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12-letter words containing p, a, s, d, c

  • pandanaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Pandanaceae, an Old World tropical family of monocotyledonous plants including the screw pines
  • paradisaical — paradisiacal.
  • paradisiacal — of, like, or befitting paradise.
  • parascending — parasailing
  • parasiticide — an agent or preparation that destroys parasites.
  • pas d'action — a dramatic, pantomimic dance sequence serving to advance the plot.
  • pascal-linda — Ian Flockhart, U Edinburgh, 1991. Under development.
  • peccadilloes — a very minor or slight sin or offense; a trifling fault.
  • pericarditis — inflammation of the pericardium.
  • phosphatidic — of or relating to a phosphatide
  • plaid screen — [XEROX PARC] A "special effect" that occurs when certain kinds of memory smashes overwrite the control blocks or image memory of a bit-mapped display. The term "salt and pepper" may refer to a different pattern of similar origin. Though the term as coined at PARC refers to the result of an error, some of the X demos induce plaid-screen effects deliberately as a display hack.
  • plattdeutsch — the Low German vernacular dialects spoken in northern Germany.
  • postaccident — occurring after an accident
  • postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
  • postcardware — Shareware that borders on freeware, in that the author requests only that satisfied users send a postcard of their home town or something. (This practice, silly as it might seem, serves to remind users that they are otherwise getting something for nothing, and may also be psychologically related to real estate "sales" in which $1 changes hands just to keep the transaction from being a gift.)
  • postdoctoral — of or relating to study or professional work undertaken after the receipt of a doctorate: postdoctoral courses.
  • predischarge — of or pertaining to the period prior to discharge, esp prior to discharge from hospital or from employment
  • proboscidate — having a proboscis.
  • proboscidean — pertaining to or resembling a proboscis.
  • process data — data processing
  • producer gas — a mixture of carbon monoxide and nitrogen produced by passing air over hot coke, used mainly as a fuel
  • promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
  • prosodically — in a prosodic manner
  • prussic acid — weakly acidic extremely poisonous aqueous solution of hydrogen cyanide
  • pseudocereal — any of several plants, as buckwheat and quinoa, that produce fruits and seeds used as flour but are not of the grass family.
  • pseudoscalar — a scalar quantity that changes sign when the sense of the orientation of the coordinate system is changed.
  • puy de sancy — a mountain in S central France: highest peak of the Monts Dore. Height: 1886 m (6188 ft)
  • re-landscape — a section or expanse of rural scenery, usually extensive, that can be seen from a single viewpoint.
  • sapindaceous — belonging to the Sapindaceae, the soapberry family of plants.
  • scouring pad — a small pad, as of steel wool or plastic mesh, used for scouring pots, pans, etc.
  • scrap dealer — a person who deals in scrap
  • scraperboard — scratchboard.
  • scratchpad i — (language)   A general-purpose language originally for interactive symbolic mathematics by Richard Jenks, Barry Trager, Stephen M. Watt and Robert S. Sutor of IBM Research, ca 1971. It features abstract parametrised data types, multiple inheritance and polymorphism. There were implementations for VM/CMS and AIX.
  • scsi adaptor — (hardware)   (Or "host adaptor") A device that communicates between a computer and its SCSI peripherals. The SCSI adaptor is usually assigned SCSI ID 7. It is often a separate card that is connected to the computer's bus (e.g. PCI, ISA, PCMCIA) though increasinly, SCSI adaptors are built in to the motherboard. Apart from being cheaper, busses like PCI are too slow to keep up with the newer SCSI standards like Ultra SCSI and Ultra-Wide SCSI. There are several varieties of SCSI (and their connectors) and an adaptor will not support them all. The performance of SCSI devices is limited by the speed of the SCSI adaptor and its connection to the computer. An adaptor that plugs into a parallel port is unlikely to be as fast as one incorporated into a motherboard. Fast adaptors use DMA or bus mastering. Some SCSI adaptors include a BIOS to allow PCs to boot from a SCSI hard disk, if their own BIOS supports it. Note that it is not a "SCSI controller" - it does not control the devices, and "SCSI interface" is redundant - the "I" of "SCSI" stands for "interface".
  • seed capital — small sum invested in new business
  • seed capsule — the part of a fruit enclosing the seeds; pericarp
  • send packing — to dismiss peremptorily
  • shadow price — the calculated price of a good or service for which no market price exists
  • speed camera — device that detects speeding traffic
  • spermaticide — spermicide.
  • spermatocide — spermicide.
  • sporadically — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
  • spotted cavy — paca.
  • standing cup — a tall decorative cup of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, having a raised cover.
  • stapedectomy — a microsurgical procedure to relieve deafness by replacing the stapes of the ear with a prosthetic device.
  • subduplicate — of the square root of ratios
  • suicide pact — an agreement between two or more people to commit suicide together.
  • sunday punch — Boxing. the most powerful and effective punch of a boxer, especially the punch used in trying to gain a knockout.
  • supercharged — equipped with a supercharger.
  • the pandects — a digest of Roman civil law in fifty books, compiled for the emperor Justinian in the 6th cent. a.d.; the Digest
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