12-letter words containing p, a, n, d
- 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.
- hydnocarpate — a salt or ester of hydnocarpic acid.
- hydroplaning — a seaplane.
- hydrosalpinx — A distally blocked Fallopian tube filled with serous or clear fluid.
- hyperdynamic — (physiology) Describing an increase in both blood pressure and pulse pressure.
- hypochondria — Also, hypochondriasis [hahy-poh-kuh n-drahy-uh-sis] /ˌhaɪ poʊ kənˈdraɪ ə sɪs/ (Show IPA). Psychiatry. an excessive preoccupation with one's health, usually focusing on some particular symptom, as cardiac or gastric problems.
- hypogonadism — diminished hormonal or reproductive functioning in the testes or the ovaries.
- iceland spar — a transparent variety of calcite that is double-refracting and is used as a polarizer.
- imparadising — Present participle of imparadise.
- impardonable — (obsolete) unpardonable.
- impedimental — Of the nature of an impediment; hindering or obstructing.
- 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.
- in duplicate — in two copies, times two
- in good part — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- in spadefuls — in an extreme or emphatic way
- inadaptation — the state of not being adapted or the lack of adaptation
- incapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of incapsulate.
- incorporated — legally incorporated, as a company.
- indianapolis — Robert (Robert Clarke) born 1928, U.S. painter of pop art.
- indisposable — Not disposable.
- indisputable — not disputable or deniable; uncontestable. indisputable evidence.
- indisputably — not disputable or deniable; uncontestable. indisputable evidence.
- indo-pacific — of or relating to the areas of the Indian and Pacific oceans off the coast of SE Asia.
- 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.
- jaw-dropping — Something that is jaw-dropping is extremely surprising, impressive, or shocking.
- jeopardising — Present participle of jeopardise.
- jeopardizing — Present participle of jeopardize.
- 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
- lambda point — the temperature of approximately 2.186 K, at which the transition from helium I to superfluid helium II occurs.
- lampadomancy — a method of divination by studying the carbon deposits left by a burning lamp or candle
- land plaster — finely ground gypsum, used chiefly as a fertilizer.
- landed price — the price when delivered
- landing flap — a flap in the undersurface of the trailing edge of an aircraft wing, capable of being moved downward to increase either lift or drag or both, as for landing. Compare split flap (def 1).
- landing page — a web page that a user is directed to after clicking on an external hyperlink, often a page designed especially for marketing purposes: Their landing page asks for your email address and automatically enters you into a $1,000 cash drawing.
- landing ship — any of various ships designed for transporting troops and heavy equipment in amphibious warfare, capable of making assault landings directly onto a beach.
- landscapists — Plural form of landscapist.
- lapidescence — a lapidescent quality or condition
- lapped joint — a joint made by placing one member over another and fastening them together
- lepidomelane — (mineralogy) A black iron-potash mica, usually found in granitic rocks in small six-sided tables, or as an aggregation of minute opaque scales.
- 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.
- loading ramp — a ramp that is used for loading a ship
- london plane — a tall, hardy, widely spreading plane tree, Platanus acerifolia, of North America, having clusters of round, bristly fruit.
- lymphadenoma — an enlarged lymph node.
- magnetic dip — to plunge (something, as a cloth or sponge) temporarily into a liquid, so as to moisten it, dye it, or cause it to take up some of the liquid: He dipped the brush into the paint bucket.