12-letter words containing d, a, p, o, n, t
- draftsperson — a person employed in making mechanical drawings, especially in an architectural or engineering firm.
- drapetomania — (dated) an overwhelming urge to run away (from home, a bad situation, responsibility, etc.).
- drop curtain — a curtain that is lowered into position from the flies.
- drop initial — inset initial.
- duplications — Plural form of duplication.
- dystopianism — a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
- endoparasite — A parasite, such as a tapeworm, that lives inside its host.
- expeditation — the act of expeditating a dog
- foot-poundal — a foot-pound-second unit of work or energy equal to the work done by a force of one poundal when its point of application moves through a distance of one foot in the direction of the force. Abbreviation: ft-pdl.
- giant powder — dynamite composed of nitroglycerin and kieselguhr.
- gold-plating — the incorporation of costly and unnecessary features or refinements into a product or structure.
- gonadotropic — pertaining to substances formed in the anterior pituitary gland that affect the activity of the ovary or testis.
- gonadotropin — a gonadotropic substance.
- ground plate — Electricity. a metal plate for making a ground connection to the earth.
- heptahedrons — Plural form of heptahedron.
- hydnocarpate — a salt or ester of hydnocarpic acid.
- impersonated — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
- in good part — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- inadaptation — the state of not being adapted or the lack of adaptation
- incorporated — legally incorporated, as a company.
- interpolated — to introduce (something additional or extraneous) between other things or parts; interject; interpose; intercalate.
- lambda point — the temperature of approximately 2.186 K, at which the transition from helium I to superfluid helium II occurs.
- lapped joint — a joint made by placing one member over another and fastening them together
- lepidopteran — lepidopterous.
- median point — centroid (def 2).
- non-adoption — the act of adopting: the adoption of a new amendment.
- nontyphoidal — of, relating to, or resembling typhoid.
- odontography — a treatise regarding the teeth
- odontophobia — an unnatural dread or terror of teeth
- odontophoran — a member of the family Odontophora
- open-hearted — unreserved, candid, or frank: open-hearted advice.
- outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
- paedodontics — the branch of dentistry that focuses on the care of children's teeth
- 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.
- panel doctor — a doctor within a given area available for consultation by patients insured under the National Health Insurance Scheme
- pas d'action — a dramatic, pantomimic dance sequence serving to advance the plot.
- payment bond — See under contract bond.
- pedantocracy — rule by pedants; a system of government by pedants
- pediculation — the act or process of growing a stalk or pedicle
- pentacrinoid — a larval crinoid resembling members of the genus Pentacrinus
- pentadecagon — a polygon having 15 angles and 15 sides.
- pentahydroxy — (of a molecule) containing five hydroxyl groups.
- peroxidation — a type of reaction in which oxygen atoms are formed leading to the production of peroxides. It is stimulated in the body by certain toxins and infections
- photodynamic — the science dealing with light and its effects on living organisms.
- phytonadione — vitamin K1.
- piltdown man — a hypothetical early modern human, assigned to the genus Eoanthropus, whose existence was inferred from skull fragments that were allegedly found at Piltdown, England, in 1912 but were exposed as fraudulent through chemical analysis in 1953.
- point spread — a betting device, established by oddsmakers and used to attract bettors for uneven competitions, indicating the estimated number of points by which a stronger team can be expected to defeat a weaker team, the point spread being added to the weaker team's actual points in the game and this new figure then compared to the stronger team's points to determine winning bets.
- point-spread — a betting device, established by oddsmakers and used to attract bettors for uneven competitions, indicating the estimated number of points by which a stronger team can be expected to defeat a weaker team, the point spread being added to the weaker team's actual points in the game and this new figure then compared to the stronger team's points to determine winning bets.
- pointed arch — an arch having a pointed apex.
- postaccident — occurring after an accident