12-letter words containing d, e, p, u
- jeopardously — with risk or peril
- jeu d'esprit — a witticism.
- jurisprudent — versed in jurisprudence.
- kidney punch — an illegal punch in the lower back.
- 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.
- liverpudlian — a seaport in Merseyside, in W England, on the Mersey estuary.
- 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.
- medium strip — median strip.
- middle stump — the stump inside of the leg stump and the off stump; the second of the three stumps of a wicket.
- 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.
- muckspreader — a machine for spreading manure over farmland
- 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.
- packed lunch — A packed lunch is food, for example sandwiches, which you take to work, to school, or on a trip and eat as your lunch.
- palace guard — the security force protecting a palace.
- paludamentum — a cloak worn by officials and military officers of ancient Rome, especially during wartime.
- 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
- pasture land — grassland used for grazing
- 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
- pediculicide — Also, pediculicidal. destructive to lice.
- pedunculated — having a peduncle.
- pension fund — a fund created and maintained, as by a corporation, to provide benefits under a pension plan.
- peradventure — chance, doubt, or uncertainty.
- perfidiously — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- periodontium — the bone, connective tissue, and gum surrounding and supporting a tooth.
- pfund series — a series of lines in the infrared spectrum of hydrogen.
- philadelphus — (Philadelphus) king of Pergamum c159–138 b.c.
- phosphureted — combined with phosphorus, especially in its lowest valence state.