12-letter words containing p, d, a
- the pandects — a digest of Roman civil law in fifty books, compiled for the emperor Justinian in the 6th cent. a.d.; the Digest
- to drop dead — If you tell someone to drop dead, you are insulting them, rudely disagreeing with them, or refusing to do something, or telling them to stop bothering you.
- to stop dead — To stop dead means to suddenly stop happening or moving. To stop someone or something dead means to cause them to suddenly stop happening or moving.
- top and tail — method of washing a baby
- torpedo boat — a small, fast, highly maneuverable boat used for torpedoing enemy shipping.
- tradespeople — people engaged in trade, esp shopkeepers
- tradesperson — a skilled worker
- trading post — a store established in an unsettled or thinly settled region by a trader or trading company to obtain furs and local products in exchange for supplies, clothing, other goods, or for cash.
- tread a path — If you tread a particular path, you take a particular course of action or do something in a particular way.
- trepidations — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- trepidatious — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
- trial period — time during which sth can be evaluated
- tricuspidate — having three cusps or flaps.
- tripudiation — the act of dancing for joy
- tropicalised — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- tropicalized — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- trypanocidal — (of a drug, agent, activity, etc) effective in killing trypanosomes
- tryparsamide — a white, crystalline powder, C 8 H 10 O 4 N 2 AsNa·½H 2 , used chiefly in treating African sleeping sickness.
- twin paradox — a phenomenon predicted by relativity. One of a pair of identical twins is supposed to live normally in an inertial system whilst the other is accelerated to a high speed in a spaceship, travels for a long time, and finally returns to rest beside his twin. The travelled twin will be found to be younger than his brother
- twisted pair — A twisted pair is a pair of wires that are twisted together to reduce interference.
- twitterpated — excited or overcome by romantic feelings; smitten.
- typhoid mary — Mary ("Typhoid Mary") 1869?–1938, U.S. cook, born in Ireland: known immune carrier of typhoid fever who infected many with the disease, institutionalized in 1914.
- unapparelled — lacking clothing; unattired
- unapproached — not approached; not able to be approached or neared
- unchaperoned — not chaperoned; not accompanied by a chaperone
- undependable — capable of being depended on; worthy of trust; reliable: a dependable employee.
- underlapping — to extend partly under.
- underpassion — an underlying or subconscious passion
- undersparred — having spars too small to carry the necessary sail.
- undespairing — not despairing; not giving in to despair
- undiplomatic — of, relating to, or engaged in diplomacy: diplomatic officials.
- undispatched — not dispatched; not delivered or sent out
- undisputable — capable of being disputed; debatable; questionable.
- undissipated — indulging in or characterized by excessive devotion to pleasure; intemperate; dissolute.
- unduplicated — a copy exactly like an original.
- unemphasized — to give emphasis to; lay stress upon; stress: to emphasize a point; to emphasize the eyes with mascara.
- unexpendable — essential; absolutely required: unexpendable resources vital to our security.
- unexpurgated — to amend by removing words, passages, etc., deemed offensive or objectionable: Most children read an expurgated version of Grimms' fairy tales.
- unhyphenated — without a hyphen
- united party — (formerly, in South Africa) the major opposition party, founded by General Smuts in 1934: the official Opposition in Parliament from 1948, the party was disbanded in 1977
- unparalleled — not paralleled; unequaled or unmatched; peerless; unprecedented: unparalleled athletic ability.
- unpardonable — kind indulgence, as in forgiveness of an offense or discourtesy or in tolerance of a distraction or inconvenience: I beg your pardon, but which way is Spruce Street?
- unpardonably — in a manner that is not excusable; disgracefully
- unpatronized — having few or no patrons
- unpavilioned — not provided with a pavilion
- unperforated — pierced with a hole or holes: Punch out along the perforated line.
- unpredicated — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
- unprocedural — not procedural, not following proper procedures
- unproclaimed — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.