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12-letter words containing p, d, s

  • puy de sancy — a mountain in S central France: highest peak of the Monts Dore. Height: 1886 m (6188 ft)
  • quadruplexes — Plural form of quadruplex.
  • quickstepped — Simple past tense and past participle of quickstep.
  • radioisotope — a radioactive isotope, usually artificially produced: used in physical and biological research, therapeutics, etc.
  • radiophonist — a person who produces radiophonic music
  • rapeseed oil — a brownish-yellow oil obtained by expression from rapeseed and used chiefly as a lubricant, an illuminant, and in the manufacture of rubber substitutes.
  • re-deposited — to place for safekeeping or in trust, especially in a bank account: He deposited his paycheck every Friday.
  • re-landscape — a section or expanse of rural scenery, usually extensive, that can be seen from a single viewpoint.
  • red larkspur — a plant, Delphinium nudicaule, of the buttercup family, native to the western coast of the U.S., having orange-red or sometimes yellow flowers.
  • redemptorist — a member of the “Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer,” founded by St. Alphonsus Liguori in 1732.
  • redispose of — to dispose of again
  • reemphasized — to give emphasis to; lay stress upon; stress: to emphasize a point; to emphasize the eyes with mascara.
  • residentship — a person who resides in a place.
  • resplendence — a resplendent quality or state; splendor.
  • respondentia — a loan upon a ship's cargo, which is repaid with interest if the ship reaches its destination, and if the ship does not, the loan is not repaid
  • rhabdosphere — a minute sphere made up of rhabdoliths
  • road sweeper — a person who sweeps roads
  • rubbish dump — a place or area where waste materials are dumped
  • saddle point — a point at which a function of two variables has partial derivatives equal to zero but at which the function has neither a maximum nor a minimum value.
  • safe-deposit — providing safekeeping for valuables: a safe-deposit vault.
  • sago pudding — a sweet pudding made with sago and milk
  • sand springs — a town in NE Oklahoma.
  • sand-sprayed — noting an exterior wall finish composed of mortar to which is added a mixture of sand and cement in equal parts while the mortar is still wet.
  • sandpainting — a type of painting done by American Indians, esp in the healing ceremonies of the Navaho, using fine coloured sand on a neutral ground
  • sandpapering — the act or process of polishing or grinding a surface with or as if with sandpaper
  • sapindaceous — belonging to the Sapindaceae, the soapberry family of plants.
  • schizopodous — of or relating to a schizopod
  • scolopendrid — any myriapod of the order Scolopendrida, including many large, poisonous centipedes.
  • 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".
  • secchi depth — the depth at which a Secchi disk is no longer visible from the surface of ocean water.
  • seed capital — small sum invested in new business
  • seed capsule — the part of a fruit enclosing the seeds; pericarp
  • self-imposed — imposed on one by oneself: a self-imposed task.
  • self-powered — (of a machine, vehicle, etc.) having a specified fuel or prime mover: a gasoline-powered engine; an engine-powered pump.
  • semideponent — (of a Latin verb) active in meaning but passive in form in the perfect tense
  • semipellucid — somewhat pellucid; partially translucent or transparent
  • send packing — to dismiss peremptorily
  • serendipiter — an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.
  • shadow price — the calculated price of a good or service for which no market price exists
  • shadowgraphy — the production of a shadowgraph
  • sharp-witted — having or showing mental acuity; intellectually discerning; acute.
  • sheepherding — the act of herding or tending sheep
  • shepherd boy — male child who herds sheep
  • shepherd dog — sheepdog.
  • shepherdless — lacking a shepherd
  • shepherdling — a young or little shepherd
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