12-letter words containing p, a, s, d
- hypostatized — Simple past tense and past participle of hypostatize.
- iceland spar — a transparent variety of calcite that is double-refracting and is used as a polarizer.
- imparadising — Present participle of imparadise.
- imperialised — Simple past tense and past participle of imperialise.
- impersonated — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
- in spadefuls — in an extreme or emphatic way
- incapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of incapsulate.
- 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.
- jeopardising — Present participle of jeopardise.
- jeopardously — with risk or peril
- 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.
- lady-slipper — cypripedium
- land plaster — finely ground gypsum, used chiefly as a fertilizer.
- 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.
- lap dissolve — dissolve (def 17).
- lapidescence — a lapidescent quality or condition
- lapidicolous — living under stones
- leopard seal — a yellowish-gray, spotted seal, Hydrurga leptonyx, of the Antarctic.
- leopardesses — Plural form of leopardess.
- lesser panda — panda (def 2).
- loudspeakers — Plural form of loudspeaker, especially a pair for a left and right channel.
- madreporites — Plural form of madreporite.
- magnoliopsid — (botany) a member of the class Magnoliopsida. Circumscription of this class will vary with the taxonomic system being used.
- manspreading — the practice by a male passenger on public transport of sitting with his legs wide apart, so denying space to passengers beside him
- mass-produce — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- 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.
- mediatorship — the position of a mediator
- mesoappendix — the mesentery of the vermiform appendix.
- misapprehend — to misunderstand.
- mispleadings — Plural form of mispleading.
- monadelphous — (of stamens) united into one bundle or set by their filaments.
- mousetrapped — Simple past tense and past participle of mousetrap.
- muckspreader — a machine for spreading manure over farmland
- needle-sharp — very sharp
- newspaperdom — The realm or sphere of newspaper publishing or journalism.
- 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.
- oilseed rape — Oilseed rape is a plant with yellow flowers which is grown as a crop. Its seeds are crushed to make cooking oil.
- old prussian — a Baltic language extinct since the 17th century. Abbreviation: OPruss.
- on shipboard — on board a ship
- onion-shaped — bulb-shaped; shaped like an onion
- 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.