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12-letter words containing d, e, p, l, o, r

  • 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.
  • plasterboard — a material used for insulating or covering walls, or as a lath, consisting of paper-covered sheets of gypsum and felt.
  • 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.
  • plerocercoid — the wormlike larval stage of some tapeworms, intermediate between the first parasitic larval stage and adult.
  • polar wander — the movement of the earth's magnetic poles with respect to the geographic poles
  • policyholder — the individual or firm in whose name an insurance policy is written; an insured.
  • polydisperse — of or noting a sol that contains particles of different sizes.
  • polyhedrosis — an often fatal disease of certain insect larvae or decapod crustaceans, caused by viruses containing DNA.
  • poodle skirt — 1950s-style woman's circular skirt
  • poodle-faker — a young man or newly commissioned officer who makes a point of socializing with women; ladies' man
  • porthole die — a die having several openings for the extrusion of separate parts of an object later formed by the welding or fusing together of these parts.
  • postal order — money order.
  • postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
  • postdelivery — of, relating to, or occurring after a delivery
  • poster child — a child appearing on a poster for a charitable organization.
  • powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
  • powerbuilder — (tool, database)   A graphical user interface development tool from Powersoft for developing client-server database applications. It runs under MS-DOS(?) and Microsoft Windows. There are also versions for Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Macintosh, and Unix. Applications can be built by creating windows, controls (such as listboxes and buttons), and menus within the PowerBuilder development environment. The language used to program PowerBuilder, PowerScript, is loosely based on BASIC. PowerBuilder supports programming on many database backends including Sybase and Oracle. It also has added support for ODBC database drivers. PowerBuilder also comes with a built-in database backend (WATCOM SQL 32-bit relational database).
  • pre-conclude — to bring to an end; finish; terminate: to conclude a speech with a quotation from the Bible.
  • pre-enrolled — to write the name of (a person) in a roll or register; place upon a list; register: It took two days to enroll the new students.
  • pre-modelled — a standard or example for imitation or comparison.
  • predilection — a tendency to think favorably of something in particular; partiality; preference: a predilection for Bach.
  • prednisolone — a synthetic glucocorticoid, C 2 1 H 2 8 O 5 , used in various forms to treat inflammation and allergies and in the treatment of acute leukemia, Hodgkin's disease, and lymphomas.
  • 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.
  • product line — all of the products carried by a manufacturer, wholesaler, or retailer.
  • productively — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
  • profile drag — the sum of the surface friction drag and the form drag for a body moving subsonically through a fluid
  • pronouncedly — strongly marked: a pronounced fishy taste.
  • providential — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
  • 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
  • railroad pen — a ruling pen for drawing two parallel lines.
  • 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.
  • redeployment — to transfer (a unit, a person, supplies, etc.) from one theater of operations to another.
  • reproducible — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • ripe old age — advanced age
  • scolopendrid — any myriapod of the order Scolopendrida, including many large, poisonous centipedes.
  • self-powered — (of a machine, vehicle, etc.) having a specified fuel or prime mover: a gasoline-powered engine; an engine-powered pump.
  • shoulder pad — clothing: insert in shoulder
  • siderophilic — having characteristics of siderophile
  • 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.
  • sloop-rigged — (of a sailboat) fore-and-aft rigged with a mainsail and a jib.
  • sloped roman — a roman (vertical) typeface, usually sans serif, i.e. without the small, decorative, terminal strokes with which some typefaces are designed. The typeface is made to slope (usually to the right), but not generally to the same degree as a true italic typeface
  • snow leopard — a long-haired, leopardlike feline, Panthera (Uncia) uncia, of mountain ranges of central Asia, having a relatively small head and a thick, creamy-gray coat with rosette spots: an endangered species.
  • superordinal — relating to the superorder
  • table tripod — a low mount or stand for a camera.
  • tradespeople — people engaged in trade, esp shopkeepers
  • triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
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