12-letter words containing e, s, p, a, d, r
- dual-purpose — serving two functions.
- dust wrapper — dust jacket (sense 1)
- eavesdropped — Simple past tense and past participle of eavesdrop.
- eavesdropper — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
- edaphosaurus — Any of several dinosaurs of the family Edaphosauridae, from the Carboniferous and Permian periods, that had a distinctive dorsal sail or crest.
- endoparasite — A parasite, such as a tapeworm, that lives inside its host.
- flash powder — powder that could be ignited to provide a bright light to take a photograph
- gas-operated — (of a firearm) using some of the exhaust gases to operate the action.
- graduateship — the time or condition of being a graduate
- grandnephews — Plural form of grandnephew.
- grandparents — a parent of a parent.
- handicappers — Plural form of handicapper.
- handypersons — Plural form of handyperson.
- hard pressed — heavily burdened or oppressed, as by overwork or financial difficulties; harried; put-upon.
- hard-pressed — heavily burdened or oppressed, as by overwork or financial difficulties; harried; put-upon.
- harper woods — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- heart-shaped — shaped like a stylized heart with a double rounded top
- hepadnavirus — Any member of the virus family Hepadnaviridae, capable of causing liver infections in humans and animals.
- heptahedrons — Plural form of heptahedron.
- iceland spar — a transparent variety of calcite that is double-refracting and is used as a polarizer.
- imperialised — Simple past tense and past participle of imperialise.
- impersonated — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
- jeopardising — Present participle of jeopardise.
- jeopardously — with risk or peril
- lady-slipper — cypripedium
- land plaster — finely ground gypsum, used chiefly as a fertilizer.
- leopard seal — a yellowish-gray, spotted seal, Hydrurga leptonyx, of the Antarctic.
- leopardesses — Plural form of leopardess.
- lesser panda — panda (def 2).
- loudspeakers — Plural form of loudspeaker, especially a pair for a left and right channel.
- madreporites — Plural form of madreporite.
- manspreading — the practice by a male passenger on public transport of sitting with his legs wide apart, so denying space to passengers beside him
- mass-produce — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- meanspirited — petty; small-minded; ungenerous: a meanspirited man, unwilling to forgive.
- media person — a person who works in the mass media
- median strip — a paved, planted, or landscaped strip in the center of a highway that separates lanes of traffic going in opposite directions.
- mediatorship — the position of a mediator
- misapprehend — to misunderstand.
- mousetrapped — Simple past tense and past participle of mousetrap.
- muckspreader — a machine for spreading manure over farmland
- needle-sharp — very sharp
- newspaperdom — The realm or sphere of newspaper publishing or journalism.
- normed space — any vector space on which a norm is defined.
- oilseed rape — Oilseed rape is a plant with yellow flowers which is grown as a crop. Its seeds are crushed to make cooking oil.
- orthopaedics — (used with a singular verb) the medical specialty concerned with correction of deformities or functional impairments of the skeletal system, especially the extremities and the spine, and associated structures, as muscles and ligaments.
- orthopaedist — Alternative spelling of orthopedist.
- outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
- 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.
- pamperedness — the state of being pampered