12-letter words containing d, i, s, p, l, a
- prodigal son — a figure in a parable of Jesus (Luke 15:11–32); a wayward son who squanders his inheritance but returns home to find that his father forgives him.
- prosodically — in a prosodic manner
- pseudopodial — a temporary protrusion of the protoplasm, as of certain protozoans, usually serving as an organ of locomotion or prehension.
- rapeseed oil — a brownish-yellow oil obtained by expression from rapeseed and used chiefly as a lubricant, an illuminant, and in the manufacture of rubber substitutes.
- 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.
- seed capital — small sum invested in new business
- slap dashing — slab dashing.
- span loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
- speedballing — the practice of taking cocaine and heroin together intravenously
- spider plant — Also called ribbon plant. a plant, Chlorophytum comosum, of the lily family, native to southern Africa, that has long, narrow leaves and clusters of white flowers and is widely cultivated as a houseplant.
- spinal fluid — cerebrospinal fluid
- spiny lizard — any of numerous iguanid lizards of the genus Sceloporus, common in North and Central America, usually having keeled scales that may end in a sharp point.
- spiral-bound — having a spiral binding.
- sporadically — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- spotted tail — (Sinte-galeshka) 1833?–81, Brulé Sioux leader.
- subduplicate — of the square root of ratios
- subepidermal — just below the epidermis or skin
- sulphadoxine — an antibiotic drug of the sulphonamide group, commonly used in combination with pyrimethamine to treat malaria, and in combination with various drugs to treat certain infections
- sulphonamide — any of a class of organic compounds that are amides of sulphonic acids containing the group –SO2NH2 or a group derived from this. An important class of sulphonamides are the sulfa drugs
- superordinal — relating to the superorder
- synadelphite — an arsenate containing manganese and aluminium
- triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
- tropicalised — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- undisputable — capable of being disputed; debatable; questionable.
- unstipulated — to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of agreement (often followed by for).
- wild parsley — any of several uncultivated plants resembling the parsley in shape and structure.
- wild parsnip — a strong-smelling umbelliferous plant, Pastinaca sativa, that has an inedible root: the ancestor of the cultivated parsnip
- wild spinach — any of various plants of the genus Chenopodium, sometimes used in place of spinach.