12-letter words containing d, i, o, p, t, e
- pteridosperm — seed fern.
- pteroic acid — a crystalline acid found in spinach
- puddingstone — any conglomerate rock having dark-colored, rounded pebbles that are embedded in a light-colored, fine-grained matrix
- put in order — arrange correctly
- pyritohedral — of or relating to a pyritohedron
- pyritohedron — a crystal form of 12 pentagonal faces.
- radioisotope — a radioactive isotope, usually artificially produced: used in physical and biological research, therapeutics, etc.
- radiotherapy — treatment of disease by means of x-rays or of radioactive substances.
- re-deposited — to place for safekeeping or in trust, especially in a bank account: He deposited his paycheck every Friday.
- readaptation — the act of adapting.
- reciprocated — to give, feel, etc., in return.
- redemptioner — an emigrant from Europe to America who obtained passage by becoming an indentured servant for a specified period of time.
- redemptorist — a member of the “Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer,” founded by St. Alphonsus Liguori in 1732.
- reproduction — the act or process of reproducing.
- reproductive — serving to reproduce.
- respondentia — a loan upon a ship's cargo, which is repaid with interest if the ship reaches its destination, and if the ship does not, the loan is not repaid
- saddle point — a point at which a function of two variables has partial derivatives equal to zero but at which the function has neither a maximum nor a minimum value.
- safe-deposit — providing safekeeping for valuables: a safe-deposit vault.
- semideponent — (of a Latin verb) active in meaning but passive in form in the perfect tense
- speedboating — the act, practice, or sport of traveling in a speedboat.
- spermatocide — spermicide.
- spermatozoid — a motile male gamete produced in an antheridium.
- spinsterhood — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
- spit-roasted — cooked on a spit
- split second — a fraction of a second.
- spot welding — fusing metal
- spotted dick — a steamed or boiled suet pudding containing dried fruit
- spotted tail — (Sinte-galeshka) 1833?–81, Brulé Sioux leader.
- spotted wilt — a viral disease of plants, characterized by wilting and by brown, sunken spots and streaks on the stems and leaves.
- stride piano — a style of jazz piano playing in which the right hand plays the melody while the left hand plays a single bass note or octave on the strong beat and a chord on the weak beat, developed in Harlem during the 1920s, partly from ragtime piano playing.
- study period — a period of time or lesson used for studying
- table tripod — a low mount or stand for a camera.
- third person — the grammatical person used by the speaker of an utterance in referring to anyone or anything other than the speaker or the one (third person singular) or ones (third person plural) being addressed.
- time deposit — a deposit that can be withdrawn by the depositor only after giving advance notice or after an agreed period of time has elapsed.
- top dressing — tennis court
- trepidations — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- trepidatious — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
- trial period — time during which sth can be evaluated
- tropicalised — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- tropicalized — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- tutor period — (in British secondary schools) a school period for which a tutor group comes together with their tutor
- underexploit — to make insufficient use of
- unimportuned — without being forced or impelled
- unpatronized — having few or no patrons
- unproductive — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- unprohibited — to forbid (an action, activity, etc.) by authority or law: Smoking is prohibited here.
- unpropertied — owning property: the propertied class.
- well-pointed — having a point or points: a pointed arch.
- word picture — a description in words, especially one that is unusually vivid: She drew a word picture of a South Pacific sunset.