12-letter words containing d, u, p
- endophyllous — enclosed in a leaf or sheath
- expenditures — Plural form of expenditure.
- expostulated — Simple past tense and past participle of expostulate.
- face down/up — If someone or something is face down, their face or front points downwards. If they are face up, their face or front points upwards.
- farm produce — agricultural products regarded collectively
- fluoroscoped — Simple past tense and past participle of fluoroscope.
- foot-poundal — a foot-pound-second unit of work or energy equal to the work done by a force of one poundal when its point of application moves through a distance of one foot in the direction of the force. Abbreviation: ft-pdl.
- forward push — A forward push is a feature of distillation columns (= tall vessels for distillation) in which zones that allow higher contact between substances are near the top of the column.
- foundry type — type cast in individual characters for setting by hand.
- fuddling cup — an English earthenware drinking vessel of the 17th and 18th centuries, having the form of a cluster of three or more cups communicating at their bottoms in such a way that the entire vessel can be drained from any of them.
- full powered — (of a vessel) relying on engines for propulsion without assistance from sails.
- garbage dump — rubbish tip, place where refuse is disposed of
- gelande jump — jump made in downhill skiing
- geopressured — subject to geostatic pressure.
- golden syrup — treacle (def 2b).
- 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.
- guardianship — the position and responsibilities of a guardian, especially toward a ward.
- gypsum board — wallboard composed primarily of gypsum and often used as sheathing.
- happy medium — a course of action or condition that is between two extremes: Our climate is a happy medium between hot and cold.
- 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
- hydrophilous — pollinated by the agency of water.
- ill-equipped — badly or inadequately equipped: an ill-equipped army.
- impoundments — Plural form of impoundment.
- imprest fund — a fund of petty cash.
- impudentness — Quality of being impudent.
- in duplicate — in two copies, times two
- in spadefuls — in an extreme or emphatic way
- in the dumps — a depressed state of mind (usually preceded by in the): to be in the dumps over money problems.
- incapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of incapsulate.
- indisputable — not disputable or deniable; uncontestable. indisputable evidence.
- indisputably — not disputable or deniable; uncontestable. indisputable evidence.
- input device — a peripheral device, as a keyboard or stylus, used to enter data into a computer for processing.
- jeopardously — with risk or peril
- jeu d'esprit — a witticism.
- jurisprudent — versed in jurisprudence.
- kidney punch — an illegal punch in the lower back.
- lapidicolous — living under stones
- leontopodium — any plant of the Eurasian alpine genus Leontopodium, esp L. alpinum
- leukopedesis — an outward flow of white blood cells through a blood-vessel wall.
- 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.