12-letter words containing d, i, s, p, r
- ex-president — a former chief executive or head of state of a republic
- expenditures — Plural form of expenditure.
- extemporised — Simple past tense and past participle of extemporise.
- field sports — sports carried on in the open countryside, such as hunting, shooting, or fishing
- 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.
- gypsy driver — the driver of a gypsy cab
- handicappers — Plural form of handicapper.
- harpsichords — Plural form of harpsichord.
- 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.
- his-lordship — (often initial capital letter) a term of respect used when speaking of or to certain noblemen (usually preceded by his or your).
- horsewhipped — Simple past tense and past participle of horsewhip.
- house spider — any largish dark spider of the genus Tegenaria that is common in houses, such as the cardinal spider
- hydrophilous — pollinated by the agency of water.
- hydrosalpinx — A distally blocked Fallopian tube filled with serous or clear fluid.
- hydrotropism — oriented growth in response to water.
- hyperbolised — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- hyperboloids — Plural form of hyperboloid.
- hyperidrosis — excessive or abnormal sweating
- hypohidrosis — abnormally diminished sweating.
- iceland spar — a transparent variety of calcite that is double-refracting and is used as a polarizer.
- imparadising — Present participle of imparadise.
- 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.
- impoverished — reduced to poverty.
- imprest fund — a fund of petty cash.
- 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.
- 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.
- kindred-ship — a person's relatives collectively; kinfolk; kin.
- lady-slipper — cypripedium
- ledger strip — a piece attached to the face of a beam at the bottom as a support for the ends of joists.
- lepidosirens — Plural form of lepidosiren.
- ligniperdous — (of insects) wood-destroying
- limp-wristed — Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. effeminate.
- low-spirited — depressed; dejected: He is feeling rather low-spirited today.
- madreporites — Plural form of madreporite.
- manspreading — the practice by a male passenger on public transport of sitting with his legs wide apart, so denying space to passengers beside him
- meanspirited — petty; small-minded; ungenerous: a meanspirited man, unwilling to forgive.
- media person — a person who works in the mass media
- median strip — a paved, planted, or landscaped strip in the center of a highway that separates lanes of traffic going in opposite directions.
- mediatorship — the position of a mediator