12-letter words containing p, e, d, a
- badger plane — a plane for finishing rabbets or the like.
- baked potato — a large potato baked in its skin
- bald cypress — a tree, Taxodium distichum, of swampy areas of the southern U.S., having featherlike needles and cone-shaped projections growing up from the roots, yielding a hardwood used in construction, shipbuilding, etc.
- ballad opera — an opera consisting of popular tunes to which appropriate words have been set, interspersed with spoken dialogue
- band of hope — a society promoting lifelong abstention from alcohol among young people: founded in Britain in 1847
- bank deposit — money placed in a bank account
- basidiospore — one of the spores, usually four in number, produced in a basidium
- bedside lamp — a lamp beside a bed
- bespectacled — Someone who is bespectacled is wearing glasses.
- black powder — gunpowder as used in sports involving modern muzzleloading firearms
- bladder kelp — any of various giant brown algae with air bladders that buoy up the leafy portions
- blood sample — an amount of a person's blood taken from their body for use in medical tests
- body repairs — repairs to the bodywork of cars
- bog asphodel — either of two liliaceous plants, Narthecium ossifragum of Europe or N. americanum of North America, that grow in boggy places and have small yellow flowers and grasslike leaves
- boobytrapped — to set with or as if with a booby trap; attach a booby trap to or in.
- branch depot — one of a several depots receiving stock from the same central supplier
- bridge a gap — to remedy a deficiency
- bridge party — a gathering for the purpose of playing bridge
- broad jumper — a participant in the long jump.
- bumper guard — either of two vertical crosspieces attached to a bumper of a motor vehicle to prevent it from locking bumpers with another vehicle.
- caesalpinoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the Caesalpinoideae, a mainly tropical subfamily of leguminous plants that have irregular flowers: includes carob, senna, brazil, cassia, and poinciana
- calendar api — Calendar Application Programming Interface
- calligraphed — Simple past tense and past participle of calligraph.
- camelopardus — a faint extensive constellation in the N hemisphere close to Ursa Major and Cassiopeia
- campo grande — a city in SW Brazil, capital of Mato Grosso do Sul state on the São Paulo–Corumbá railway: market centre. Pop: 746 000 (2005 est)
- campodeiform — resembling insects of the genus Campodea
- campshedding — to line (the bank of a river) with campshot.
- cancelpoodle — (messaging) (Or Cancelbunny) A manifestation of the Cancelmoose in the form of a more selective (and probably not automated) way to cancel Usenet articles. The term became common during the alt.religion.scientology wars of the mid-90s, during which Cancelpoodles were used. The "poodle" part is an allusion to one of the parties obliquely involved in the fray, who an earlier well-known witticism had compared to "a psychotic poodle".
- candied peel — fruit skin which has been impregnated or encrusted with sugar or syrup, esp that of citrus fruits
- candy stripe — a pattern of bright stripes of one color against a plain background, used chiefly in fabrics.
- cape cod bay — a part of Massachusetts Bay, enclosed by the Cape Cod peninsula.
- cape colored — a South African of mixed European and African or Malayan ancestry.
- cape delgado — a headland on the NE coast of Mozambique
- cape dezhnev — a cape in NE Russia at the E end of Chukchi Peninsula: the northeasternmost point of Asia
- cape nordkyn — a cape in N Norway: the northernmost point of the European mainland
- cape verdean — of or relating to Cape Verde or its inhabitants
- cape-froward — Cape, a cape in S Chile, on the Strait of Magellan: southernmost point of mainland South America.
- capped elbow — a swelling of the elbow of a horse due to irritation caused by the hoof striking the elbow when lying down.
- capraldehyde — (chemistry) decanal.
- captive-bred — bred in captivity
- cardioplegia — deliberate arrest of the action of the heart, as by hypothermia or the injection of chemicals, to enable complex heart surgery to be carried out
- carpetbagged — Simple past tense and past participle of carpetbag.
- cataphracted — covered with an armor of horny or bony plates or scales.
- cedar rapids — a city in the US, in E Iowa. Pop: 122 542 (2003 est)
- cephalopodic — relating to or resembling a cephalopod
- chapter head — printed material appearing before and usually above the text of a chapter, as a title, number, quotation, etc.
- cheddar pink — a low, mat-forming European plant, Dianthus gratianopolitanus, of the pink family, having solitary, fragrant, rose-colored flowers with fringed petals.
- chorus pedal — an electronic device that creates the effect of more than one sound from a single source by combining a short delay with slight deviations in pitch
- cigar-shaped — resembling a cigar in shape
- cinder patch — a defect on steel caused by the accidental picking up of matter, as from the bottom of a soaking pit.