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

  • sandpapering — the act or process of polishing or grinding a surface with or as if with sandpaper
  • scolopendrid — any myriapod of the order Scolopendrida, including many large, poisonous centipedes.
  • scouring pad — a small pad, as of steel wool or plastic mesh, used for scouring pots, pans, etc.
  • scratchpad i — (language)   A general-purpose language originally for interactive symbolic mathematics by Richard Jenks, Barry Trager, Stephen M. Watt and Robert S. Sutor of IBM Research, ca 1971. It features abstract parametrised data types, multiple inheritance and polymorphism. There were implementations for VM/CMS and AIX.
  • scsi adaptor — (hardware)   (Or "host adaptor") A device that communicates between a computer and its SCSI peripherals. The SCSI adaptor is usually assigned SCSI ID 7. It is often a separate card that is connected to the computer's bus (e.g. PCI, ISA, PCMCIA) though increasinly, SCSI adaptors are built in to the motherboard. Apart from being cheaper, busses like PCI are too slow to keep up with the newer SCSI standards like Ultra SCSI and Ultra-Wide SCSI. There are several varieties of SCSI (and their connectors) and an adaptor will not support them all. The performance of SCSI devices is limited by the speed of the SCSI adaptor and its connection to the computer. An adaptor that plugs into a parallel port is unlikely to be as fast as one incorporated into a motherboard. Fast adaptors use DMA or bus mastering. Some SCSI adaptors include a BIOS to allow PCs to boot from a SCSI hard disk, if their own BIOS supports it. Note that it is not a "SCSI controller" - it does not control the devices, and "SCSI interface" is redundant - the "I" of "SCSI" stands for "interface".
  • serendipiter — an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.
  • shadow price — the calculated price of a good or service for which no market price exists
  • sharp-witted — having or showing mental acuity; intellectually discerning; acute.
  • sheepherding — the act of herding or tending sheep
  • shepherdling — a young or little shepherd
  • siderography — the art or technique of engraving on steel.
  • siderophilic — having characteristics of siderophile
  • sidesplitter — something that is uproariously funny, as a joke or a situation.
  • slippery dip — a long slide at a playground or funfair
  • sloop-rigged — (of a sailboat) fore-and-aft rigged with a mainsail and a jib.
  • spearheading — the sharp-pointed head that forms the piercing end of a spear.
  • speedwriting — a system of shorthand that is based on the sound of words and utilizes letters of the alphabet rather than symbols.
  • spermaticide — spermicide.
  • spermatocide — spermicide.
  • spermatozoid — a motile male gamete produced in an antheridium.
  • spider plant — Also called ribbon plant. a plant, Chlorophytum comosum, of the lily family, native to southern Africa, that has long, narrow leaves and clusters of white flowers and is widely cultivated as a houseplant.
  • spider's web — a mesh of fine tough scleroprotein threads built by a spider from a liquid secreted from its spinnerets and used to trap insects
  • spiderhunter — any of several sunbirds of the genus Arachnothera, of southern Asia and the East Indies, having dull-colored plumage and a long bill.
  • spindle tree — any of various shrubs or trees of the genus Euonymus, esp E. europaeus, of Europe and W Asia, typically having red fruits and yielding a hard wood formerly used in making spindles: family Celastraceae
  • spinning rod — a flexible fishing rod, often made of fiberglass, used with a spinning reel.
  • spinsterhood — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
  • spiny lizard — any of numerous iguanid lizards of the genus Sceloporus, common in North and Central America, usually having keeled scales that may end in a sharp point.
  • spiral-bound — having a spiral binding.
  • spirit guide — type of mystical guardian
  • spiritedness — having or showing mettle, courage, vigor, liveliness, etc.: a spirited defense of poetry.
  • spit-roasted — cooked on a spit
  • spoil ground — an area within a body of water, especially in the sea, where dredged material is deposited.
  • sporadically — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
  • sporting dog — one of any of several breeds of usually large dogs especially suited by size and training for hunting by pointing, flushing, and retrieving game and including the pointers, setters, retrievers, and spaniels.
  • sports drink — a drink containing sugar and salts, etc designed to help replace fluid and energy lost through the physical exertion of sport
  • stride piano — a style of jazz piano playing in which the right hand plays the melody while the left hand plays a single bass note or octave on the strong beat and a chord on the weak beat, developed in Harlem during the 1920s, partly from ragtime piano playing.
  • striped bass — an important American game fish, Morone saxatilis, having blackish stripes along each side.
  • striped drum — a North American marine and freshwater sciaenid fish, Equetus pulcher, that utters a drumming sound
  • study period — a period of time or lesson used for studying
  • subepidermal — just below the epidermis or skin
  • sudoriparous — producing or secreting sweat.
  • superevident — extremely or very evident
  • superimposed — (of a stream or drainage system) having a course not adjusted to the structure of the rocks presently undergoing erosion but determined rather by a prior erosion cycle or by formerly overlying rocks or sediments.
  • superkingdom — in some systems of biological classification, either of the two major subdivisions, prokaryote or eukaryote, into which all living organisms can be placed
  • superordinal — relating to the superorder
  • supply-sider — a person, especially an economist, who advocates supply-side economics.
  • swap trading — a contract in which the parties to it exchange liabilities on outstanding debts in trading
  • table tripod — a low mount or stand for a camera.
  • third person — the grammatical person used by the speaker of an utterance in referring to anyone or anything other than the speaker or the one (third person singular) or ones (third person plural) being addressed.
  • time-expired — (of a cheque) that has lapsed and is no longer valid
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