12-letter words containing d, e, s, p, c, t
- plattdeutsch — the Low German vernacular dialects spoken in northern Germany.
- pocket-sized — If you describe something as pocket-sized, you approve of it because it is small enough to fit in your pocket.
- 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.)
- poster child — a child appearing on a poster for a charitable organization.
- powder chest — a small wooden box containing a charge of powder, old nails, scrap iron, etc., formerly secured over the side of a ship and exploded on the attempt of an enemy to board.
- pre-discount — to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.): All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at two percent.
- presentenced — Grammar. a grammatical unit of one or more words that expresses an independent statement, question, request, command, exclamation, etc., and that typically has a subject as well as a predicate, as in John is here. or Is John here? In print or writing, a sentence typically begins with a capital letter and ends with appropriate punctuation; in speech it displays recognizable, communicative intonation patterns and is often marked by preceding and following pauses.
- proboscidate — having a proboscis.
- process data — data processing
- promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
- pseudovector — a variable quantity, such as angular momentum, that has magnitude and orientation with respect to an axis. The components are even functions of the coordinates
- quickstepped — Simple past tense and past participle of quickstep.
- secchi depth — the depth at which a Secchi disk is no longer visible from the surface of ocean water.
- seed capital — small sum invested in new business
- spermaticide — spermicide.
- spermatocide — spermicide.
- split second — a fraction of a second.
- spotted cavy — paca.
- spotted dick — a steamed or boiled suet pudding containing dried fruit
- 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.
- superconduct — to conduct electricity very efficiently or without resistance, to act as a superconductor
- 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.
- under-script — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
- undispatched — not dispatched; not delivered or sent out
- unpersecuted — not persecuted
- unsculptured — not resembling a sculpture
- unspectacled — lacking spectacles
- unsyncopated — marked by syncopation: syncopated rhythm.
- whipstitched — Simple past tense and past participle of whipstitch.
- zeptoseconds — Plural form of zeptosecond.