12-letter words containing d, r, e, s, i, l
- personalized — customized
- pig islander — a New Zealander
- plaid screen — [XEROX PARC] A "special effect" that occurs when certain kinds of memory smashes overwrite the control blocks or image memory of a bit-mapped display. The term "salt and pepper" may refer to a different pattern of similar origin. Though the term as coined at PARC refers to the result of an error, some of the X demos induce plaid-screen effects deliberately as a display hack.
- 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.
- poodle skirt — 1950s-style woman's circular skirt
- postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
- postdelivery — of, relating to, or occurring after a delivery
- poster child — a child appearing on a poster for a charitable organization.
- prednisolone — a synthetic glucocorticoid, C 2 1 H 2 8 O 5 , used in various forms to treat inflammation and allergies and in the treatment of acute leukemia, Hodgkin's disease, and lymphomas.
- prepublished — to publish in advance of a scheduled date.
- presidential — of or relating to a president or presidency.
- pridefulness — a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
- purblindness — the state of being purblind
- rapeseed oil — a brownish-yellow oil obtained by expression from rapeseed and used chiefly as a lubricant, an illuminant, and in the manufacture of rubber substitutes.
- re-solicited — to seek for (something) by entreaty, earnest or respectful request, formal application, etc.: He solicited aid from the minister.
- reading list — a list of sources (recommended by a teacher or university lecturer) which provide additional or background information on a subject being studied
- reclassified — to classify anew.
- red squirrel — a reddish squirrel, Tamiasciurus hudsonicus, of North America.
- relinquished — to renounce or surrender (a possession, right, etc.): to relinquish the throne.
- remedilessly — in a remediless manner, beyond remedy
- rescheduling — the act of changing the time, date, or schedule of
- resoundingly — making an echoing sound: a resounding thud.
- rhode island — US state
- rijksdaalder — a cupronickel or silver coin of the Netherlands, equal to 2½ guilders.
- rimmed steel — a low-carbon steel containing enough iron oxide so that there is continuous generation of carbon monoxide during solidification.
- rosewood oil — a fragrant oil extracted from the wood of a South American tree, Aniba rosaeodora, and used in the manufacture of perfumes.
- rutlandshire — a former county, now part of Leicestershire, in central England.
- salamandrine — any tailed amphibian of the order Caudata, having a soft, moist, scaleless skin, typically aquatic as a larva and semiterrestrial as an adult: several species are endangered.
- scalar field — a region with a number assigned at each point.
- sclerodermic — of or relating to a scleroderm or to sclerodermia; hard-skinned
- scolopendrid — any myriapod of the order Scolopendrida, including many large, poisonous centipedes.
- self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
- self-driving — (of a machine) operating without the guidance of a human.
- self-reading — the action or practice of a person who reads.
- semicylinder — half of a cylinder divided lengthwise.
- serial bonds — Serial bonds are bonds that are issued at the same time but have staggered maturity dates.
- serous fluid — any of various clear, watery fluids in the body.
- shared logic — the sharing of a central processing unit and associated software among several terminals
- shareholding — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
- shepherdling — a young or little shepherd
- shirt-tailed — (of a garment) having a shirt-tail
- shirtsleeved — not wearing a jacket or coat
- side-wheeler — having a paddle wheel on each side, as a steamboat.
- sidereal day — the interval between two successive passages of the vernal equinox over the meridian, being about four minutes shorter than a mean solar day.
- siderophilic — having characteristics of siderophile
- sidesplitter — something that is uproariously funny, as a joke or a situation.
- silver medal — a medal, traditionally of silver or silver in color, awarded to a person or team finishing second in a competition, meet, or tournament.
- silver mound — a perennial Japanese herb, Artemisia schmidtiana, having silver-green leaves forming a moundlike shape.
- six-cylinder — having six chambers in a reciprocating internal-combustion engine, pump, or compressor within which the pistons move