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12-letter words containing d, i, a, c

  • para-medical — related to the medical profession in a secondary or supplementary capacity.
  • paradigmatic — of or relating to a paradigm.
  • paradisaical — paradisiacal.
  • paradisiacal — of, like, or befitting paradise.
  • parascending — parasailing
  • parasiticide — an agent or preparation that destroys parasites.
  • participated — to take or have a part or share, as with others; partake; share (usually followed by in): to participate in profits; to participate in a play.
  • particolored — having different colors in different areas or patches; variegated: a parti-colored dress.
  • pas d'action — a dramatic, pantomimic dance sequence serving to advance the plot.
  • pascal-linda — Ian Flockhart, U Edinburgh, 1991. Under development.
  • peccadilloes — a very minor or slight sin or offense; a trifling fault.
  • pedantically — ostentatious in one's learning.
  • pediatrician — a physician who specializes in pediatrics.
  • pedicellaria — one of the minute pincerlike structures common to starfish and sea urchins, used for cleaning and to capture tiny prey.
  • pediculation — the act or process of growing a stalk or pedicle
  • pencil cedar — the red cedar, Juniperus virginiana, or its wood.
  • pentacrinoid — a larval crinoid resembling members of the genus Pentacrinus
  • pericarditis — inflammation of the pericardium.
  • periodic law — the law that the properties of the elements are periodic functions of their atomic numbers.
  • periodically — recurring at intervals of time: periodic revivals of an interest in handicrafts.
  • phosphatidic — of or relating to a phosphatide
  • photodynamic — the science dealing with light and its effects on living organisms.
  • pick and mix — a selection of sweets from which the customer can choose, paid for by weight
  • picture card — face card
  • pimelic acid — a crystalline compound, C 7 H 1 2 O 4 , soluble in alcohol and ether: used in polymers and as a plasticizer.
  • pindaric ode — an ode consisting of several units, each of which is composed of a strophe and an antistrophe of identical form followed by a contrasting epode.
  • ping command — ping
  • piperic acid — a saturated organic acid (C12H10O4), derived from plants in the pepper family, that forms yellow crystals and can be oxidized to produce piperonal
  • 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.
  • playing card — one of the conventional set of 52 cards in four suits, as diamonds, hearts, spades, and clubs, used in playing various games of chance and skill.
  • pointed arch — an arch having a pointed apex.
  • poland china — one of an American breed of black hogs having white markings.
  • pole dancing — Pole dancing is a type of entertainment in a bar or club in which a woman who is wearing very few clothes dances around a pole in a sexy way.
  • postaccident — occurring after an accident
  • postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
  • precedential — of the nature of or constituting a precedent.
  • precipitated — to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis.
  • predischarge — of or pertaining to the period prior to discharge, esp prior to discharge from hospital or from employment
  • predominance — the state, condition, or quality of being predominant: the predominance of the rich over the poor.
  • premedicated — to treat with medicine or medicaments.
  • preordinance — an authoritative rule or law; a decree or command.
  • privatdocent — (in German and certain other universities) a private teacher or lecturer recognized by the university but receiving no compensation from it, being remunerated by fees.
  • proboscidate — having a proboscis.
  • proboscidean — pertaining to or resembling a proboscis.
  • productional — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
  • promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
  • propaedeutic — pertaining to or of the nature of preliminary instruction.
  • propanedioic — malonic.
  • prosodically — in a prosodic manner
  • prussic acid — weakly acidic extremely poisonous aqueous solution of hydrogen cyanide
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