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12-letter words containing d, e, n, u, a

  • paludamentum — a cloak worn by officials and military officers of ancient Rome, especially during wartime.
  • pandanaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Pandanaceae, an Old World tropical family of monocotyledonous plants including the screw pines
  • paradoxurine — relating to the palm civet
  • pasture land — grassland used for grazing
  • pediculation — the act or process of growing a stalk or pedicle
  • pedunculated — having a peduncle.
  • peradventure — chance, doubt, or uncertainty.
  • 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.
  • preannounced — to make known publicly or officially; proclaim; give notice of: to announce a special sale.
  • prudentially — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or resulting from prudence.
  • pseudoanemia — Pathology. a quantitative deficiency of the hemoglobin, often accompanied by a reduced number of red blood cells and causing pallor, weakness, and breathlessness.
  • pseudorandom — noting or pertaining to random numbers generated by a definite computational process to satisfy a statistical test.
  • pudding-face — a human face that is big and fat and resembles a pudding
  • pudding-head — a stupid person
  • pumpkin head — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
  • 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.
  • put-and-take — any of various games of chance played with a teetotum or other special type of top, in which each player puts in an equal stake before starting to spin the top.
  • puy de sancy — a mountain in S central France: highest peak of the Monts Dore. Height: 1886 m (6188 ft)
  • quadriennial — quadrennial.
  • quadriennium — quadrennium.
  • quadrivalent — having a valence of four; tetravalent.
  • quarter bend — a 90° bend, as in a plumbing pipe.
  • queenslander — a native or inhabitant of Queensland
  • quinacridone — Any of a group of synthetic organic compounds whose molecules contain three benzene and two pyridine rings arranged alternately. They include a number of red to violet pigments.
  • quindecagons — Plural form of quindecagon.
  • quindecaplet — a group of 15
  • quinquenniad — a period of five years, quinquennium
  • radiolucency — almost entirely transparent to radiation; almost entirely invisible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy.
  • radionuclide — a radioactive nuclide.
  • reacquainted — to make more or less familiar, aware, or conversant (usually followed by with): to acquaint the mayor with our plan.
  • read up (on) — to become well informed (about) by reading
  • readjustment — an act of readjusting or the state of being readjusted.
  • rear-mounted — (of an engine, etc) fitted at the back of a vehicle
  • refoundation — an act of refounding
  • returned man — a member of the armed forces discharged in Canada after service overseas.
  • rideau canal — a waterway in SE Ontario, Canada, connecting the Ottawa Riverin Ottawa to Lake Ontario in Kingston. 125 miles (202 km) long.
  • rouge dragon — a pursuivant at the English college of arms
  • ruling grade — the steepest grade on a given stretch of track, which determines the maximum tonnage that can be hauled in a train having a given horsepower at a stated minimum speed.
  • running head — a descriptive word, phrase, title, or the like, usually repeated at the top of each page of a book, periodical, etc.
  • rutlandshire — a former county, now part of Leicestershire, in central England.
  • safe conduct — If you are given safe conduct, the authorities officially allow you to travel somewhere, guaranteeing that you will not be arrested or harmed while doing so.
  • safe-conduct — a document authorizing safe passage through a region, especially in time of war.
  • salad burnet — a plant, Poterium sanguisorba, of the rose family, native to Eurasia, having rounded heads of small, greenish flowers in short spikes and edible leaves.
  • sapindaceous — belonging to the Sapindaceae, the soapberry family of plants.
  • screw around — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
  • secunderabad — a city in N Andhra Pradesh, in central India, part of Hyderabad: a former British military cantonment.
  • sendai virus — a paramyxovirus that tends to cause cell fusion: in inactive form, used in biological research to produce cells with multiple nuclei of different genetic constitutions.
  • sleep around — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
  • sound camera — a motion-picture camera that is capable of photographing silently at the normal speed of 24 fps and operating in synchronization with separate audio recording equipment.
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