12-letter words containing d, e, p, o, u
- full powered — (of a vessel) relying on engines for propulsion without assistance from sails.
- geopressured — subject to geostatic pressure.
- golden syrup — treacle (def 2b).
- ground plane — (in perspective drawing) the theoretical horizontal plane receding from the picture plane to the horizon, beginning at the level of the base line.
- ground plate — Electricity. a metal plate for making a ground connection to the earth.
- groundkeeper — groundskeeper.
- heteroduplex — having polynucleotide strands derived from two different sources
- house spider — any largish dark spider of the genus Tegenaria that is common in houses, such as the cardinal spider
- impoundments — Plural form of impoundment.
- jeopardously — with risk or peril
- leontopodium — any plant of the Eurasian alpine genus Leontopodium, esp L. alpinum
- leukopedesis — an outward flow of white blood cells through a blood-vessel wall.
- ligniperdous — (of insects) wood-destroying
- liopleurodon — Any of the genus Liopleurodon of large carnivorous marine plesiosaurs, apex predators of the Middle to Late Jurassic seas that covered Europe.
- loudspeakers — Plural form of loudspeaker, especially a pair for a left and right channel.
- mass-produce — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- modus ponens — the principle that whenever a conditional statement and its antecedent are given to be true its consequent may be validly inferred, as in if it's Tuesday this must be Belgium and it's Tuesday so this must be Belgium
- monadelphous — (of stamens) united into one bundle or set by their filaments.
- mousetrapped — Simple past tense and past participle of mousetrap.
- mucopeptides — Plural form of mucopeptide.
- multipronged — having or composed of several prongs: a multipronged electric plug.
- neuropeptide — any of various short-chain peptides, as endorphins, that function as neuromodulators in the nervous system and as hormones in the endocrine system.
- nom de plume — pen name.
- nucleocapsid — the nucleic acid core and surrounding capsid of a virus; the basic viral structure.
- oil producer — a country with reserves of oil
- ombudsperson — ombudsman (def 2).
- open-mouthed — having the mouth open.
- opendocument — (file format, standard) (ODF, ISO/IEC 26300, OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications) An XML file format for office documents, such as spreadsheets, charts, presentations, databases and word processing. OpenDocument was developed by the Open Office XML technical committee of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) consortium. It is based on the XML format originally created and implemented by the OpenOffice.org office suite. OpenDocument is an open standard, i.e. freely available and implementable. Compare OOXML.
- outperformed — Simple past tense and past participle of outperform.
- outreproduce — to reproduce more prolifically than
- 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.
- outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
- overequipped — having too much equipment
- overpersuade — to persuade (a person) against his or her inclination or intention: By threats and taunts they had overpersuaded him to steal the car.
- pachydermous — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
- 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
- peau de soie — a soft, satin-weave cloth of silk or rayon, grainy and having a dull luster, used to make dresses, coats, trimmings, etc.
- pediculation — the act or process of growing a stalk or pedicle
- pension fund — a fund created and maintained, as by a corporation, to provide benefits under a pension plan.
- perfidiously — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- periodontium — the bone, connective tissue, and gum surrounding and supporting a tooth.
- phosphureted — combined with phosphorus, especially in its lowest valence state.
- photoinduced — induced by light.
- picture mold — a molding near a ceiling from which pictures can be suspended.
- poète maudit — a poet who receives insufficient recognition in his or her own time
- pollutedness — the state of being polluted
- polysulphide — any sulphide of a metal containing divalent anions in which there are chains of sulphur atoms, as in the polysulphides of sodium, Na2S2, Na2S3, Na2S4, etc
- 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.
- postgraduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.