12-letter words containing d, i, a, p
- fortified pa — a Māori hilltop dwelling with trenches and palisades for defensive occupation
- fried potato — Fried potatoes are pieces of potato cooked in oil or fat.
- giant powder — dynamite composed of nitroglycerin and kieselguhr.
- gift-wrapped — A gift-wrapped present is wrapped in pretty paper.
- gold-plating — the incorporation of costly and unnecessary features or refinements into a product or structure.
- gonadotropic — pertaining to substances formed in the anterior pituitary gland that affect the activity of the ovary or testis.
- gonadotropin — a gonadotropic substance.
- grace period — a period of time after a payment becomes due, as of a loan or life-insurance premium, before one is subject to penalties or late charges or before the loan or policy is canceled.
- graduateship — the time or condition of being a graduate
- grand rapids — a city in SW Michigan: furniture factories.
- guardianship — the position and responsibilities of a guardian, especially toward a ward.
- hairpin bend — A hairpin bend or a hairpin is a very sharp bend in a road, where the road turns back in the opposite direction.
- hand-painted — painted by a person rather than a machine
- hand-picking — to pick by hand.
- hand-printed — (of numbers, letters, or designs) printed, or put on a surface, by hand rather than by machine
- handclapping — The activity of clapping hands, especially as part of a musical performance.
- handicapable — (politically correct) disabled or handicapped.
- handicappeds — Plural form of handicapped.
- handicappers — Plural form of handicapper.
- handicapping — Present participle of handicap.
- handies peak — a peak in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,048 feet (4285 meters).
- happy medium — a course of action or condition that is between two extremes: Our climate is a happy medium between hot and cold.
- harpsichords — Plural form of harpsichord.
- heliographed — Simple past tense and past participle of heliograph.
- helping hand — aid; assistance: to give the destitute a helping hand.
- hepadnavirus — Any member of the virus family Hepadnaviridae, capable of causing liver infections in humans and animals.
- hiding place — location where sb is concealed
- hit pay dirt — to discover a source of wealth, success, etc.
- holiday camp — In Britain, a holiday camp is a place which provides holiday accommodation and entertainment for large numbers of people.
- hope diamond — a sapphire-blue Indian diamond, the largest blue diamond in the world, weighing 44.5 carats and supposedly cut from a bigger diamond that was once part of the French crown jewels: now in the Smithsonian Institution.
- hospital bed — a bed having side rails that can be raised or lowered and a mattress base in three jointed sections so that the head, foot, or middle may be raised by a crank or motor, allowing a patient to lie in various positions, as a therapeutic aid or for comfort.
- hospitalised — to place in a hospital for medical care or observation: The doctor hospitalized grandfather as soon as she checked his heart.
- hospitalized — to place in a hospital for medical care or observation: The doctor hospitalized grandfather as soon as she checked his heart.
- hydrographic — the science of the measurement, description, and mapping of the surface waters of the earth, with special reference to their use for navigation.
- hydroplaning — a seaplane.
- hydrosalpinx — A distally blocked Fallopian tube filled with serous or clear fluid.
- hyperacidity — excessive acidity, as of the gastric juice.
- hyperdynamic — (physiology) Describing an increase in both blood pressure and pulse pressure.
- hypermediacy — Hypermedia literacy; the state of being conversant with hypermedia technologies.
- hypochondria — Also, hypochondriasis [hahy-poh-kuh n-drahy-uh-sis] /ˌhaɪ poʊ kənˈdraɪ ə sɪs/ (Show IPA). Psychiatry. an excessive preoccupation with one's health, usually focusing on some particular symptom, as cardiac or gastric problems.
- hypogonadism — diminished hormonal or reproductive functioning in the testes or the ovaries.
- hypostasised — to assume the reality of (an idea, proposition, etc.); hypostatize.
- hypostatised — to treat or regard (a concept, idea, etc.) as a distinct substance or reality.
- hypostatized — Simple past tense and past participle of hypostatize.
- iceland spar — a transparent variety of calcite that is double-refracting and is used as a polarizer.
- idiopathical — Alternative form of idiopathic.
- ill-prepared — badly or inadequately prepared or trained: ill-prepared job applicants; The hotel was ill-prepared for so many guests.
- imidacloprid — The insecticide 1-(6-chloro-3-pyridylmethyl)-N-nitroimidazolidin-2-ylideneamine used to control fleas in domestic pets.
- imparadising — Present participle of imparadise.
- impardonable — (obsolete) unpardonable.