12-letter words containing d, e, p, i, n
- magnetic dip — to plunge (something, as a cloth or sponge) temporarily into a liquid, so as to moisten it, dye it, or cause it to take up some of the liquid: He dipped the brush into the paint bucket.
- malimprinted — (of an animal or person) suffering from a defect in the behavioural process of imprinting, resulting in attraction to members of other species, fetishism, etc
- manspreading — the practice by a male passenger on public transport of sitting with his legs wide apart, so denying space to passengers beside him
- meanspirited — petty; small-minded; ungenerous: a meanspirited man, unwilling to forgive.
- media person — a person who works in the mass media
- median plane — a vertical plane that divides an organism into symmetrical halves.
- median point — centroid (def 2).
- median strip — a paved, planted, or landscaped strip in the center of a highway that separates lanes of traffic going in opposite directions.
- mesoappendix — the mesentery of the vermiform appendix.
- microprinted — printed in microprint
- middle plane — middle distance (def 1).
- misapprehend — to misunderstand.
- mispleadings — Plural form of mispleading.
- money spider — any of certain small shiny brownish spiders of the family Linyphiidae
- monodelphian — any placental mammal that is a member of the group Monodelphia
- monodisperse — (of a colloid) Having particles of (approximately) the same size.
- multipronged — having or composed of several prongs: a multipronged electric plug.
- needlepoints — Plural form of needlepoint.
- neuropeptide — any of various short-chain peptides, as endorphins, that function as neuromodulators in the nervous system and as hormones in the endocrine system.
- new paradigm — a set of beliefs that replaces another set which is believed no longer to apply
- nondeceptive — not deceptive
- nondepleting — not depleting
- nondescripts — Plural form of nondescript.
- nonpigmented — a dry insoluble substance, usually pulverized, which when suspended in a liquid vehicle becomes a paint, ink, etc.
- norephedrine — The drug phenylpropanolamine.
- nucleocapsid — the nucleic acid core and surrounding capsid of a virus; the basic viral structure.
- onion-shaped — bulb-shaped; shaped like an onion
- open verdict — law: coroner's jury finding
- opera window — a narrow, fixed window on each side of the rear passenger compartment of an automobile.
- outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
- overspending — the act or an instance of spending in excess of one's desires or what one can afford or is allocated
- paedodontics — the branch of dentistry that focuses on the care of children's teeth
- paedogenesis — sexual reproduction in an animal that retains its larval features
- paint bridge — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
- painted lady — a butterfly, Vanessa cardui, having brownish-black and orange wings and hind wings each with four eyespots, the larvae of which feed on thistles.
- pale-skinned — having pale skin
- paleo-indian — of, relating to, or characteristic of a New World cultural stage, c22,000–6000 b.c., distinguished by fluted-point tools and cooperative hunting methods.
- panty girdle — women's control pants
- paradoxurine — relating to the palm civet
- parascending — parasailing
- parasphenoid — a bone next to the sphenoid bone in the skull of some animals
- pearl diving — the act of diving for the precious gems pearls
- pedantically — ostentatious in one's learning.
- pediatrician — a physician who specializes in pediatrics.
- pediculation — the act or process of growing a stalk or pedicle
- pencil cedar — the red cedar, Juniperus virginiana, or its wood.
- pend oreille — a river in NE Washington, N Idaho, and SE British Columbia, flowing NW to the Columbia River. 130 miles (209 km) long.
- pension fund — a fund created and maintained, as by a corporation, to provide benefits under a pension plan.
- pentacrinoid — a larval crinoid resembling members of the genus Pentacrinus
- pentapeptide — a polypeptide consisting of five amino acids