12-letter words containing c, e, l, a, d
- middle class — educated and well off
- middle watch — the watch from midnight until 4 a.m.
- middle-class — of, relating to, or characteristic of the middle class; bourgeois: middle-class taste; middle-class morality.
- miracle drug — wonder drug.
- misallocated — to allocate mistakenly or improperly: to misallocate resources.
- multidecadal — Involving multiple decades.
- multifaceted — Having many facets.
- multitracked — (music) Recorded on multiple tracks.
- musical ride — a display by riders on horseback of manoeuvres to music, esp by members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- needle match — a bitterly fought contest between two competitors or teams who bear each other a grudge
- nested class — (Java) In Java, a class defined within an enclosing class definition. A static nested class has no direct access to the members of its enclosing class whereas a non-static nested class, known as an "inner class", is associated with an instance of the enclosing class and an instance of the inner class has direct access to the members of its enclosing instance.
- netherlandic — Dutch (def 7).
- nonidentical — similar or alike in every way: The two cars are identical except for their license plates.
- nonmedically — In a nonmedical manner.
- nonmedicinal — Not medicinal.
- nonnucleated — having no nucleus
- nucleic acid — any of a group of long, linear macromolecules, either DNA or various types of RNA, that carry genetic information directing all cellular functions: composed of linked nucleotides.
- nucleocapsid — the nucleic acid core and surrounding capsid of a virus; the basic viral structure.
- nucleosidase — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of nucleosides.
- nucleotidase — a biochemical catalyst that facilitates the process of hydrolyzing or splitting a nucleotide and turning it into a phosphate and a nucleoside
- occidentally — In an occidental manner.
- octahedrally — in an octahedral manner
- officialized — Simple past tense and past participle of officialize.
- old covenant — the covenant between God and the ancient Israelites, based on the Mosaic Law.
- oleandomycin — a macrolide antibiotic used to treat skin infections
- orthopedical — (American spelling) Alternative form of orthopaedical.
- overbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of overbalance.
- overdelicate — extremely or excessively delicate: an overdelicate digestive system.
- package deal — Also called package plan. an agreement in which the buyer pays a stipulated price for a group of related products or services: a package deal from a book club.
- 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.
- paedophiliac — an adult who is sexually attracted to young children.
- palace guard — the security force protecting a palace.
- panel doctor — a doctor within a given area available for consultation by patients insured under the National Health Insurance Scheme
- para-medical — related to the medical profession in a secondary or supplementary capacity.
- particolored — having different colors in different areas or patches; variegated: a parti-colored dress.
- 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.
- 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.
- pimelic acid — a crystalline compound, C 7 H 1 2 O 4 , soluble in alcohol and ether: used in polymers and as a plasticizer.
- place-holder — Mathematics, Logic. a symbol in an expression that may be replaced by the name of any element of the set.
- 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.
- plattdeutsch — the Low German vernacular dialects spoken in northern Germany.
- 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.
- postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
- precedential — of the nature of or constituting a precedent.