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12-letter words containing p, a, l, d, e

  • postal order — money order.
  • 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.
  • postmedieval — occurring or existing after the Middle Ages, of or related to the period after the Middle Ages
  • powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
  • pre-prandial — You use pre-prandial to refer to things you do or have before a meal.
  • preassembled — assembled prior to purchase
  • precedential — of the nature of or constituting a precedent.
  • premium deal — a commercial transaction in which a special incentive or bonus is offered
  • presidential — of or relating to a president or presidency.
  • procathedral — a church used temporarily as a cathedral.
  • procedurally — of or relating to a procedure or procedures, especially of a court of law, legislative body, or law enforcement agency.
  • profile drag — the sum of the surface friction drag and the form drag for a body moving subsonically through a fluid
  • providential — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
  • prudentially — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or resulting from prudence.
  • pseudoallele — a false allele
  • pseudocereal — any of several plants, as buckwheat and quinoa, that produce fruits and seeds used as flour but are not of the grass family.
  • pseudopodial — a temporary protrusion of the protoplasm, as of certain protozoans, usually serving as an organ of locomotion or prehension.
  • pseudoscalar — a scalar quantity that changes sign when the sense of the orientation of the coordinate system is changed.
  • puzzleheaded — having, deriving from, or characterized by confused thoughts or ideas.
  • pyritohedral — of or relating to a pyritohedron
  • quadraplegic — quadriplegic.
  • quadriplegia — paralysis of all four limbs or of the entire body below the neck.
  • quadriplegic — a person with quadriplegia.
  • quadruplexes — Plural form of quadruplex.
  • quindecaplet — a group of 15
  • railroad pen — a ruling pen for drawing two parallel lines.
  • rapeseed oil — a brownish-yellow oil obtained by expression from rapeseed and used chiefly as a lubricant, an illuminant, and in the manufacture of rubber substitutes.
  • re-landscape — a section or expanse of rural scenery, usually extensive, that can be seen from a single viewpoint.
  • reading lamp — A reading lamp is a small lamp that you keep on a desk or table. You can move part of it in order to direct the light to where you need it for reading.
  • red larkspur — a plant, Delphinium nudicaule, of the buttercup family, native to the western coast of the U.S., having orange-red or sometimes yellow flowers.
  • ripe old age — advanced age
  • saddle point — a point at which a function of two variables has partial derivatives equal to zero but at which the function has neither a maximum nor a minimum value.
  • scrap dealer — a person who deals in scrap
  • seed capital — small sum invested in new business
  • seed capsule — the part of a fruit enclosing the seeds; pericarp
  • shoulder pad — clothing: insert in shoulder
  • sleep around — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
  • sloped roman — a roman (vertical) typeface, usually sans serif, i.e. without the small, decorative, terminal strokes with which some typefaces are designed. The typeface is made to slope (usually to the right), but not generally to the same degree as a true italic typeface
  • snow leopard — a long-haired, leopardlike feline, Panthera (Uncia) uncia, of mountain ranges of central Asia, having a relatively small head and a thick, creamy-gray coat with rosette spots: an endangered species.
  • speedballing — the practice of taking cocaine and heroin together intravenously
  • spider plant — Also called ribbon plant. a plant, Chlorophytum comosum, of the lily family, native to southern Africa, that has long, narrow leaves and clusters of white flowers and is widely cultivated as a houseplant.
  • spotted tail — (Sinte-galeshka) 1833?–81, Brulé Sioux leader.
  • spread eagle — the representation of an eagle with outstretched wings, used as an emblem of the US
  • spread-eagle — having or suggesting the form of a spread eagle.
  • spreadeagled — Someone who is spreadeagled is lying with their arms and legs spread out.
  • stamp dealer — someone who buys and sells postage stamps (to collectors)
  • steel-plated — covered with steel
  • student lamp — a table lamp whose light source can be adjusted in height.
  • subduplicate — of the square root of ratios
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