12-letter words containing l, e, p, i, d
- peccadilloes — a very minor or slight sin or offense; a trifling fault.
- pedantically — ostentatious in one's learning.
- pedicellaria — one of the minute pincerlike structures common to starfish and sea urchins, used for cleaning and to capture tiny prey.
- pediculation — the act or process of growing a stalk or pedicle
- pediculicide — Also, pediculicidal. destructive to lice.
- pencil cedar — the red cedar, Juniperus virginiana, or its wood.
- pend oreille — a river in NE Washington, N Idaho, and SE British Columbia, flowing NW to the Columbia River. 130 miles (209 km) long.
- peptidolytic — causing the hydrolysis of peptides.
- perfidiously — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- periodic law — the law that the properties of the elements are periodic functions of their atomic numbers.
- periodically — recurring at intervals of time: periodic revivals of an interest in handicrafts.
- personalised — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
- personalized — customized
- philadelphia — a city in SE Pennsylvania, on the Delaware River: Declaration of Independence signed here July 4, 1776.
- philadelphus — (Philadelphus) king of Pergamum c159–138 b.c.
- philandering — (of a man) to make love with a woman one cannot or will not marry; carry on flirtations.
- philodendron — a tropical American climbing plant belonging to the genus Philodendron, of the arum family, usually having smooth, shiny, evergreen leaves, often used as an ornamental houseplant.
- philomelides — a king of Lesbos who wrestled and killed every opponent until he himself was defeated by Odysseus.
- pickerelweed — any American plant of the genus Pontederia, especially P. cordata, having spikes of blue flowers, common in shallow fresh water.
- picture mold — a molding near a ceiling from which pictures can be suspended.
- pied wagtail — a British songbird, Motacilla alba yarrellii, with a black throat and back, long black tail, and white underparts and face: family Motacillidae (wagtails and pipits)
- pig islander — a New Zealander
- pigeon blood — dark red.
- pilot ladder — Jacob's ladder (def 2a).
- pimelic acid — a crystalline compound, C 7 H 1 2 O 4 , soluble in alcohol and ether: used in polymers and as a plasticizer.
- pineal gland — a small, cone-shaped endocrine organ in the posterior forebrain, secreting melatonin and involved in biorhythms and gonadal development.
- pink-slipped — (of an employee) given notice of redundancy
- pit dwelling — a primitive dwelling consisting of a pit excavated in the earth and roofed over.
- plagiohedral — (of a crystal) having faces arranged obliquely in a helix.
- plaid screen — [XEROX PARC] A "special effect" that occurs when certain kinds of memory smashes overwrite the control blocks or image memory of a bit-mapped display. The term "salt and pepper" may refer to a different pattern of similar origin. Though the term as coined at PARC refers to the result of an error, some of the X demos induce plaid-screen effects deliberately as a display hack.
- plate girder — an iron or steel beam built up from plates and shapes welded or riveted together, usually including a plate or plates for a web, four angle irons forming two flanges, and a pair of plates to reinforce the flanges.
- play reading — the activity when a group of people read the parts of a play
- plead guilty — defendant: declare guilt
- pleased with — satisfied or content with
- plerocercoid — the wormlike larval stage of some tapeworms, intermediate between the first parasitic larval stage and adult.
- pole dancing — Pole dancing is a type of entertainment in a bar or club in which a woman who is wearing very few clothes dances around a pole in a sexy way.
- 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.
- poodle skirt — 1950s-style woman's circular skirt
- porthole die — a die having several openings for the extrusion of separate parts of an object later formed by the welding or fusing together of these parts.
- postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
- postdeadline — the time by which something must be finished or submitted; the latest time for finishing something: a five o'clock deadline.
- postdelivery — of, relating to, or occurring after a delivery
- poster child — a child appearing on a poster for a charitable organization.
- postmedieval — occurring or existing after the Middle Ages, of or related to the period after the Middle Ages
- 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).