12-letter words containing p, d, a
- unprogrammed — a plan of action to accomplish a specified end: a school lunch program.
- unpunctuated — (of written text) lacking punctuation
- unreproached — not reproached, criticized, or scolded
- unsaponified — to convert (a fat) into soap by treating with an alkali.
- unspectacled — lacking spectacles
- unstipulated — to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of agreement (often followed by for).
- unsyncopated — marked by syncopation: syncopated rhythm.
- untrespassed — Law. an unlawful act causing injury to the person, property, or rights of another, committed with force or violence, actual or implied. a wrongful entry upon the lands of another. the action to recover damages for such an injury.
- up and about — to, toward, or in a more elevated position: to climb up to the top of a ladder.
- up and doing — busy; active
- up-and-comer — likely to succeed; bright and industrious: an up-and-coming young executive.
- up-and-under — a high kick forwards followed by a charge to the place where the ball lands
- upper canada — a former British province in Canada 1791–1840: now the S part of Ontario province.
- van der post — Sir Laurens (Jan). 1906–96, South African writer and traveller. His works include the travel books Venture to the Interior (1952), The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958), and Testament to the Bushmen (1984) and the novels The Hunter and the Whale (1967) and The Admiral's Baby (1996)
- velocipedean — someone who rides a velocipede
- video piracy — the unauthorized or prohibited use of audio-visual works covered by copyright law, in a way that violates one of the copyright owner's exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works
- video player — VCR: videotape recorder
- videographer — a person who makes films with a video camera.
- walled plain — a circular or almost circular area on the moon, sometimes with a floor that is depressed, usually partially enclosed by walls that rise to varying heights and that are usually lower than those of a crater.
- warp-knitted — designating a fabric made by warp knitting.
- water spider — a Eurasian spider, Argyroneta aquatica, that spins a web in the form of an air-filled chamber in which it lives submerged in streams and ponds
- waterproofed — Having been made waterproof.
- wave-and-pay — relating to a payment system that uses RFID technology to allow a customer to pay for goods by passing a card in front of a sensor
- wedge-shaped — shaped like a wedge
- well-adapted — to make suitable to requirements or conditions; adjust or modify fittingly: They adapted themselves to the change quickly. He adapted the novel for movies.
- well-planned — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- well-pleased — (used as a polite addition to requests, commands, etc.) if you would be so obliging; kindly: Please come here. Will you please turn the radio off?
- widow's peak — a point formed in the hairline in the middle of the forehead.
- wild apricot — apricot (def 4).
- wild parsley — any of several uncultivated plants resembling the parsley in shape and structure.
- wild parsnip — a strong-smelling umbelliferous plant, Pastinaca sativa, that has an inedible root: the ancestor of the cultivated parsnip
- wild spinach — any of various plants of the genus Chenopodium, sometimes used in place of spinach.
- woolly aphid — any plant louse of the family Aphididae, characterized by a waxy secretion that appears like a jumbled mass of fine, curly, white cottony or woolly threads, as Eriosoma lanigerum (woolly apple aphid or American blight) and Prociphilus tessellatus (woolly alder aphid)
- worlds apart — in different environments