12-letter words containing l, a, p, d, i
- 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.
- reading lamp — A reading lamp is a small lamp that you keep on a desk or table. You can move part of it in order to direct the light to where you need it for reading.
- ripe old age — advanced age
- 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.
- seed capital — small sum invested in new business
- slap dashing — slab dashing.
- span loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
- speedballing — the practice of taking cocaine and heroin together intravenously
- spider plant — Also called ribbon plant. a plant, Chlorophytum comosum, of the lily family, native to southern Africa, that has long, narrow leaves and clusters of white flowers and is widely cultivated as a houseplant.
- spinal fluid — cerebrospinal fluid
- spiny lizard — any of numerous iguanid lizards of the genus Sceloporus, common in North and Central America, usually having keeled scales that may end in a sharp point.
- spiral-bound — having a spiral binding.
- sporadically — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- spotted tail — (Sinte-galeshka) 1833?–81, Brulé Sioux leader.
- subduplicate — of the square root of ratios
- subepidermal — just below the epidermis or skin
- sulphadoxine — an antibiotic drug of the sulphonamide group, commonly used in combination with pyrimethamine to treat malaria, and in combination with various drugs to treat certain infections
- sulphonamide — any of a class of organic compounds that are amides of sulphonic acids containing the group –SO2NH2 or a group derived from this. An important class of sulphonamides are the sulfa drugs
- superordinal — relating to the superorder
- synadelphite — an arsenate containing manganese and aluminium
- table tripod — a low mount or stand for a camera.
- top and tail — method of washing a baby
- triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
- trial period — time during which sth can be evaluated
- tropicalised — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- tropicalized — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- trypanocidal — (of a drug, agent, activity, etc) effective in killing trypanosomes
- underlapping — to extend partly under.
- undiplomatic — of, relating to, or engaged in diplomacy: diplomatic officials.
- undisputable — capable of being disputed; debatable; questionable.
- unduplicated — a copy exactly like an original.
- unpavilioned — not provided with a pavilion
- unproclaimed — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
- unstipulated — to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of agreement (often followed by for).
- velocipedean — someone who rides a velocipede
- video player — VCR: videotape recorder
- walled plain — a circular or almost circular area on the moon, sometimes with a floor that is depressed, usually partially enclosed by walls that rise to varying heights and that are usually lower than those of a crater.
- wild apricot — apricot (def 4).
- wild parsley — any of several uncultivated plants resembling the parsley in shape and structure.
- wild parsnip — a strong-smelling umbelliferous plant, Pastinaca sativa, that has an inedible root: the ancestor of the cultivated parsnip
- wild spinach — any of various plants of the genus Chenopodium, sometimes used in place of spinach.
- woolly aphid — any plant louse of the family Aphididae, characterized by a waxy secretion that appears like a jumbled mass of fine, curly, white cottony or woolly threads, as Eriosoma lanigerum (woolly apple aphid or American blight) and Prociphilus tessellatus (woolly alder aphid)