12-letter words containing c, p, l, d
- paludicolous — inhabiting marshland
- 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.
- paradisaical — paradisiacal.
- paradisiacal — of, like, or befitting paradise.
- particolored — having different colors in different areas or patches; variegated: a parti-colored dress.
- pascal-linda — Ian Flockhart, U Edinburgh, 1991. Under development.
- 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
- pediculicide — Also, pediculicidal. destructive to lice.
- pedunculated — having a peduncle.
- pencil cedar — the red cedar, Juniperus virginiana, or its wood.
- peptidolytic — causing the hydrolysis of peptides.
- 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.
- pickerelweed — any American plant of the genus Pontederia, especially P. cordata, having spikes of blue flowers, common in shallow fresh water.
- picture mold — a molding near a ceiling from which pictures can be suspended.
- 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.
- playing card — one of the conventional set of 52 cards in four suits, as diamonds, hearts, spades, and clubs, used in playing various games of chance and skill.
- plerocercoid — the wormlike larval stage of some tapeworms, intermediate between the first parasitic larval stage and adult.
- poland china — one of an American breed of black hogs having white markings.
- 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.
- policyholder — the individual or firm in whose name an insurance policy is written; an insured.
- polypeptidic — relating to a polypeptide
- postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
- postdoctoral — of or relating to study or professional work undertaken after the receipt of a doctorate: postdoctoral courses.
- poster child — a child appearing on a poster for a charitable organization.
- pre-conclude — to bring to an end; finish; terminate: to conclude a speech with a quotation from the Bible.
- precedential — of the nature of or constituting a precedent.
- predictively — of or relating to prediction: losing one's predictive power.
- predilection — a tendency to think favorably of something in particular; partiality; preference: a predilection for Bach.
- prescheduled — a plan of procedure, usually written, for a proposed objective, especially with reference to the sequence of and time allotted for each item or operation necessary to its completion: The schedule allows three weeks for this stage.
- 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.
- product line — all of the products carried by a manufacturer, wholesaler, or retailer.
- productional — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
- productively — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- pronouncedly — strongly marked: a pronounced fishy taste.
- prosodically — in a prosodic manner
- pseudocereal — any of several plants, as buckwheat and quinoa, that produce fruits and seeds used as flour but are not of the grass family.
- pseudocoelom — the body cavity of certain invertebrate metazoan animals between the body wall and the intestine, which is not lined with a mesodermal epithelium.
- pseudoscalar — a scalar quantity that changes sign when the sense of the orientation of the coordinate system is changed.
- public goods — services such as national defence, law enforcement, and road building, that are for the benefit of, and available to, all members of the public
- pudding club — the state of being pregnant (esp in the phrase in the pudding club)
- purple medic — a plant, Medicago sativa, of the legume family, usually having bluish-purple flowers, originating in the Near East and widely cultivated as a forage crop.