12-letter words containing p, a, l, d
- cape delgado — a headland on the NE coast of Mozambique
- capped elbow — a swelling of the elbow of a horse due to irritation caused by the hoof striking the elbow when lying down.
- capraldehyde — (chemistry) decanal.
- cardinalship — The office (or term of office) of a cardinal.
- cardioplegia — deliberate arrest of the action of the heart, as by hypothermia or the injection of chemicals, to enable complex heart surgery to be carried out
- carisoprodol — a crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 12 H 24 N 2 O 4 , used as a muscle relaxant.
- cephalopodic — relating to or resembling a cephalopod
- child's play — something that is easy to do
- chorus pedal — an electronic device that creates the effect of more than one sound from a single source by combining a short delay with slight deviations in pitch
- cladocarpous — pleurocarpous.
- cladosporium — any of the species of fungi in the genus Cladosporium
- clap hold of — to grasp suddenly or forcibly
- clapboarding — Present participle of clapboard.
- clapperboard — A clapperboard consists of two pieces of wood that are connected by a hinge and hit together before each scene when making a film, to make it easier to match the sound and pictures of different scenes.
- cloud-capped — having clouds around the top
- clutch pedal — The clutch pedal is the pedal by which the driver of a vehicle operates the clutch.
- compoundable — That can be compounded.
- conduplicate — folded lengthways on itself
- contemplated — to look at or view with continued attention; observe or study thoughtfully: to contemplate the stars.
- counterplead — to plead the opposite of
- d-s particle — a positively charged meson having a mass 3852 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 4.7 X 10 -13 seconds.
- dactyloscopy — the analysis of fingerprints for the purpose of identification
- dall's sheep — a white-haired wild sheep, Ovis dalli, of mountainous regions of northwestern North America, having curved horns.
- dallapiccola — Luigi (luˈiːdʒi). 1904–75, Italian composer of twelve-tone music. His works include the opera Il Prigioniero (1944–48) and the ballet Marsia (1948)
- damper pedal — a pedal on a piano that when depressed with the foot raises the dampers and permits the strings to vibrate and sustain the tone.
- darwin tulip — a class of tulips having a tall stem and broad, bright-colored flowers with a flat, rectangular base.
- dasyphyllous — (of leaves) hairy or woolly
- day hospital — part of a hospital that offers therapeutic services, where patients usually attend all day but go home or to a hospital ward at night
- dead spindle — a rounded rod, usually of wood, tapering toward each end, used in hand-spinning to twist into thread the fibers drawn from the mass on the distaff, and on which the thread is wound as it is spun.
- death spiral — a period of continuous deterioration that leads ultimately to catastrophic failure or destruction
- decapitalise — to deprive of capital; discourage capital formation; withdraw capital from: The government decapitalized industry with harsh tax policies.
- decapitalize — to make difficult to have or to take away stock or wealth from
- decapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of decapsulate.
- decipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- deckle strap — a strap on each edge of the moving web of paper on a paper-making machine that fixes the width of the paper
- decomposable — to separate or resolve into constituent parts or elements; disintegrate: The bacteria decomposed the milk into its solid and liquid elements.
- deduplicated — Simple past tense and past participle of deduplicate.
- delapidation — Dated form of dilapidation.
- delayed drop — a parachute descent with the opening of the parachute delayed, usually for a predetermined period
- delta-prolog — A Prolog extension with AND-parallelism, don't-know nondeterminism and interprocess communication using synchronous event goals and distributed backtracking.
- dental plate — a dental prosthesis; denture.
- deoppilation — the removal of obstructions
- deoppilative — any drug which removes obstructions in the body
- departmental — Departmental is used to describe the activities, responsibilities, or possessions of a department in a government, company, or other organization.
- dephlegmator — an apparatus used for dephlegmation
- depilatories — Plural form of depilatory.
- depopulating — Present participle of depopulate.
- depopulation — to remove or reduce the population of, as by destruction or expulsion.
- depopulative — That depopulates.
- deposit loan — a loan to cover the cost of a deposit on something such as rented accommodation