12-letter words containing d, e, l, a, r
- perez galdos — Benito [buh-nee-toh;; Spanish be-nee-taw] /bəˈni toʊ;; Spanish bɛˈni tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1843–1920, Spanish journalist, dramatist, and novelist.
- 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.
- personalised — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
- personalized — customized
- petrodollars — Petrodollars are a unit of money used to calculate how much a country has earned by exporting petroleum or natural gas.
- 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).
- place-holder — Mathematics, Logic. a symbol in an expression that may be replaced by the name of any element of the set.
- 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.
- plasterboard — a material used for insulating or covering walls, or as a lath, consisting of paper-covered sheets of gypsum and felt.
- 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.
- platform bed — a bed, originating in Scandinavia in the 1930s, consisting of a simple shallow box for holding a mattress situated on a slightly recessed pedestal.
- play reading — the activity when a group of people read the parts of a play
- polar wander — the movement of the earth's magnetic poles with respect to the geographic poles
- poodle-faker — a young man or newly commissioned officer who makes a point of socializing with women; ladies' man
- postal order — money order.
- postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
- powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
- pre-prandial — You use pre-prandial to refer to things you do or have before a meal.
- preassembled — assembled prior to purchase
- 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.
- 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.
- profile drag — the sum of the surface friction drag and the form drag for a body moving subsonically through a fluid
- providential — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
- prudentially — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or resulting from prudence.
- pseudocereal — any of several plants, as buckwheat and quinoa, that produce fruits and seeds used as flour but are not of the grass family.
- pseudoscalar — a scalar quantity that changes sign when the sense of the orientation of the coordinate system is changed.
- pyritohedral — of or relating to a pyritohedron
- quadraplegic — quadriplegic.
- quadriennial — quadrennial.
- 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.
- quadruplexes — Plural form of quadruplex.
- queenslander — a native or inhabitant of Queensland
- radical left — the faction representing extreme left-wing political views, often Marxist or Maoist in ideology.
- radioecology — the branch of ecology concerned with the effects of radioactivity on the environment
- radioelement — a radioactive element.
- radiolucency — almost entirely transparent to radiation; almost entirely invisible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy.
- radionuclide — a radioactive nuclide.
- railroad pen — a ruling pen for drawing two parallel lines.
- rally driver — sports-car racer
- rapeseed oil — a brownish-yellow oil obtained by expression from rapeseed and used chiefly as a lubricant, an illuminant, and in the manufacture of rubber substitutes.
- ravioli code — (jargon, humour) Object-oriented code consisting of a number of small and loosely-coupled software components. Presumably, the term is a compliment, contrasting the code with spaghetti code.