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12-letter words containing e, n, d, o, p, t

  • dispensation — an act or instance of dispensing; distribution.
  • dispensatory — a book in which the composition, preparation, and uses of medicinal substances are described; a nonofficial pharmacopoeia.
  • disportments — to divert or amuse (oneself).
  • dissapointed — Misspelling of disappointed.
  • doorstepping — talking to someone at the door of their home, for political canvassing or to gather information
  • down payment — an initial amount paid at the time of purchase, in installment buying, time sales, etc.
  • draftsperson — a person employed in making mechanical drawings, especially in an architectural or engineering firm.
  • drapetomania — (dated) an overwhelming urge to run away (from home, a bad situation, responsibility, etc.).
  • eden project — an environmental complex containing the world's largest greenhouse, built in a disused clay pit near St Austell, Cornwall, to study plant populations in a variety of environments
  • endoparasite — A parasite, such as a tapeworm, that lives inside its host.
  • expeditation — the act of expeditating a dog
  • foundry type — type cast in individual characters for setting by hand.
  • giant powder — dynamite composed of nitroglycerin and kieselguhr.
  • god's plenty — an abundant or overabundant quantity.
  • ground plate — Electricity. a metal plate for making a ground connection to the earth.
  • heptahedrons — Plural form of heptahedron.
  • hydnocarpate — a salt or ester of hydnocarpic acid.
  • impersonated — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
  • impoundments — Plural form of impoundment.
  • incorporated — legally incorporated, as a company.
  • intercropped — Simple past tense and past participle of intercrop.
  • interpolated — to introduce (something additional or extraneous) between other things or parts; interject; interpose; intercalate.
  • introspected — Simple past tense and past participle of introspect.
  • lapped joint — a joint made by placing one member over another and fastening them together
  • leontopodium — any plant of the Eurasian alpine genus Leontopodium, esp L. alpinum
  • lepidopteran — lepidopterous.
  • lepidopteron — any lepidopterous insect.
  • lithopedions — Plural form of lithopedion.
  • median point — centroid (def 2).
  • microprinted — printed in microprint
  • multipronged — having or composed of several prongs: a multipronged electric plug.
  • needlepoints — Plural form of needlepoint.
  • neuropeptide — any of various short-chain peptides, as endorphins, that function as neuromodulators in the nervous system and as hormones in the endocrine system.
  • nondeceptive — not deceptive
  • nondependent — a person or thing that is not dependent, esp in reference to benefit deductions
  • nondepleting — not depleting
  • nondescripts — Plural form of nondescript.
  • nonpigmented — a dry insoluble substance, usually pulverized, which when suspended in a liquid vehicle becomes a paint, ink, etc.
  • open desktop — (operating system, product)   A Motif-based graphical interface from the Santa Cruz Operation (SCO), built over their Unix environment, part of the ACE initiative. Also known as "Open DeathTrap".
  • open verdict — law: coroner's jury finding
  • open-hearted — unreserved, candid, or frank: open-hearted advice.
  • open-mouthed — having the mouth open.
  • opendocument — (file format, standard)   (ODF, ISO/IEC 26300, OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications) An XML file format for office documents, such as spreadsheets, charts, presentations, databases and word processing. OpenDocument was developed by the Open Office XML technical committee of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) consortium. It is based on the XML format originally created and implemented by the OpenOffice.org office suite. OpenDocument is an open standard, i.e. freely available and implementable. Compare OOXML.
  • outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
  • paedodontics — the branch of dentistry that focuses on the care of children's teeth
  • panel doctor — a doctor within a given area available for consultation by patients insured under the National Health Insurance Scheme
  • payment bond — See under contract bond.
  • pedantocracy — rule by pedants; a system of government by pedants
  • pediculation — the act or process of growing a stalk or pedicle
  • pentacrinoid — a larval crinoid resembling members of the genus Pentacrinus
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