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12-letter words containing d, r, o, l, p

  • pre-enrolled — to write the name of (a person) in a roll or register; place upon a list; register: It took two days to enroll the new students.
  • pre-modelled — a standard or example for imitation or comparison.
  • predilection — a tendency to think favorably of something in particular; partiality; preference: a predilection for Bach.
  • 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.
  • primordially — constituting a beginning; giving origin to something derived or developed; original; elementary: primordial forms of life.
  • procathedral — a church used temporarily as a cathedral.
  • procedurally — of or relating to a procedure or procedures, especially of a court of law, legislative body, or law enforcement agency.
  • 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.
  • prodigiously — extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.: a prodigious research grant.
  • product line — all of the products carried by a manufacturer, wholesaler, or retailer.
  • productional — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
  • productively — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
  • profile drag — the sum of the surface friction drag and the form drag for a body moving subsonically through a fluid
  • 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.
  • pronouncedly — strongly marked: a pronounced fishy taste.
  • prosodically — in a prosodic manner
  • providential — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
  • pseudocereal — any of several plants, as buckwheat and quinoa, that produce fruits and seeds used as flour but are not of the grass family.
  • pseudoscalar — a scalar quantity that changes sign when the sense of the orientation of the coordinate system is changed.
  • pyramidology — a belief system based on the supposed occult significance of the Egyptian pyramids
  • pyritohedral — of or relating to a pyritohedron
  • railroad pen — a ruling pen for drawing two parallel lines.
  • 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.
  • redeployment — to transfer (a unit, a person, supplies, etc.) from one theater of operations to another.
  • reproducible — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • ripe old age — advanced age
  • royal pardon — release from punishment for an offence, granted by a monarch
  • scolopendrid — any myriapod of the order Scolopendrida, including many large, poisonous centipedes.
  • self-powered — (of a machine, vehicle, etc.) having a specified fuel or prime mover: a gasoline-powered engine; an engine-powered pump.
  • shoulder pad — clothing: insert in shoulder
  • siderophilic — having characteristics of siderophile
  • sleep around — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
  • sloop-rigged — (of a sailboat) fore-and-aft rigged with a mainsail and a jib.
  • sloped roman — a roman (vertical) typeface, usually sans serif, i.e. without the small, decorative, terminal strokes with which some typefaces are designed. The typeface is made to slope (usually to the right), but not generally to the same degree as a true italic typeface
  • snow leopard — a long-haired, leopardlike feline, Panthera (Uncia) uncia, of mountain ranges of central Asia, having a relatively small head and a thick, creamy-gray coat with rosette spots: an endangered species.
  • spiral-bound — having a spiral binding.
  • 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.
  • superordinal — relating to the superorder
  • table tripod — a low mount or stand for a camera.
  • tradespeople — people engaged in trade, esp shopkeepers
  • triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
  • trial period — time during which sth can be evaluated
  • 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.
  • trou-de-loup — a conical or pyramidal pit with a pointed stake fixed vertically in the center, rows of which are dug in front of a fortification to hinder an enemy's approach, formerly used chiefly against cavalry.
  • trypanocidal — (of a drug, agent, activity, etc) effective in killing trypanosomes
  • underdevelop — to develop (something) short of the required amount: to underdevelop film.
  • underexploit — to make insufficient use of
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