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.
- deoppilation — the removal of obstructions
- deoppilative — any drug which removes obstructions in the body
- depilatories — Plural form of depilatory.
- depopulating — Present participle of depopulate.
- depopulation — to remove or reduce the population of, as by destruction or expulsion.
- depopulative — That depopulates.
- deportations — Plural form of deportation.
- deposit loan — a loan to cover the cost of a deposit on something such as rented accommodation
- depositaries — Plural form of depositary.
- depositation — the act of depositing
- depositional — of or relating to a deposition
- depreciation — the reduction in value of a fixed asset due to use, obsolescence, etc
- depreciatory — tending to depreciate.
- depredations — the act of preying upon or plundering; robbery; ravage.
- deprivations — Plural form of deprivation.
- deputization — the act of making someone a deputy
- dermographia — dermatographia.
- dermographic — dermatographia.
- desaparecido — one who has disappeared: used, especially in Latin America, in referring to a person who has been secretly imprisoned or killed during a government's program of political suppression.
- desmoplastic — (pathology) That produces adhesions.
- despoliation — the act of despoiling; plunder or pillage
- despotically — of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
- deuteranopia — a form of colour blindness in which there is a tendency to confuse blues and greens, and greens and reds, and in which sensitivity to green is reduced
- diageotropic — (of a plant part) growing at a right angle to the direction of gravity.
- diaphanously — In a diaphanous manner or to a diaphanous extent.
- diastrophism — the process of movement and deformation of the earth's crust that gives rise to large-scale features such as continents, ocean basins, and mountains
- dictatorship — Dictatorship is government by a dictator.
- dictyopteran — any insect of the order Dictyoptera, which comprises the cockroaches and mantises
- diencephalon — the posterior section of the forebrain.
- dilapidation — to cause or allow (a building, automobile, etc.) to fall into a state of disrepair, as by misuse or neglect (often used passively): The house had been dilapidated by neglect.
- dinosaur pen — A traditional mainframe computer room complete with raised flooring, special power, its own ultra-heavy-duty air conditioning, and a side order of Halon fire extinguishers. See boa.
- diphosphates — a pyrophosphate.
- diploblastic — having two germ layers, the ectoderm and endoderm, as the embryos of sponges and coelenterates.
- diplocardiac — having the right and left sides of the heart somewhat or completely divided, as in birds and mammals.
- diploma mill — an academic institution with low standards that awards many degrees
- diplomatical — Obsolete form of diplomatic.