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.