12-letter words containing d, r, y
- odontography — a treatise regarding the teeth
- off broadway — experimental or avant-garde drama produced in New York City, in small theaters, halls, churches, etc.
- off-broadway — experimental or avant-garde drama produced in New York City, in small theaters, halls, churches, etc.
- oil industry — petroleum-processing business
- olivary body — one of two oval bodies or prominences composed of nerve tissue, one on each side of the anterior surface of the medulla oblongata.
- on your mind — If something is on your mind, you are worried or concerned about it and think about it a lot.
- on your side — If something is on your side or if you have it on your side, it helps you when you are trying to achieve something.
- orchidectomy — orchiectomy.
- orderly room — the administrative office of a small military unit.
- ordinary lay — the form of lay found in a cable-laid rope
- ordinary ray — Optics, Crystallography. the part of a doubly refracted ray whose velocity within a crystal is the same in any direction.
- otherworldly — of, relating to, or devoted to another world, as the world of imagination or the world to come.
- overanalyzed — Simple past tense and past participle of overanalyze.
- overidentify — to identify with someone else to an excessive degree
- overmodestly — in an extremely modest manner
- pachydermous — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
- panty girdle — women's control pants
- paradoxology — a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
- parahydrogen — the form of molecular hydrogen in which the nuclei of the two hydrogen atoms contained in the molecule have spins in opposite directions.
- party leader — a leader of a political party
- pastry board — a flat board on which pastry is rolled
- payment card — A payment card is a plastic card which you use like a credit card, but which takes the money directly from your bank account.
- peabody bird — the white-throated sparrow.
- peach brandy — brandy distilled from the fermented juice of peaches.
- pedantocracy — rule by pedants; a system of government by pedants
- penny arcade — an amusement hall or area that contains coin-operated entertainment devices, originally operated for a penny a play.
- pentahydrate — a hydrate that contains five molecules of water, as potassium molybdate, KMoO 4 ⋅5H 2 O.
- pentahydroxy — (of a molecule) containing five hydroxyl groups.
- pepys' diary — a diary kept by Samuel Pepys from January 1, 1660 to May 31, 1669, in which are recorded his impressions of contemporary London life, the life of the court, and the administration of the navy.
- perfidiously — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- periodically — recurring at intervals of time: periodic revivals of an interest in handicrafts.
- phased array — a radar antenna consisting of an array of dipoles that are excited in or out of phase with each other to control beam direction and radiation pattern without moving the antenna. Compare dipole (def 3).
- pig industry — the people and activities involved in making pork products
- 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.
- poddy-dodger — a cattle thief who steals unbranded calves
- policyholder — the individual or firm in whose name an insurance policy is written; an insured.
- 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.
- postdelivery — of, relating to, or occurring after a delivery
- praseodymium — a rare-earth, metallic, trivalent element, named from its green salts. Symbol: Pr; atomic weight: 140.91; atomic number: 59; specific gravity: 6.77 at 20°C.
- prayer beads — the beads of the rosary
- pre-delivery — the carrying and turning over of letters, goods, etc., to a designated recipient or recipients.
- predictively — of or relating to prediction: losing one's predictive power.
- prediscovery — a previous discovery
- pretendingly — falsely
- primordially — constituting a beginning; giving origin to something derived or developed; original; elementary: primordial forms of life.
- procedurally — of or relating to a procedure or procedures, especially of a court of law, legislative body, or law enforcement agency.
- prodigiosity — the state or quality of being immense, extraordinary or astonishing
- prodigiously — extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.: a prodigious research grant.