12-letter words containing o, d, e, u
- overabundant — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
- overbuilding — Present participle of overbuild.
- overburdened — Excessively burdened.
- overclouding — Present participle of overcloud.
- overcoloured — excessively coloured
- overconsumed — Simple past tense and past participle of overconsume.
- overdiscount — to discount excessively
- overdocument — to document excessively
- overeducated — Having been educated to a higher academic level than is necessary.
- overequipped — having too much equipment
- overfatigued — excessively fatigued
- overfocussed — too focussed
- overpersuade — to persuade (a person) against his or her inclination or intention: By threats and taunts they had overpersuaded him to steal the car.
- overscutched — overworked; worn out
- overutilized — to put to use; turn to profitable account: to utilize a stream to power a mill.
- pachydermous — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
- pandanaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Pandanaceae, an Old World tropical family of monocotyledonous plants including the screw pines
- paradoxurine — relating to the palm civet
- peau de soie — a soft, satin-weave cloth of silk or rayon, grainy and having a dull luster, used to make dresses, coats, trimmings, etc.
- pediculation — the act or process of growing a stalk or pedicle
- pension fund — a fund created and maintained, as by a corporation, to provide benefits under a pension plan.
- perfidiously — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- periodontium — the bone, connective tissue, and gum surrounding and supporting a tooth.
- phosphureted — combined with phosphorus, especially in its lowest valence state.
- photoinduced — induced by light.
- picture mold — a molding near a ceiling from which pictures can be suspended.
- poète maudit — a poet who receives insufficient recognition in his or her own time
- pollutedness — the state of being polluted
- 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
- ponce around — If you say that someone is poncing around or poncing about, you mean that they are not doing something properly, quickly, or seriously.
- postgraduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
- 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).
- praseodymium — a rare-earth, metallic, trivalent element, named from its green salts. Symbol: Pr; atomic weight: 140.91; atomic number: 59; specific gravity: 6.77 at 20°C.
- pre-conclude — to bring to an end; finish; terminate: to conclude a speech with a quotation from the Bible.
- pre-discount — to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.): All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at two percent.
- preannounced — to make known publicly or officially; proclaim; give notice of: to announce a special sale.
- prediscourse — communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.
- preinduction — occurring before an induction
- premium bond — In Britain, premium bonds are numbered tickets that are sold by the government. Each month, a computer selects several numbers, and the people whose tickets have those numbers win money.
- procedurally — of or relating to a procedure or procedures, especially of a court of law, legislative body, or law enforcement agency.
- produce race — a race for the offspring of parents identified or characterized at the time of nomination.
- producer gas — a mixture of carbon monoxide and nitrogen produced by passing air over hot coke, used mainly as a fuel
- product line — all of the products carried by a manufacturer, wholesaler, or retailer.
- productively — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- profoundness — penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge; having deep insight or understanding: a profound thinker.
- promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
- pronouncedly — strongly marked: a pronounced fishy taste.
- propaedeutic — pertaining to or of the nature of preliminary instruction.
- proudhearted — full of pride.
- pseudamphora — a Mycenaean vase having a spherical body, a spout on the shoulder, and a handle, curving across the top, supported by a solid conical neck.