12-letter words containing i, s, o, p, d
- prodigiosity — the state or quality of being immense, extraordinary or astonishing
- prodigiously — extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.: a prodigious research grant.
- proditorious — traitorous
- promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
- propagandism — the art, system, or use of propaganda
- propagandist — a person involved in producing or spreading propaganda.
- prosodically — in a prosodic manner
- 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.
- pteridosperm — seed fern.
- 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
- radioisotope — a radioactive isotope, usually artificially produced: used in physical and biological research, therapeutics, etc.
- radiophonist — a person who produces radiophonic music
- rapeseed oil — a brownish-yellow oil obtained by expression from rapeseed and used chiefly as a lubricant, an illuminant, and in the manufacture of rubber substitutes.
- re-deposited — to place for safekeeping or in trust, especially in a bank account: He deposited his paycheck every Friday.
- redemptorist — a member of the “Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer,” founded by St. Alphonsus Liguori in 1732.
- redispose of — to dispose of again
- respondentia — a loan upon a ship's cargo, which is repaid with interest if the ship reaches its destination, and if the ship does not, the loan is not repaid
- saddle point — a point at which a function of two variables has partial derivatives equal to zero but at which the function has neither a maximum nor a minimum value.
- safe-deposit — providing safekeeping for valuables: a safe-deposit vault.
- sago pudding — a sweet pudding made with sago and milk
- sapindaceous — belonging to the Sapindaceae, the soapberry family of plants.
- schizopodous — of or relating to a schizopod
- scolopendrid — any myriapod of the order Scolopendrida, including many large, poisonous centipedes.
- scouring pad — a small pad, as of steel wool or plastic mesh, used for scouring pots, pans, etc.
- scsi adaptor — (hardware) (Or "host adaptor") A device that communicates between a computer and its SCSI peripherals. The SCSI adaptor is usually assigned SCSI ID 7. It is often a separate card that is connected to the computer's bus (e.g. PCI, ISA, PCMCIA) though increasinly, SCSI adaptors are built in to the motherboard. Apart from being cheaper, busses like PCI are too slow to keep up with the newer SCSI standards like Ultra SCSI and Ultra-Wide SCSI. There are several varieties of SCSI (and their connectors) and an adaptor will not support them all. The performance of SCSI devices is limited by the speed of the SCSI adaptor and its connection to the computer. An adaptor that plugs into a parallel port is unlikely to be as fast as one incorporated into a motherboard. Fast adaptors use DMA or bus mastering. Some SCSI adaptors include a BIOS to allow PCs to boot from a SCSI hard disk, if their own BIOS supports it. Note that it is not a "SCSI controller" - it does not control the devices, and "SCSI interface" is redundant - the "I" of "SCSI" stands for "interface".
- self-imposed — imposed on one by oneself: a self-imposed task.
- semideponent — (of a Latin verb) active in meaning but passive in form in the perfect tense
- shadow price — the calculated price of a good or service for which no market price exists
- siderography — the art or technique of engraving on steel.
- siderophilic — having characteristics of siderophile
- sindonophany — the periodic exhibiting to the public of the shroud that the body of Christ is thought to have been wrapped in
- sloop-rigged — (of a sailboat) fore-and-aft rigged with a mainsail and a jib.
- snow pudding — a pudding, prepared by folding egg whites into a lemon gelatin mixture.
- span loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
- speedboating — the act, practice, or sport of traveling in a speedboat.
- spermatocide — spermicide.
- spermatozoid — a motile male gamete produced in an antheridium.
- spinning rod — a flexible fishing rod, often made of fiberglass, used with a spinning reel.
- spinsterhood — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
- spiral-bound — having a spiral binding.
- spit-roasted — cooked on a spit
- split second — a fraction of a second.
- spoil ground — an area within a body of water, especially in the sea, where dredged material is deposited.
- sporadically — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.