12-letter words containing n, p, d
- impersonated — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
- imponderable — not ponderable; that cannot be precisely determined, measured, or evaluated.
- impoundments — Plural form of impoundment.
- imprest fund — a fund of petty cash.
- improvidence — not provident; lacking foresight; incautious; unwary.
- impudentness — Quality of being impudent.
- in deep shit — excrement; feces.
- in duplicate — in two copies, times two
- in good part — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- in spadefuls — in an extreme or emphatic way
- in the dumps — a depressed state of mind (usually preceded by in the): to be in the dumps over money problems.
- in-bond shop — a duty-free shop
- inadaptation — the state of not being adapted or the lack of adaptation
- incapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of incapsulate.
- incorporated — legally incorporated, as a company.
- independence — a city in W Missouri: starting point of the Santa Fe and Oregon trails.
- independency — independence (def 1).
- independents — Plural form of independent.
- indianapolis — Robert (Robert Clarke) born 1928, U.S. painter of pop art.
- indiscipline — lack of discipline or control: a campus problem of student indiscipline.
- indisposable — Not disposable.
- indisputable — not disputable or deniable; uncontestable. indisputable evidence.
- indisputably — not disputable or deniable; uncontestable. indisputable evidence.
- indo-pacific — of or relating to the areas of the Indian and Pacific oceans off the coast of SE Asia.
- inexpedience — The quality or state of being inexpedient; unsuitableness or impropriety.
- inexpediency — (uncountable) The condition of being inexpedient.
- input device — a peripheral device, as a keyboard or stylus, used to enter data into a computer for processing.
- intercropped — Simple past tense and past participle of intercrop.
- interpleaded — Simple past tense and past participle of interplead.
- interpleader — a party who interpleads.
- interpolated — to introduce (something additional or extraneous) between other things or parts; interject; interpose; intercalate.
- interpretted — (comparatively rare) Simple past tense and past participle of interpret.
- interspersed — to scatter here and there or place at intervals among other things: to intersperse flowers among shrubs.
- interspliced — Simple past tense and past participle of intersplice.
- intrepidness — resolutely fearless; dauntless: an intrepid explorer.
- introspected — Simple past tense and past participle of introspect.
- jaw-dropping — Something that is jaw-dropping is extremely surprising, impressive, or shocking.
- jeopardising — Present participle of jeopardise.
- jeopardizing — Present participle of jeopardize.
- jurisprudent — versed in jurisprudence.
- kaleidophone — an instrument, invented by Professor Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875), consisting of a light on a vibrating rod with a reflecting knob for exhibiting the effect of sound waves
- keep in mind — (in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.: the processes of the human mind.
- kidney punch — an illegal punch in the lower back.
- kindred-ship — a person's relatives collectively; kinfolk; kin.
- lambda point — the temperature of approximately 2.186 K, at which the transition from helium I to superfluid helium II occurs.
- lampadomancy — a method of divination by studying the carbon deposits left by a burning lamp or candle
- land plaster — finely ground gypsum, used chiefly as a fertilizer.
- landed price — the price when delivered
- landing flap — a flap in the undersurface of the trailing edge of an aircraft wing, capable of being moved downward to increase either lift or drag or both, as for landing. Compare split flap (def 1).
- landing page — a web page that a user is directed to after clicking on an external hyperlink, often a page designed especially for marketing purposes: Their landing page asks for your email address and automatically enters you into a $1,000 cash drawing.