12-letter words containing d, o, p, a
- up and about — to, toward, or in a more elevated position: to climb up to the top of a ladder.
- up and doing — busy; active
- up-and-comer — likely to succeed; bright and industrious: an up-and-coming young executive.
- van der post — Sir Laurens (Jan). 1906–96, South African writer and traveller. His works include the travel books Venture to the Interior (1952), The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958), and Testament to the Bushmen (1984) and the novels The Hunter and the Whale (1967) and The Admiral's Baby (1996)
- velocipedean — someone who rides a velocipede
- video piracy — the unauthorized or prohibited use of audio-visual works covered by copyright law, in a way that violates one of the copyright owner's exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works
- video player — VCR: videotape recorder
- videographer — a person who makes films with a video camera.
- waterproofed — Having been made waterproof.
- widow's peak — a point formed in the hairline in the middle of the forehead.
- wild apricot — apricot (def 4).
- woolly aphid — any plant louse of the family Aphididae, characterized by a waxy secretion that appears like a jumbled mass of fine, curly, white cottony or woolly threads, as Eriosoma lanigerum (woolly apple aphid or American blight) and Prociphilus tessellatus (woolly alder aphid)
- worlds apart — in different environments