12-letter words containing o, d, p, e
- high-powered — extremely energetic, dynamic, and capable: high-powered executives.
- hope diamond — a sapphire-blue Indian diamond, the largest blue diamond in the world, weighing 44.5 carats and supposedly cut from a bigger diamond that was once part of the French crown jewels: now in the Smithsonian Institution.
- horned poppy — any of several Eurasian papaveraceous plants of the genera Glaucium and Roemeria, having large brightly coloured flowers and long curved seed capsules
- horned viper — a highly venomous viper, Cerastes cerastes, of northern Africa and extreme southwestern Asia, having a process resembling a horn just above each eye.
- horsewhipped — Simple past tense and past participle of horsewhip.
- hospital bed — a bed having side rails that can be raised or lowered and a mattress base in three jointed sections so that the head, foot, or middle may be raised by a crank or motor, allowing a patient to lie in various positions, as a therapeutic aid or for comfort.
- hospitalised — to place in a hospital for medical care or observation: The doctor hospitalized grandfather as soon as she checked his heart.
- hospitalized — to place in a hospital for medical care or observation: The doctor hospitalized grandfather as soon as she checked his heart.
- hot-tempered — easily angered; short-tempered.
- house spider — any largish dark spider of the genus Tegenaria that is common in houses, such as the cardinal spider
- hydnocarpate — a salt or ester of hydnocarpic acid.
- hydrocephaly — an accumulation of serous fluid within the cranium, especially in infancy, due to obstruction of the movement of cerebrospinal fluid, often causing great enlargement of the head; water on the brain.
- hydrographer — the science of the measurement, description, and mapping of the surface waters of the earth, with special reference to their use for navigation.
- hydrophilite — a white mineral consisting of potassium and calcium
- hydrotherapy — the branch of therapeutics that deals with the curative use of water.
- hyperbolised — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- hyperbolized — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperbolize.
- hyperboloids — Plural form of hyperboloid.
- hyperidrosis — excessive or abnormal sweating
- hyperthyroid — of, relating to, or having hyperthyroidism.
- hypochloride — Misspelling of hypochlorite.
- hypostasised — to assume the reality of (an idea, proposition, etc.); hypostatize.
- hypostatised — to treat or regard (a concept, idea, etc.) as a distinct substance or reality.
- hypostatized — Simple past tense and past participle of hypostatize.
- hypothecated — Simple past tense and past participle of hypothecate.
- hypothesised — to form a hypothesis.
- hypothesized — Simple past tense and past participle of hypothesize.
- ill-disposed — unfriendly, unsympathetic, or having a negative attitude, as toward another person or an idea.
- impardonable — (obsolete) unpardonable.
- imperforated — Also, imperforated. not perforate; having no perforation.
- 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.
- import trade — goods, services and products brought into a country and which were bought from another country
- impoundments — Plural form of impoundment.
- impoverished — reduced to poverty.
- improvidence — not provident; lacking foresight; incautious; unwary.
- incorporated — legally incorporated, as a company.
- indisposable — Not disposable.
- intercropped — Simple past tense and past participle of intercrop.
- interpolated — to introduce (something additional or extraneous) between other things or parts; interject; interpose; intercalate.
- introspected — Simple past tense and past participle of introspect.
- isopropoxide — (chemistry) The univalent anion derived from isopropanol by removal of the hydroxy hydrogen atom; and salt containing this anion.
- jeopardising — Present participle of jeopardise.
- jeopardizing — Present participle of jeopardize.
- jeopardously — with risk or peril
- joe-pye weed — Also called purple boneset. a tall composite weed, Eupatorium purpureum, of North America, having clusters of pinkish or purple flowers.
- 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
- kaleidoscope — an optical instrument in which bits of glass, held loosely at the end of a rotating tube, are shown in continually changing symmetrical forms by reflection in two or more mirrors set at angles to each other.
- lampadedromy — (in ancient Greece) a relay race in which the runners or riders carried a lighted torch
- lap dissolve — dissolve (def 17).