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12-letter words containing d, a, l, r, i

  • 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).
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • play reading — the activity when a group of people read the parts of a play
  • 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.
  • postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
  • postprandial — after a meal, especially after dinner: postprandial oratory; a postprandial brandy.
  • pot marigold — calendula (def 1).
  • pre-prandial — You use pre-prandial to refer to things you do or have before a meal.
  • 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.
  • primordially — constituting a beginning; giving origin to something derived or developed; original; elementary: primordial forms of life.
  • prodigal son — a figure in a parable of Jesus (Luke 15:11–32); a wayward son who squanders his inheritance but returns home to find that his father forgives him.
  • productional — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
  • profile drag — the sum of the surface friction drag and the form drag for a body moving subsonically through a fluid
  • prolog-linda — 1. Prolog extended with Linda-style parallelism. Proc 4th Australian Conf on Artif Intell. 2. Neil MacDonald, U Edinburgh 1989. Another Prolog extended with Linda, implemented on a Computing Surface.
  • prosodically — in a prosodic manner
  • providential — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
  • prudentially — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or resulting from prudence.
  • pyramidology — a belief system based on the supposed occult significance of the Egyptian pyramids
  • pyritohedral — of or relating to a pyritohedron
  • quadraplegic — quadriplegic.
  • quadriennial — quadrennial.
  • quadrillions — Plural form of quadrillion.
  • quadrinomial — consisting of four terms.
  • quadriplegia — paralysis of all four limbs or of the entire body below the neck.
  • quadriplegic — a person with quadriplegia.
  • quadrivalent — having a valence of four; tetravalent.
  • radiant flux — the time rate of flow of radiant energy.
  • radical axis — the line such that tangents drawn from any point of the line to two given circles are equal in length.
  • radical chic — the patronage of extremists or left-wing radicals by rich or famous people, as through invitations to social functions or public expressions of support.
  • radical left — the faction representing extreme left-wing political views, often Marxist or Maoist in ideology.
  • radical sign — the symbol √ or indicating extraction of a root of the quantity that follows it, as √25=5 or .
  • radicicolous — living on the roots of plants
  • radio galaxy — a galaxy that emits much more strongly in the radio part of the spectrum than does a typical galaxy.
  • radio-collar — to attach a radio collar to (an animal).
  • radiobiology — the branch of biology dealing with the effects of radiation on living matter.
  • radioecology — the branch of ecology concerned with the effects of radioactivity on the environment
  • radioelement — a radioactive element.
  • radiolocator — radar.
  • radiological — of or relating to radiology.
  • radiolucency — almost entirely transparent to radiation; almost entirely invisible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy.
  • radionuclide — a radioactive nuclide.
  • railroad car — a railway carriage or van
  • railroad pen — a ruling pen for drawing two parallel lines.
  • railway yard — an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings, used for storing rolling stock, making up trains, etc
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