12-letter words containing e, p, i, d, y
- happy medium — a course of action or condition that is between two extremes: Our climate is a happy medium between hot and cold.
- heteroploidy — (genetics) The state of being heteroploid.
- hydrophilite — a white mineral consisting of potassium and calcium
- hyperacidity — excessive acidity, as of the gastric juice.
- hyperbolised — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- hyperbolized — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperbolize.
- hyperboloids — Plural form of hyperboloid.
- hyperdynamic — (physiology) Describing an increase in both blood pressure and pulse pressure.
- hyperendemic — manifesting a high and persistent occurrence
- hyperexcited — Very highly excited.
- hyperidrosis — excessive or abnormal sweating
- hypermediacy — Hypermedia literacy; the state of being conversant with hypermedia technologies.
- hyperthyroid — of, relating to, or having hyperthyroidism.
- hypochloride — Misspelling of hypochlorite.
- hypostasised — to assume the reality of (an idea, proposition, etc.); hypostatize.
- hypostatised — to treat or regard (a concept, idea, etc.) as a distinct substance or reality.
- hypostatized — Simple past tense and past participle of hypostatize.
- hypothesised — to form a hypothesis.
- hypothesized — Simple past tense and past participle of hypothesize.
- independency — independence (def 1).
- inexpediency — (uncountable) The condition of being inexpedient.
- kidney punch — an illegal punch in the lower back.
- lady-slipper — cypripedium
- leopard lily — a tall lily, Lilium pardalinum, of California, having drooping, orange-red flowers with purple speckles, a yellow base, and recurved petal tips.
- media player — Digital Technology. a portable electronic device or a software program that plays and stores digital audio or video files in various formats.
- money spider — any of certain small shiny brownish spiders of the family Linyphiidae
- painted lady — a butterfly, Vanessa cardui, having brownish-black and orange wings and hind wings each with four eyespots, the larvae of which feed on thistles.
- panty girdle — women's control pants
- peabody bird — the white-throated sparrow.
- pedantically — ostentatious in one's learning.
- peptidolytic — causing the hydrolysis of peptides.
- 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.
- phytonadione — vitamin K1.
- pidyon haben — the rite of relieving the first male child born to parents not descended from Aaron or Levi of certain religious obligations by redeeming him from a member of the priestly class, celebrated 30 days after the child's birth.
- play reading — the activity when a group of people read the parts of a play
- plead guilty — defendant: declare guilt
- 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.
- polypeptidic — relating to a polypeptide
- polysulphide — any sulphide of a metal containing divalent anions in which there are chains of sulphur atoms, as in the polysulphides of sodium, Na2S2, Na2S3, Na2S4, etc
- polythiazide — a substance, C 1 1 H 1 3 ClF 3 N 3 O 4 S 3 , used as a diuretic in the management of edema and hypertension.
- 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.
- 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