12-letter words containing d, i, l, a, c
- middle watch — the watch from midnight until 4 a.m.
- middle-class — of, relating to, or characteristic of the middle class; bourgeois: middle-class taste; middle-class morality.
- miracle drug — wonder drug.
- misallocated — to allocate mistakenly or improperly: to misallocate resources.
- multidecadal — Involving multiple decades.
- multifaceted — Having many facets.
- multiplicand — a number to be multiplied by another.
- multitracked — (music) Recorded on multiple tracks.
- musical ride — a display by riders on horseback of manoeuvres to music, esp by members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- nautical day — a period from noon of one day to noon of the next, used in reckoning time aboard ship.
- netherlandic — Dutch (def 7).
- noncustodial — Not having custody of one’s children after a divorce.
- nondualistic — of, relating to, or of the nature of dualism.
- nonidentical — similar or alike in every way: The two cars are identical except for their license plates.
- nonmedically — In a nonmedical manner.
- nonmedicinal — Not medicinal.
- nucleic acid — any of a group of long, linear macromolecules, either DNA or various types of RNA, that carry genetic information directing all cellular functions: composed of linked nucleotides.
- nucleocapsid — the nucleic acid core and surrounding capsid of a virus; the basic viral structure.
- nucleosidase — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of nucleosides.
- nucleotidase — a biochemical catalyst that facilitates the process of hydrolyzing or splitting a nucleotide and turning it into a phosphate and a nucleoside
- occidentally — In an occidental manner.
- officialized — Simple past tense and past participle of officialize.
- old catholic — a member of any of several European churches professing to be truly Catholic but rejecting certain modern Roman Catholic doctrines, dogmas, and practices, especially the dogma of papal infallibility.
- old slavonic — Old Church Slavonic.
- oleandomycin — a macrolide antibiotic used to treat skin infections
- oligodactyly — The presence of fewer than the usual number of fingers or toes.
- optical diff — vdiff
- optical disc — Also, optical disc. Also called laser disk. a grooveless disk on which digital data, as text, music, or pictures, is stored as tiny pits in the surface and is read or replayed by a laser beam scanning the surface.
- optical disk — Also, optical disc. Also called laser disk. a grooveless disk on which digital data, as text, music, or pictures, is stored as tiny pits in the surface and is read or replayed by a laser beam scanning the surface.
- orthopedical — (American spelling) Alternative form of orthopaedical.
- overdelicate — extremely or excessively delicate: an overdelicate digestive system.
- paedophiliac — an adult who is sexually attracted to young children.
- paludicolous — inhabiting marshland
- para-medical — related to the medical profession in a secondary or supplementary capacity.
- paradisaical — paradisiacal.
- paradisiacal — of, like, or befitting paradise.
- particolored — having different colors in different areas or patches; variegated: a parti-colored dress.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- pimelic acid — a crystalline compound, C 7 H 1 2 O 4 , soluble in alcohol and ether: used in polymers and as a plasticizer.
- 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.
- 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.