12-letter words containing d, i, s, p, e
- field sports — sports carried on in the open countryside, such as hunting, shooting, or fishing
- graduateship — the time or condition of being a graduate
- gypsy driver — the driver of a gypsy cab
- handicappeds — Plural form of handicapped.
- handicappers — Plural form of handicapper.
- handies peak — a peak in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,048 feet (4285 meters).
- hemispheroid — half of a spheroid.
- hepadnavirus — Any member of the virus family Hepadnaviridae, capable of causing liver infections in humans and animals.
- hidropoiesis — the production of sweat.
- horsewhipped — Simple past tense and past participle of horsewhip.
- 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.
- house spider — any largish dark spider of the genus Tegenaria that is common in houses, such as the cardinal spider
- hyperbolised — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- hyperboloids — Plural form of hyperboloid.
- hyperidrosis — excessive or abnormal sweating
- 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.
- hypothesised — to form a hypothesis.
- hypothesized — Simple past tense and past participle of hypothesize.
- iceland spar — a transparent variety of calcite that is double-refracting and is used as a polarizer.
- ill-disposed — unfriendly, unsympathetic, or having a negative attitude, as toward another person or an idea.
- imperialised — Simple past tense and past participle of imperialise.
- impersonated — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
- impoundments — Plural form of impoundment.
- impoverished — reduced to poverty.
- imprest fund — a fund of petty cash.
- impudentness — Quality of being impudent.
- in deep shit — excrement; feces.
- in spadefuls — in an extreme or emphatic way
- in the dumps — a depressed state of mind (usually preceded by in the): to be in the dumps over money problems.
- incapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of incapsulate.
- independents — Plural form of independent.
- indiscipline — lack of discipline or control: a campus problem of student indiscipline.
- indisposable — Not disposable.
- indisputable — not disputable or deniable; uncontestable. indisputable evidence.
- interspersed — to scatter here and there or place at intervals among other things: to intersperse flowers among shrubs.
- interspliced — Simple past tense and past participle of intersplice.
- intrepidness — resolutely fearless; dauntless: an intrepid explorer.
- introspected — Simple past tense and past participle of introspect.
- ipsedixitism — An unfounded, false and dogmatic assertion.
- isopropoxide — (chemistry) The univalent anion derived from isopropanol by removal of the hydroxy hydrogen atom; and salt containing this anion.
- jeopardising — Present participle of jeopardise.
- jeu d'esprit — a witticism.
- jurisprudent — versed in jurisprudence.
- kaleidoscope — an optical instrument in which bits of glass, held loosely at the end of a rotating tube, are shown in continually changing symmetrical forms by reflection in two or more mirrors set at angles to each other.
- kindred-ship — a person's relatives collectively; kinfolk; kin.
- lady-slipper — cypripedium