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12-letter words containing d, p, a, r

  • deckle strap — a strap on each edge of the moving web of paper on a paper-making machine that fixes the width of the paper
  • decrepitated — Simple past tense and past participle of decrepitate.
  • decrepitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decrepitate.
  • deep therapy — radiotherapy with very penetrating short-wave radiation
  • deepwaterman — a ship that goes far out to sea and into deep water
  • delayed drop — a parachute descent with the opening of the parachute delayed, usually for a predetermined period
  • delta-prolog — A Prolog extension with AND-parallelism, don't-know nondeterminism and interprocess communication using synchronous event goals and distributed backtracking.
  • demographers — Plural form of demographer.
  • demographics — data resulting from the science of demography; population statistics
  • demographies — the science of vital and social statistics, as of the births, deaths, diseases, marriages, etc., of populations.
  • demonography — a treatise on demons.
  • departmental — Departmental is used to describe the activities, responsibilities, or possessions of a department in a government, company, or other organization.
  • dephlegmator — an apparatus used for dephlegmation
  • depilatories — Plural form of depilatory.
  • depo-provera — a synthetic progestogen, C24H34O4, used to treat uterine or kidney cancer, to prevent conception for long periods, etc.
  • deportations — Plural form of deportation.
  • depositaries — Plural form of depositary.
  • depravedness — The state of being depraved; depravity.
  • depreciating — Present participle of depreciate.
  • depreciation — the reduction in value of a fixed asset due to use, obsolescence, etc
  • depreciative — Tending to depreciate (in value etc.).
  • depreciatory — tending to depreciate.
  • depredations — the act of preying upon or plundering; robbery; ravage.
  • deprivations — Plural form of deprivation.
  • deprogrammed — Simple past tense and past participle of deprogram.
  • deprogrammer — a person or thing that removes the effects of brainwashing or indoctrination
  • deprotonated — Simple past tense and past participle of deprotonate.
  • depth charge — A depth charge is a type of bomb which explodes under water and which is used especially to destroy enemy submarines.
  • dermaplaning — a cosmetic treatment, often used to treat acne scars, in which surface irregularities are surgically scraped to give the skin a smoother appearance
  • dermatophyte — any parasitic fungus that affects the skin
  • dermographia — dermatographia.
  • dermographic — dermatographia.
  • desaparecido — one who has disappeared: used, especially in Latin America, in referring to a person who has been secretly imprisoned or killed during a government's program of political suppression.
  • despairingly — given to despair or hopelessness.
  • despotocracy — the rule by a despot or despots; the power of despots
  • deuteranopia — a form of colour blindness in which there is a tendency to confuse blues and greens, and greens and reds, and in which sensitivity to green is reduced
  • deuteropathy — any abnormality that is secondary to another pathological condition.
  • diageotropic — (of a plant part) growing at a right angle to the direction of gravity.
  • diastrophism — the process of movement and deformation of the earth's crust that gives rise to large-scale features such as continents, ocean basins, and mountains
  • dicarpellary — having two carpels
  • dictatorship — Dictatorship is government by a dictator.
  • dictyopteran — any insect of the order Dictyoptera, which comprises the cockroaches and mantises
  • diet pyramid — food pyramid (def 2).
  • dinaric alps — a mountain range in W Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Serbia: connected with the main Alpine system by the Julian Alps. Highest peak: Troglav, 1913 m (6277 ft)
  • dinner party — social gathering over evening meal
  • dinner plate — a plate for holding an individual serving of the main course of a meal.
  • dinosaur pen — A traditional mainframe computer room complete with raised flooring, special power, its own ultra-heavy-duty air conditioning, and a side order of Halon fire extinguishers. See boa.
  • diplocardiac — having the right and left sides of the heart somewhat or completely divided, as in birds and mammals.
  • diprionidian — (of a graptolite) with a row of cellules or serrations on both sides
  • dipropellant — bipropellant.
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