12-letter words containing p, a, s, d, c
- dictatorship — Dictatorship is government by a dictator.
- dinaric alps — a mountain range in W Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Serbia: connected with the main Alpine system by the Julian Alps. Highest peak: Troglav, 1913 m (6277 ft)
- diploblastic — having two germ layers, the ectoderm and endoderm, as the embryos of sponges and coelenterates.
- dipsacaceous — belonging to the Dipsacaceae, the teasel family of plants.
- dipsomaniacs — Plural form of dipsomaniac.
- disceptation — (archaic) Controversy; disputation; discussion.
- disciplinant — a person belonging to a former order of flagellants in Spain
- disciplinary — of, for, or constituting discipline; enforcing or administering discipline: disciplinary action.
- discographer — a person who compiles discographies.
- discographic — of or relating to a discography
- discorporate — Having no material body.
- discrepances — Plural form of discrepance.
- disculpating — Present participle of disculpate.
- dispatch box — a case or box used to hold valuables or documents, esp official state documents
- dispatchable — Capable of being dispatched.
- displaceable — Capable of being displaced.
- displacement — the act of displacing.
- display case — glass box, cabinet
- display hack — (graphics) A program with the same approximate purpose as a kaleidoscope: to make pretty pictures. Famous display hacks include munching squares, smoking clover, the BSD Unix "rain(6)" program, "worms(6)" on miscellaneous Unixes, and the X "kaleid(1)" program. Display hacks can also be implemented without programming by creating text files containing numerous escape sequences for interpretation by a video terminal; one notable example displayed, on any VT100, a Christmas tree with twinkling lights and a toy train circling its base. The hack value of a display hack is proportional to the aesthetic value of the images times the cleverness of the algorithm divided by the size of the code. Synonym psychedelicware.
- display pack — an empty box, etc, on a shop shelf, advertising a piece of merchandise that, due to its value or size, is not stored on the shelf. The display pack is normally taken to the till and there exchanged, on payment, for the actual item
- displeasance — the state or cause of being displeased
- disprivacied — deprived of privacy
- door scraper — a small horizontal bar fixed to the ground near a door where visitors can scrape mud from their shoes before entering
- double-space — to type (text, copy, etc.) leaving a full space between lines: Always double-space a term paper.
- duplications — Plural form of duplication.
- encapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of encapsulate.
- epidiascopes — Plural form of epidiascope.
- episodically — In an episodic manner; in episodes.
- gapped scale — a scale, such as a pentatonic scale, containing fewer than seven notes
- handicappeds — Plural form of handicapped.
- handicappers — Plural form of handicapper.
- harpsichords — Plural form of harpsichord.
- iceland spar — a transparent variety of calcite that is double-refracting and is used as a polarizer.
- incapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of incapsulate.
- 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.
- landscapists — Plural form of landscapist.
- lapidescence — a lapidescent quality or condition
- lapidicolous — living under stones
- mass-produce — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- muckspreader — a machine for spreading manure over farmland
- normed space — any vector space on which a norm is defined.
- nucleocapsid — the nucleic acid core and surrounding capsid of a virus; the basic viral structure.
- octapeptides — Plural form of octapeptide.
- optical disc — Also, optical disc. Also called laser disk. a grooveless disk on which digital data, as text, music, or pictures, is stored as tiny pits in the surface and is read or replayed by a laser beam scanning the surface.
- optical disk — Also, optical disc. Also called laser disk. a grooveless disk on which digital data, as text, music, or pictures, is stored as tiny pits in the surface and is read or replayed by a laser beam scanning the surface.
- orthopaedics — (used with a singular verb) the medical specialty concerned with correction of deformities or functional impairments of the skeletal system, especially the extremities and the spine, and associated structures, as muscles and ligaments.
- pachydermous — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
- paedodontics — the branch of dentistry that focuses on the care of children's teeth
- paludicolous — inhabiting marshland
- pan and scan — a technique for changing the aspect ratio of a wide-screen film, usually by selecting the significant section of each film frame and cropping the sides, so that it can be transmitted in 4:3 aspect ratio.