12-letter words containing p, a, n, d, r, e
- draftsperson — a person employed in making mechanical drawings, especially in an architectural or engineering firm.
- drapetomania — (dated) an overwhelming urge to run away (from home, a bad situation, responsibility, etc.).
- dwarf planet — a spherical celestial body revolving about the sun, similar to a planet but not large enough to gravitationally clear its orbital region of most or all other celestial bodies. Pluto is a dwarf planet.
- eden prairie — a town in SE Minnesota.
- elephantbird — Alternative form of elephant bird.
- endoparasite — A parasite, such as a tapeworm, that lives inside its host.
- ephemeridian — relating to ephemera
- fernando póo — Bioko
- garden party — a party given out of doors in a garden or yard.
- giant powder — dynamite composed of nitroglycerin and kieselguhr.
- grandnephews — Plural form of grandnephew.
- grandparents — a parent of a parent.
- ground plane — (in perspective drawing) the theoretical horizontal plane receding from the picture plane to the horizon, beginning at the level of the base line.
- ground plate — Electricity. a metal plate for making a ground connection to the earth.
- hairpin bend — A hairpin bend or a hairpin is a very sharp bend in a road, where the road turns back in the opposite direction.
- hand-printed — (of numbers, letters, or designs) printed, or put on a surface, by hand rather than by machine
- handicappers — Plural form of handicapper.
- handypersons — Plural form of handyperson.
- hepadnavirus — Any member of the virus family Hepadnaviridae, capable of causing liver infections in humans and animals.
- heptahedrons — Plural form of heptahedron.
- hydnocarpate — a salt or ester of hydnocarpic acid.
- hyperdynamic — (physiology) Describing an increase in both blood pressure and pulse pressure.
- iceland spar — a transparent variety of calcite that is double-refracting and is used as a polarizer.
- impardonable — (obsolete) unpardonable.
- 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.
- incorporated — legally incorporated, as a company.
- 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.
- jeopardising — Present participle of jeopardise.
- jeopardizing — Present participle of jeopardize.
- land plaster — finely ground gypsum, used chiefly as a fertilizer.
- landed price — the price when delivered
- lepidopteran — lepidopterous.
- lesser panda — panda (def 2).
- linen draper — a dry-goods merchant.
- liverpudlian — a seaport in Merseyside, in W England, on the Mersey estuary.
- malimprinted — (of an animal or person) suffering from a defect in the behavioural process of imprinting, resulting in attraction to members of other species, fetishism, etc
- manspreading — the practice by a male passenger on public transport of sitting with his legs wide apart, so denying space to passengers beside him
- meanspirited — petty; small-minded; ungenerous: a meanspirited man, unwilling to forgive.
- media person — a person who works in the mass media
- median strip — a paved, planted, or landscaped strip in the center of a highway that separates lanes of traffic going in opposite directions.
- misapprehend — to misunderstand.
- name-dropper — a person who indulges in name-dropping.
- needle-sharp — very sharp
- new paradigm — a set of beliefs that replaces another set which is believed no longer to apply
- newspaperdom — The realm or sphere of newspaper publishing or journalism.
- nordkyn cape — Cape, a cape in N Norway, E of North Cape: northernmost point of the European mainland.
- normed space — any vector space on which a norm is defined.