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12-letter words containing p, e, o, l, s, d

  • indisposable — Not disposable.
  • 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.
  • lap dissolve — dissolve (def 17).
  • leopard seal — a yellowish-gray, spotted seal, Hydrurga leptonyx, of the Antarctic.
  • leopardesses — Plural form of leopardess.
  • lepidosirens — Plural form of lepidosiren.
  • leukopedesis — an outward flow of white blood cells through a blood-vessel wall.
  • ligniperdous — (of insects) wood-destroying
  • lithopedions — Plural form of lithopedion.
  • loose-lipped — tending toward indiscriminate and uninhibited talk.
  • lopsidedness — heavier, larger, or more developed on one side than on the other; unevenly balanced; unsymmetrical.
  • loudspeakers — Plural form of loudspeaker, especially a pair for a left and right channel.
  • low-spirited — depressed; dejected: He is feeling rather low-spirited today.
  • lower depths — a play (1902) by Maxim Gorki.
  • monadelphous — (of stamens) united into one bundle or set by their filaments.
  • needlepoints — Plural form of needlepoint.
  • nucleocapsid — the nucleic acid core and surrounding capsid of a virus; the basic viral structure.
  • oil deposits — reserves of petroleum found underground (or under the sea)
  • oilseed rape — Oilseed rape is a plant with yellow flowers which is grown as a crop. Its seeds are crushed to make cooking oil.
  • outside loop — a loop during which the back of the airplane is on the outer side of the curve described by the course of flight.
  • overdevelops — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overdevelop.
  • overlordship — a person who is lord over another or over other lords: to obey the will of one's sovereign and overlord.
  • peccadilloes — a very minor or slight sin or offense; a trifling fault.
  • perez galdos — Benito [buh-nee-toh;; Spanish be-nee-taw] /bəˈni toʊ;; Spanish bɛˈni tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1843–1920, Spanish journalist, dramatist, and novelist.
  • perfidiously — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
  • personalised — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
  • personalized — customized
  • petrodollars — Petrodollars are a unit of money used to calculate how much a country has earned by exporting petroleum or natural gas.
  • philomelides — a king of Lesbos who wrestled and killed every opponent until he himself was defeated by Odysseus.
  • plasterboard — a material used for insulating or covering walls, or as a lath, consisting of paper-covered sheets of gypsum and felt.
  • pollutedness — the state of being polluted
  • polydisperse — of or noting a sol that contains particles of different sizes.
  • polyhedrosis — an often fatal disease of certain insect larvae or decapod crustaceans, caused by viruses containing DNA.
  • polysulphide — any sulphide of a metal containing divalent anions in which there are chains of sulphur atoms, as in the polysulphides of sodium, Na2S2, Na2S3, Na2S4, etc
  • polysyndeton — the use of a number of conjunctions in close succession.
  • poodle skirt — 1950s-style woman's circular skirt
  • postal order — money order.
  • postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
  • postdeadline — the time by which something must be finished or submitted; the latest time for finishing something: a five o'clock deadline.
  • postdelivery — of, relating to, or occurring after a delivery
  • poster child — a child appearing on a poster for a charitable organization.
  • postmedieval — occurring or existing after the Middle Ages, of or related to the period after the Middle Ages
  • powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
  • prednisolone — a synthetic glucocorticoid, C 2 1 H 2 8 O 5 , used in various forms to treat inflammation and allergies and in the treatment of acute leukemia, Hodgkin's disease, and lymphomas.
  • pseudoallele — a false allele
  • pseudocereal — any of several plants, as buckwheat and quinoa, that produce fruits and seeds used as flour but are not of the grass family.
  • pseudocoelom — the body cavity of certain invertebrate metazoan animals between the body wall and the intestine, which is not lined with a mesodermal epithelium.
  • pseudopodial — a temporary protrusion of the protoplasm, as of certain protozoans, usually serving as an organ of locomotion or prehension.
  • pseudoscalar — a scalar quantity that changes sign when the sense of the orientation of the coordinate system is changed.
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