12-letter words containing n, o, s, p
- de profundis — out of the depths of misery or dejection
- deaspiration — the act of deaspirating
- decompensate — to undergo decompensation due to disease or impairment
- demi-pension — an arrangement whereby a guest or resident pays, usually at a fixed rate, for room, breakfast, and one other daily meal offered in a hotel or boardinghouse; half board. Compare modified American plan.
- deportations — Plural form of deportation.
- deposit loan — a loan to cover the cost of a deposit on something such as rented accommodation
- depositation — the act of depositing
- depositional — of or relating to a deposition
- depredations — the act of preying upon or plundering; robbery; ravage.
- deprivations — Plural form of deprivation.
- derepression — the act of derepressing a gene
- descriptions — a statement, picture in words, or account that describes; descriptive representation.
- despoliation — the act of despoiling; plunder or pillage
- despondences — Plural form of despondence.
- despondently — feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection, discouragement, or gloom: despondent about failing health.
- dessertspoon — A dessertspoon is a spoon which is midway between the size of a teaspoon and a tablespoon. You use it to eat desserts.
- developments — Plural form of development.
- diaphanously — In a diaphanous manner or to a diaphanous extent.
- dinosaur pen — A traditional mainframe computer room complete with raised flooring, special power, its own ultra-heavy-duty air conditioning, and a side order of Halon fire extinguishers. See boa.
- diplogenesis — the double production or formation of something that is normally single, such as a doubled part in a fetus or a double fetus
- dipsomaniacs — Plural form of dipsomaniac.
- disappointed — depressed or discouraged by the failure of one's hopes or expectations: a disappointed suitor.
- disapproving — Expressing an unfavorable opinion.
- disceptation — (archaic) Controversy; disputation; discussion.
- discomposing — Present participle of discompose.
- disoperation — a relationship between two organisms in a community that is harmful to both
- dispensation — an act or instance of dispensing; distribution.
- dispensatory — a book in which the composition, preparation, and uses of medicinal substances are described; a nonofficial pharmacopoeia.
- disportments — to divert or amuse (oneself).
- dispositions — Plural form of disposition.
- disputations — Plural form of disputation.
- dissapointed — Misspelling of disappointed.
- dissipations — Plural form of dissipation.
- doorstepping — talking to someone at the door of their home, for political canvassing or to gather information
- dosing strip — (in New Zealand) an area set aside for treating dogs suspected of having hydatid disease
- draftsperson — a person employed in making mechanical drawings, especially in an architectural or engineering firm.
- duplications — Plural form of duplication.
- dystopianism — a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
- emancipators — Plural form of emancipator.
- empassionate — intensely affected
- encompasseth — Archaic third-person singular form of encompass.
- encompassing — Present participle of encompass.
- endless loop — infinite loop
- endomorphism — changes in a cooling body of igneous rock brought about by assimilation of fragments of, or chemical reaction with, the surrounding country rock
- endoparasite — A parasite, such as a tapeworm, that lives inside its host.
- endophyllous — enclosed in a leaf or sheath
- enhypostasia — personalities existing in union (Jesus Christ and God the Son)
- enhypostatic — relating to enhypostasia
- enophthalmos — The posterior displacement of the eyeball within the orbit due to changes in the volume of the orbit (bone) relative to its contents (the eyeball and orbital fat), or loss of function of the orbitalis muscle.
- enteropneust — a worm-like marine invertebrate