12-letter words containing d, e, p, l, t
- ledger strip — a piece attached to the face of a beam at the bottom as a support for the ends of joists.
- leontopodium — any plant of the Eurasian alpine genus Leontopodium, esp L. alpinum
- leopard moth — a moth, Zeuzera pyrina, having white wings spotted with black and larvae that bore into the wood of various trees and shrubs.
- lepidopteran — lepidopterous.
- lepidopteron — any lepidopterous insect.
- limp-wristed — Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. effeminate.
- lithographed — Simple past tense and past participle of lithograph.
- lithopedions — Plural form of lithopedion.
- low-spirited — depressed; dejected: He is feeling rather low-spirited today.
- lower depths — a play (1902) by Maxim Gorki.
- 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
- middle stump — the stump inside of the leg stump and the off stump; the second of the three stumps of a wicket.
- molded depth — the depth of a vessel at the broadest transverse section from the top of the keel to the upper side of the main deck beam at the side.
- multipronged — having or composed of several prongs: a multipronged electric plug.
- needlepoints — Plural form of needlepoint.
- nondepleting — not depleting
- oil deposits — reserves of petroleum found underground (or under the sea)
- oligopeptide — A peptide whose molecules contain a relatively small number of amino-acid residues.
- orthopedical — (American spelling) Alternative form of orthopaedical.
- outside loop — a loop during which the back of the airplane is on the outer side of the curve described by the course of flight.
- 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.
- paludamentum — a cloak worn by officials and military officers of ancient Rome, especially during wartime.
- panel doctor — a doctor within a given area available for consultation by patients insured under the National Health Insurance Scheme
- panty girdle — women's control pants
- particolored — having different colors in different areas or patches; variegated: a parti-colored dress.
- party leader — a leader of a political party
- pasture land — grassland used for grazing
- pedantically — ostentatious in one's learning.
- pediculation — the act or process of growing a stalk or pedicle
- pedunculated — having a peduncle.
- peptidolytic — causing the hydrolysis of peptides.
- petrodollars — Petrodollars are a unit of money used to calculate how much a country has earned by exporting petroleum or natural gas.
- picture mold — a molding near a ceiling from which pictures can be suspended.
- pied wagtail — a British songbird, Motacilla alba yarrellii, with a black throat and back, long black tail, and white underparts and face: family Motacillidae (wagtails and pipits)
- pilot ladder — Jacob's ladder (def 2a).
- pit dwelling — a primitive dwelling consisting of a pit excavated in the earth and roofed over.
- 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.
- plattdeutsch — the Low German vernacular dialects spoken in northern Germany.
- plead guilty — defendant: declare guilt
- pleased with — satisfied or content with
- pollutedness — the state of being polluted
- polypeptidic — relating to a polypeptide
- polysyndeton — the use of a number of conjunctions in close succession.
- polythiazide — a substance, C 1 1 H 1 3 ClF 3 N 3 O 4 S 3 , used as a diuretic in the management of edema and hypertension.
- poodle skirt — 1950s-style woman's circular skirt
- 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