12-letter words containing d, r, i, p
- top dressing — tennis court
- trading post — a store established in an unsettled or thinly settled region by a trader or trading company to obtain furs and local products in exchange for supplies, clothing, other goods, or for cash.
- trepidations — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- trepidatious — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
- trial period — time during which sth can be evaluated
- tricuspidate — having three cusps or flaps.
- triple-digit — being in the hundreds or in a figure or amount from 100 through 999: triple-digit budget figures.
- tripudiation — the act of dancing for joy
- trophy child — anything taken in war, hunting, competition, etc., especially when preserved as a memento; spoil, prize, or award.
- tropicalised — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- tropicalized — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- trypanocidal — (of a drug, agent, activity, etc) effective in killing trypanosomes
- tryparsamide — a white, crystalline powder, C 8 H 10 O 4 N 2 AsNa·½H 2 , used chiefly in treating African sleeping sickness.
- tutor period — (in British secondary schools) a school period for which a tutor group comes together with their tutor
- twin paradox — a phenomenon predicted by relativity. One of a pair of identical twins is supposed to live normally in an inertial system whilst the other is accelerated to a high speed in a spaceship, travels for a long time, and finally returns to rest beside his twin. The travelled twin will be found to be younger than his brother
- twisted pair — A twisted pair is a pair of wires that are twisted together to reduce interference.
- twitterpated — excited or overcome by romantic feelings; smitten.
- typhoid mary — Mary ("Typhoid Mary") 1869?–1938, U.S. cook, born in Ireland: known immune carrier of typhoid fever who infected many with the disease, institutionalized in 1914.
- un-disrupted — to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
- undeciphered — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- under-script — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
- underexploit — to make insufficient use of
- underlapping — to extend partly under.
- underpassion — an underlying or subconscious passion
- underpinning — a system of supports beneath a wall or the like.
- underpricing — the state of being priced at too low a level or amount
- underspecify — to mention or name specifically or definitely; state in detail: He did not specify the amount needed.
- undespairing — not despairing; not giving in to despair
- unimportuned — without being forced or impelled
- unimprisoned — not confined in a prison
- united party — (formerly, in South Africa) the major opposition party, founded by General Smuts in 1934: the official Opposition in Parliament from 1948, the party was disbanded in 1977
- unpatronized — having few or no patrons
- unpredicated — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
- unpredictive — of or relating to prediction: losing one's predictive power.
- unprejudiced — not prejudiced; without preconception; unbiased; impartial: the unprejudiced view of the judge.
- unprescribed — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
- unpretending — unpretentious; genuine
- unprincipled — lacking or not based on moral scruples or principles: an unprincipled person; unprincipled behavior.
- unprivileged — belonging to a class that enjoys special privileges; favored: the privileged few.
- unproclaimed — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
- unproductive — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- unprohibited — to forbid (an action, activity, etc.) by authority or law: Smoking is prohibited here.
- unpropertied — owning property: the propertied class.
- unredemptive — serving to redeem.
- unresponding — to reply or answer in words: to respond briefly to a question.
- unsupervised — to oversee (a process, work, workers, etc.) during execution or performance; superintend; have the oversight and direction of.
- unworshipped — not worshipped; not admired or revered
- video piracy — the unauthorized or prohibited use of audio-visual works covered by copyright law, in a way that violates one of the copyright owner's exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works
- video player — VCR: videotape recorder