12-letter words containing d, o, p, e, y
- glycerolipid — (organic chemistry) Any lipid based on glycerol.
- glycopeptide — any of a group of complex proteins, as mucin, containing a carbohydrate combined with a simple protein.
- god's plenty — an abundant or overabundant quantity.
- gold therapy — administration of gold salts as a treatment for disease, especially rheumatoid arthritis.
- golden syrup — treacle (def 2b).
- handypersons — Plural form of handyperson.
- hedge hyssop — any plant of the genus Gratiola, a bitter herb used medicinally.
- heteroploidy — (genetics) The state of being heteroploid.
- horned poppy — any of several Eurasian papaveraceous plants of the genera Glaucium and Roemeria, having large brightly coloured flowers and long curved seed capsules
- hydnocarpate — a salt or ester of hydnocarpic acid.
- hydrocephaly — an accumulation of serous fluid within the cranium, especially in infancy, due to obstruction of the movement of cerebrospinal fluid, often causing great enlargement of the head; water on the brain.
- hydrographer — the science of the measurement, description, and mapping of the surface waters of the earth, with special reference to their use for navigation.
- hydrophilite — a white mineral consisting of potassium and calcium
- hydrotherapy — the branch of therapeutics that deals with the curative use of water.
- hyperbolised — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- hyperbolized — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperbolize.
- hyperboloids — Plural form of hyperboloid.
- hyperidrosis — excessive or abnormal sweating
- hyperthyroid — of, relating to, or having hyperthyroidism.
- hypochloride — Misspelling of hypochlorite.
- 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.
- hypothecated — Simple past tense and past participle of hypothecate.
- hypothesised — to form a hypothesis.
- hypothesized — Simple past tense and past participle of hypothesize.
- jeopardously — with risk or peril
- joe-pye weed — Also called purple boneset. a tall composite weed, Eupatorium purpureum, of North America, having clusters of pinkish or purple flowers.
- lampadedromy — (in ancient Greece) a relay race in which the runners or riders carried a lighted torch
- leopard lily — a tall lily, Lilium pardalinum, of California, having drooping, orange-red flowers with purple speckles, a yellow base, and recurved petal tips.
- lymphadenoma — an enlarged lymph node.
- money spider — any of certain small shiny brownish spiders of the family Linyphiidae
- nordkyn cape — Cape, a cape in N Norway, E of North Cape: northernmost point of the European mainland.
- pachydermous — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
- parahydrogen — the form of molecular hydrogen in which the nuclei of the two hydrogen atoms contained in the molecule have spins in opposite directions.
- payment bond — See under contract bond.
- peabody bird — the white-throated sparrow.
- pedantocracy — rule by pedants; a system of government by pedants
- pentahydroxy — (of a molecule) containing five hydroxyl groups.
- peptidolytic — causing the hydrolysis of peptides.
- perfidiously — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- periodically — recurring at intervals of time: periodic revivals of an interest in handicrafts.
- phytonadione — vitamin K1.
- pidyon haben — the rite of relieving the first male child born to parents not descended from Aaron or Levi of certain religious obligations by redeeming him from a member of the priestly class, celebrated 30 days after the child's birth.
- poddy-dodger — a cattle thief who steals unbranded calves
- policyholder — the individual or firm in whose name an insurance policy is written; an insured.
- polydisperse — of or noting a sol that contains particles of different sizes.
- polyhedrosis — an often fatal disease of certain insect larvae or decapod crustaceans, caused by viruses containing DNA.
- polypeptidic — relating to a polypeptide
- polysulphide — any sulphide of a metal containing divalent anions in which there are chains of sulphur atoms, as in the polysulphides of sodium, Na2S2, Na2S3, Na2S4, etc