12-letter words containing d, e, c, u, p
- 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.
- palace guard — the security force protecting a palace.
- pandanaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Pandanaceae, an Old World tropical family of monocotyledonous plants including the screw pines
- pediculation — the act or process of growing a stalk or pedicle
- pediculicide — Also, pediculicidal. destructive to lice.
- pedunculated — having a peduncle.
- photoinduced — induced by light.
- picture card — face card
- picture desk — the department at a magazine or newspaper publisher, that deals with photographs for the paper or magazine
- picture disc — a phonograph record with a picture on the vinyl.
- picture mold — a molding near a ceiling from which pictures can be suspended.
- plattdeutsch — the Low German vernacular dialects spoken in northern Germany.
- ponce around — If you say that someone is poncing around or poncing about, you mean that they are not doing something properly, quickly, or seriously.
- pre-conclude — to bring to an end; finish; terminate: to conclude a speech with a quotation from the Bible.
- pre-discount — to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.): All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at two percent.
- preannounced — to make known publicly or officially; proclaim; give notice of: to announce a special sale.
- prediscourse — communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.
- preinduction — occurring before an induction
- 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.
- pressed duck — a cooked duck sprinkled with red wine and then pressed in a device (duck press) so that the juices can be collected and served as a sauce over the breast meat and legs.
- procedurally — of or relating to a procedure or procedures, especially of a court of law, legislative body, or law enforcement agency.
- produce race — a race for the offspring of parents identified or characterized at the time of nomination.
- producer gas — a mixture of carbon monoxide and nitrogen produced by passing air over hot coke, used mainly as a fuel
- product line — all of the products carried by a manufacturer, wholesaler, or retailer.
- productively — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
- pronouncedly — strongly marked: a pronounced fishy taste.
- propaedeutic — pertaining to or of the nature of preliminary instruction.
- pseudo force — any force that is postulated to account for apparent deviations from Newton's laws of motion appearing in an accelerated reference system.
- 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.
- pseudocyesis — false pregnancy.
- pseudoscalar — a scalar quantity that changes sign when the sense of the orientation of the coordinate system is changed.
- pseudoscheme — A translator from Scheme to Common Lisp by Jonathan Rees <[email protected]>. Version 2.8. It conforms to all of R3RS except call/cc and requires Common Lisp. Runs on Lucid, Symbolics CL, VAX Lisp, Explorer CL. Mailing list: [email protected]
- pseudovector — a variable quantity, such as angular momentum, that has magnitude and orientation with respect to an axis. The components are even functions of the coordinates
- pudding rice — a type of short-grained rice that is suitable for making into a rice pudding
- pudding-face — a human face that is big and fat and resembles a pudding
- punched card — a card having holes punched in specific positions and patterns so as to represent data to be stored or processed mechanically, electrically, or photoelectrically.
- punched tape — Computers. paper tape.
- 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.
- puy de sancy — a mountain in S central France: highest peak of the Monts Dore. Height: 1886 m (6188 ft)
- quadraplegic — quadriplegic.
- quadriplegic — a person with quadriplegia.
- quickstepped — Simple past tense and past participle of quickstep.
- quindecaplet — a group of 15
- reproducible — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- reproduction — the act or process of reproducing.
- reproductive — serving to reproduce.
- rice pudding — dessert made from rice and milk
- sapindaceous — belonging to the Sapindaceae, the soapberry family of plants.