12-letter words containing d, u, e, p, r
- graduateship — the time or condition of being a graduate
- ground plane — (in perspective drawing) the theoretical horizontal plane receding from the picture plane to the horizon, beginning at the level of the base line.
- ground plate — Electricity. a metal plate for making a ground connection to the earth.
- groundkeeper — groundskeeper.
- hepadnavirus — Any member of the virus family Hepadnaviridae, capable of causing liver infections in humans and animals.
- heteroduplex — having polynucleotide strands derived from two different sources
- house spider — any largish dark spider of the genus Tegenaria that is common in houses, such as the cardinal spider
- imprest fund — a fund of petty cash.
- jeopardously — with risk or peril
- jeu d'esprit — a witticism.
- jurisprudent — versed in jurisprudence.
- ligniperdous — (of insects) wood-destroying
- liopleurodon — Any of the genus Liopleurodon of large carnivorous marine plesiosaurs, apex predators of the Middle to Late Jurassic seas that covered Europe.
- liverpudlian — a seaport in Merseyside, in W England, on the Mersey estuary.
- loudspeakers — Plural form of loudspeaker, especially a pair for a left and right channel.
- mass-produce — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- medium strip — median strip.
- mousetrapped — Simple past tense and past participle of mousetrap.
- muckspreader — a machine for spreading manure over farmland
- multipronged — having or composed of several prongs: a multipronged electric plug.
- neuropeptide — any of various short-chain peptides, as endorphins, that function as neuromodulators in the nervous system and as hormones in the endocrine system.
- oil producer — a country with reserves of oil
- ombudsperson — ombudsman (def 2).
- outperformed — Simple past tense and past participle of outperform.
- outreproduce — to reproduce more prolifically than
- outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
- overequipped — having too much equipment
- overpersuade — to persuade (a person) against his or her inclination or intention: By threats and taunts they had overpersuaded him to steal the car.
- pachydermous — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
- palace guard — the security force protecting a palace.
- paradoxurine — relating to the palm civet
- pasture land — grassland used for grazing
- peradventure — chance, doubt, or uncertainty.
- perfidiously — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- periodontium — the bone, connective tissue, and gum surrounding and supporting a tooth.
- pfund series — a series of lines in the infrared spectrum of hydrogen.
- phosphureted — combined with phosphorus, especially in its lowest valence state.
- picture card — face card
- picture desk — the department at a magazine or newspaper publisher, that deals with photographs for the paper or magazine
- picture disc — a phonograph record with a picture on the vinyl.
- picture mold — a molding near a ceiling from which pictures can be suspended.
- ponce around — If you say that someone is poncing around or poncing about, you mean that they are not doing something properly, quickly, or seriously.
- postgraduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
- powerbuilder — (tool, database) A graphical user interface development tool from Powersoft for developing client-server database applications. It runs under MS-DOS(?) and Microsoft Windows. There are also versions for Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Macintosh, and Unix. Applications can be built by creating windows, controls (such as listboxes and buttons), and menus within the PowerBuilder development environment. The language used to program PowerBuilder, PowerScript, is loosely based on BASIC. PowerBuilder supports programming on many database backends including Sybase and Oracle. It also has added support for ODBC database drivers. PowerBuilder also comes with a built-in database backend (WATCOM SQL 32-bit relational database).
- 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.
- pre-conclude — to bring to an end; finish; terminate: to conclude a speech with a quotation from the Bible.
- pre-discount — to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.): All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at two percent.
- preannounced — to make known publicly or officially; proclaim; give notice of: to announce a special sale.
- predeparture — of, pertaining to or implemented during the stage prior to departure
- prediscourse — communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.