12-letter words containing i, o, d, u
- overbuilding — Present participle of overbuild.
- overclouding — Present participle of overcloud.
- overdiscount — to discount excessively
- overequipped — having too much equipment
- overfatigued — excessively fatigued
- overutilized — to put to use; turn to profitable account: to utilize a stream to power a mill.
- paludicolous — inhabiting marshland
- paradoxurine — relating to the palm civet
- peau de soie — a soft, satin-weave cloth of silk or rayon, grainy and having a dull luster, used to make dresses, coats, trimmings, etc.
- pediculation — the act or process of growing a stalk or pedicle
- pension fund — a fund created and maintained, as by a corporation, to provide benefits under a pension plan.
- perfidiously — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- periodontium — the bone, connective tissue, and gum surrounding and supporting a tooth.
- photoinduced — induced by light.
- picture mold — a molding near a ceiling from which pictures can be suspended.
- poète maudit — a poet who receives insufficient recognition in his or her own time
- 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
- postdiluvial — existing or occurring after the biblical Flood
- postdiluvian — existing or occurring after the Biblical Flood.
- 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-discount — to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.): All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at two percent.
- prediscourse — communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.
- preinduction — occurring before an induction
- premium bond — In Britain, premium bonds are numbered tickets that are sold by the government. Each month, a computer selects several numbers, and the people whose tickets have those numbers win money.
- prison guard — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
- prodigiously — extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.: a prodigious research grant.
- proditorious — traitorous
- product line — all of the products carried by a manufacturer, wholesaler, or retailer.
- productional — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
- productively — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- productivity — the quality, state, or fact of being able to generate, create, enhance, or bring forth goods and services: The productivity of the group's effort surprised everyone.
- promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
- propaedeutic — pertaining to or of the nature of preliminary instruction.
- protoduction — (jargon) A prototype that ends up in a production environment.
- pseudoanemia — Pathology. a quantitative deficiency of the hemoglobin, often accompanied by a reduced number of red blood cells and causing pallor, weakness, and breathlessness.
- pseudocyesis — false pregnancy.
- pseudonymity — pseudonymous character.
- pseudopodial — a temporary protrusion of the protoplasm, as of certain protozoans, usually serving as an organ of locomotion or prehension.
- pseudopodium — pseudopod.
- pseudorabies — a highly contagious, usually fatal disease of cattle, sheep, and other animals, caused by the herpesvirus Herpes suis, and characterized by severe pruritus and progressive central nervous system involvement sometimes including an aggressive excitement phase.
- public goods — services such as national defence, law enforcement, and road building, that are for the benefit of, and available to, all members of the public
- puddingstone — any conglomerate rock having dark-colored, rounded pebbles that are embedded in a light-colored, fine-grained matrix
- punditocracy — influential media pundits collectively.
- put in order — arrange correctly
- quadraphonic — of, noting, or pertaining to the recording and reproduction of sound over four separate transmission or direct reproduction channels instead of the customary two of the stereo system: a quadraphonic recording.
- quadrillions — Plural form of quadrillion.
- quadrinomial — consisting of four terms.
- quadriphonic — quadraphonic.
- quadrisonics — quadraphony.