12-letter words containing d, p, a, r
- campo grande — a city in SW Brazil, capital of Mato Grosso do Sul state on the São Paulo–Corumbá railway: market centre. Pop: 746 000 (2005 est)
- campodeiform — resembling insects of the genus Campodea
- candy stripe — a pattern of bright stripes of one color against a plain background, used chiefly in fabrics.
- cape colored — a South African of mixed European and African or Malayan ancestry.
- cape nordkyn — a cape in N Norway: the northernmost point of the European mainland
- cape verdean — of or relating to Cape Verde or its inhabitants
- cape-froward — Cape, a cape in S Chile, on the Strait of Magellan: southernmost point of mainland South America.
- capraldehyde — (chemistry) decanal.
- caproic acid — oily acid found in milk
- captive-bred — bred in captivity
- cardinalship — The office (or term of office) of a cardinal.
- cardiographs — Plural form of cardiograph.
- cardiography — electrocardiograph.
- cardiophobia — An inordinate fear of heart disease.
- cardioplegia — deliberate arrest of the action of the heart, as by hypothermia or the injection of chemicals, to enable complex heart surgery to be carried out
- carisoprodol — a crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 12 H 24 N 2 O 4 , used as a muscle relaxant.
- carpetbagged — Simple past tense and past participle of carpetbag.
- catadioptric — involving a combination of reflecting and refracting components
- cataphracted — covered with an armor of horny or bony plates or scales.
- cathodograph — a picture taken using cathode rays
- cedar rapids — a city in the US, in E Iowa. Pop: 122 542 (2003 est)
- chandragupta — Greek name Sandracottos. died ?297 bc, ruler of N India, who founded the Maurya dynasty (325) and defeated Seleucus (?305)
- chapter head — printed material appearing before and usually above the text of a chapter, as a title, number, quotation, etc.
- cheddar pink — a low, mat-forming European plant, Dianthus gratianopolitanus, of the pink family, having solitary, fragrant, rose-colored flowers with fringed petals.
- chorus pedal — an electronic device that creates the effect of more than one sound from a single source by combining a short delay with slight deviations in pitch
- cigar-shaped — resembling a cigar in shape
- cinder patch — a defect on steel caused by the accidental picking up of matter, as from the bottom of a soaking pit.
- cladocarpous — pleurocarpous.
- cladosporium — any of the species of fungi in the genus Cladosporium
- clapboarding — Present participle of clapboard.
- clapperboard — A clapperboard consists of two pieces of wood that are connected by a hinge and hit together before each scene when making a film, to make it easier to match the sound and pictures of different scenes.
- coated paper — a paper whose surface has been treated to take halftone impressions or color printing
- compass card — a compass in the form of a card that rotates so that "0°" or "North" points to magnetic north
- copy-reading — to work on (copy) as a copyreader.
- counterplead — to plead the opposite of
- cryptomonads — Plural form of cryptomonad.
- cupid's dart — blue succory.
- cupid's-dart — blue succory.
- d'anjou pear — Anjou pear
- d-s particle — a positively charged meson having a mass 3852 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 4.7 X 10 -13 seconds.
- daguerrotype — Misspelling of daguerreotype.
- damper pedal — a pedal on a piano that when depressed with the foot raises the dampers and permits the strings to vibrate and sustain the tone.
- danger point — the point at which something ceases to be safe
- daphnephoria — an ancient Greek festival in honor of Apollo.
- darwin tulip — a class of tulips having a tall stem and broad, bright-colored flowers with a flat, rectangular base.
- data capture — any process for converting information into a form that can be handled by a computer
- day-tripping — to travel as a day-tripper.
- deaspiration — the act of deaspirating
- death spiral — a period of continuous deterioration that leads ultimately to catastrophic failure or destruction
- decipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.