12-letter words containing d, e, p, s, a, c
- iceland spar — a transparent variety of calcite that is double-refracting and is used as a polarizer.
- incapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of incapsulate.
- kaleidoscope — an optical instrument in which bits of glass, held loosely at the end of a rotating tube, are shown in continually changing symmetrical forms by reflection in two or more mirrors set at angles to each other.
- lapidescence — a lapidescent quality or condition
- mass-produce — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- muckspreader — a machine for spreading manure over farmland
- normed space — any vector space on which a norm is defined.
- nucleocapsid — the nucleic acid core and surrounding capsid of a virus; the basic viral structure.
- octapeptides — Plural form of octapeptide.
- orthopaedics — (used with a singular verb) the medical specialty concerned with correction of deformities or functional impairments of the skeletal system, especially the extremities and the spine, and associated structures, as muscles and ligaments.
- pachydermous — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
- paedodontics — the branch of dentistry that focuses on the care of children's teeth
- pandanaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Pandanaceae, an Old World tropical family of monocotyledonous plants including the screw pines
- parascending — parasailing
- parasiticide — an agent or preparation that destroys parasites.
- peccadilloes — a very minor or slight sin or offense; a trifling fault.
- pericarditis — inflammation of the pericardium.
- plaid screen — [XEROX PARC] A "special effect" that occurs when certain kinds of memory smashes overwrite the control blocks or image memory of a bit-mapped display. The term "salt and pepper" may refer to a different pattern of similar origin. Though the term as coined at PARC refers to the result of an error, some of the X demos induce plaid-screen effects deliberately as a display hack.
- plattdeutsch — the Low German vernacular dialects spoken in northern Germany.
- postaccident — occurring after an accident
- postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
- postcardware — Shareware that borders on freeware, in that the author requests only that satisfied users send a postcard of their home town or something. (This practice, silly as it might seem, serves to remind users that they are otherwise getting something for nothing, and may also be psychologically related to real estate "sales" in which $1 changes hands just to keep the transaction from being a gift.)
- predischarge — of or pertaining to the period prior to discharge, esp prior to discharge from hospital or from employment
- proboscidate — having a proboscis.
- proboscidean — pertaining to or resembling a proboscis.
- process data — data processing
- producer gas — a mixture of carbon monoxide and nitrogen produced by passing air over hot coke, used mainly as a fuel
- promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
- 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.
- puy de sancy — a mountain in S central France: highest peak of the Monts Dore. Height: 1886 m (6188 ft)
- re-landscape — a section or expanse of rural scenery, usually extensive, that can be seen from a single viewpoint.
- sapindaceous — belonging to the Sapindaceae, the soapberry family of plants.
- scrap dealer — a person who deals in scrap
- scraperboard — scratchboard.
- seed capital — small sum invested in new business
- seed capsule — the part of a fruit enclosing the seeds; pericarp
- send packing — to dismiss peremptorily
- shadow price — the calculated price of a good or service for which no market price exists
- speed camera — device that detects speeding traffic
- spermaticide — spermicide.
- spermatocide — spermicide.
- spotted cavy — paca.
- stapedectomy — a microsurgical procedure to relieve deafness by replacing the stapes of the ear with a prosthetic device.
- subduplicate — of the square root of ratios
- suicide pact — an agreement between two or more people to commit suicide together.
- supercharged — equipped with a supercharger.
- the pandects — a digest of Roman civil law in fifty books, compiled for the emperor Justinian in the 6th cent. a.d.; the Digest
- tricuspidate — having three cusps or flaps.
- tropicalised — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.