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

  • outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
  • paint bridge — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
  • palindromist — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
  • panty girdle — women's control pants
  • paradoxidian — relating to the genus Paradoxides
  • paradoxurine — relating to the palm civet
  • parascending — parasailing
  • parasphenoid — a bone next to the sphenoid bone in the skull of some animals
  • pearl diving — the act of diving for the precious gems pearls
  • pediatrician — a physician who specializes in pediatrics.
  • pencil cedar — the red cedar, Juniperus virginiana, or its wood.
  • pentacrinoid — a larval crinoid resembling members of the genus Pentacrinus
  • peroxidation — a type of reaction in which oxygen atoms are formed leading to the production of peroxides. It is stimulated in the body by certain toxins and infections
  • personalised — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
  • personalized — customized
  • philandering — (of a man) to make love with a woman one cannot or will not marry; carry on flirtations.
  • pig islander — a New Zealander
  • pindaric ode — an ode consisting of several units, each of which is composed of a strophe and an antistrophe of identical form followed by a contrasting epode.
  • 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.
  • play reading — the activity when a group of people read the parts of a play
  • playing card — one of the conventional set of 52 cards in four suits, as diamonds, hearts, spades, and clubs, used in playing various games of chance and skill.
  • point spread — a betting device, established by oddsmakers and used to attract bettors for uneven competitions, indicating the estimated number of points by which a stronger team can be expected to defeat a weaker team, the point spread being added to the weaker team's actual points in the game and this new figure then compared to the stronger team's points to determine winning bets.
  • point-spread — a betting device, established by oddsmakers and used to attract bettors for uneven competitions, indicating the estimated number of points by which a stronger team can be expected to defeat a weaker team, the point spread being added to the weaker team's actual points in the game and this new figure then compared to the stronger team's points to determine winning bets.
  • pointed arch — an arch having a pointed apex.
  • pompeian red — a dull, grayish red.
  • postmeridian — of or relating to the afternoon.
  • postprandial — after a meal, especially after dinner: postprandial oratory; a postprandial brandy.
  • pre-assigned — Law. to transfer: to assign a contract.
  • pre-prandial — You use pre-prandial to refer to things you do or have before a meal.
  • preadmission — (in a reciprocating engine) admission of steam or the like to the head of the cylinder near the end of the stroke, as to cushion the force of the stroke or to allow full pressure at the beginning of the return stroke.
  • precedential — of the nature of or constituting a precedent.
  • predesignate — to designate beforehand.
  • predestinate — Theology. to foreordain by divine decree or purpose.
  • prediagnosis — Medicine/Medical. the process of determining by examination the nature and circumstances of a diseased condition. the decision reached from such an examination. Abbreviation: Dx.
  • predominance — the state, condition, or quality of being predominant: the predominance of the rich over the poor.
  • preordinance — an authoritative rule or law; a decree or command.
  • presidential — of or relating to a president or presidency.
  • prison guard — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
  • privatdocent — (in German and certain other universities) a private teacher or lecturer recognized by the university but receiving no compensation from it, being remunerated by fees.
  • privatdozent — (in German and certain other universities) a private teacher or lecturer recognized by the university but receiving no compensation from it, being remunerated by fees.
  • proboscidean — pertaining to or resembling a proboscis.
  • prodigal son — a figure in a parable of Jesus (Luke 15:11–32); a wayward son who squanders his inheritance but returns home to find that his father forgives him.
  • productional — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
  • progradation — seaward growth of a beach, delta, fan, etc., by progressive deposition of sediment by rivers or shoreline processes.
  • prolog-linda — 1. Prolog extended with Linda-style parallelism. Proc 4th Australian Conf on Artif Intell. 2. Neil MacDonald, U Edinburgh 1989. Another Prolog extended with Linda, implemented on a Computing Surface.
  • proofreading — correction of text
  • propagandism — the art, system, or use of propaganda
  • propagandist — a person involved in producing or spreading propaganda.
  • propagandize — to propagate or publicize (principles, dogma, etc.) by means of propaganda.
  • propanedioic — malonic.
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