12-letter words containing d, i, a, p
- displaceable — Capable of being displaced.
- displacement — the act of displacing.
- display case — glass box, cabinet
- display hack — (graphics) A program with the same approximate purpose as a kaleidoscope: to make pretty pictures. Famous display hacks include munching squares, smoking clover, the BSD Unix "rain(6)" program, "worms(6)" on miscellaneous Unixes, and the X "kaleid(1)" program. Display hacks can also be implemented without programming by creating text files containing numerous escape sequences for interpretation by a video terminal; one notable example displayed, on any VT100, a Christmas tree with twinkling lights and a toy train circling its base. The hack value of a display hack is proportional to the aesthetic value of the images times the cleverness of the algorithm divided by the size of the code. Synonym psychedelicware.
- display pack — an empty box, etc, on a shop shelf, advertising a piece of merchandise that, due to its value or size, is not stored on the shelf. The display pack is normally taken to the till and there exchanged, on payment, for the actual item
- display type — type larger than body type, used in headings, advertisements, etc.
- displeasance — the state or cause of being displeased
- displeasedly — in a displeased manner
- disprivacied — deprived of privacy
- dispropriate — to deprive of ownership
- disputations — Plural form of disputation.
- disputatious — fond of or given to disputation; argumentative; contentious: disputatious litigants.
- disreputable — not reputable; having a bad reputation: a disreputable barroom.
- disreputably — In a disreputable manner.
- dissapointed — Misspelling of disappointed.
- dissipations — Plural form of dissipation.
- distemperate — (obsolete) immoderate.
- dodecaphonic — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
- dolphinarium — An aquarium in which dolphins are kept and trained for public entertainment.
- domino paper — a marbleized or figured decorative paper, used for wallpaper, end papers, etc., printed from wood blocks and colored by hand.
- dopaminergic — activated by or sensitive to dopamine.
- drapeability — to cover or hang with cloth or other fabric, especially in graceful folds; adorn with drapery.
- drapetomania — (dated) an overwhelming urge to run away (from home, a bad situation, responsibility, etc.).
- drinks party — a cocktail party
- dripping pan — a shallow pan placed under roasting meat to catch the dripping
- drop a brick — a block of clay hardened by drying in the sun or burning in a kiln, and used for building, paving, etc.: traditionally, in the U.S., a rectangle 2.25 × 3.75 × 8 inches (5.7 × 9.5 × 20.3 cm), red, brown, or yellow in color.
- drop curtain — a curtain that is lowered into position from the flies.
- drop initial — inset initial.
- duplex chain — a roller chain having two sets of rollers linked together, used for heavy-duty applications
- duplicatable — capable of being duplicated.
- duplications — Plural form of duplication.
- dyslipidemia — (medicine) an inbalance of lipids (especially cholesterol) in the blood; hypercholesterolemia.
- dystopianism — a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
- eden prairie — a town in SE Minnesota.
- elephantbird — Alternative form of elephant bird.
- encaptivated — Simple past tense and past participle of encaptivate.
- enciclopedia — Misspelling of encyclopedia.
- encyclopedia — An encyclopedia is a book or set of books in which facts about many different subjects or about one particular subject are arranged for reference, usually in alphabetical order.
- endoparasite — A parasite, such as a tapeworm, that lives inside its host.
- ephemeridian — relating to ephemera
- epicycloidal — Of or pertaining to an epicycloid.
- epidemically — In the manner of an epidemic.
- epidiascopes — Plural form of epidiascope.
- episodically — In an episodic manner; in episodes.
- exopeptidase — any proteolytic enzyme, such as erepsin, that acts on the terminal bonds in a peptide chain
- expediential — Governed by expediency; seeking advantage.
- expeditation — the act of expeditating a dog
- expropriated — Simple past tense and past participle of expropriate.
- feldspathoid — Also, feldspathoidal. of or relating to a group of minerals similar in chemical composition to certain feldspars except for a lower silica content.
- food pyramid — successive levels of predation in a food chain represented schematically as a pyramid because upper levels normally consist of decreasing numbers of larger predators.