12-letter words containing p, l, a, s
- compliancies — compliance (defs 1, 2, 4).
- compulsative — compulsory
- compulsatory — compulsory
- contemplates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contemplate.
- copperplates — Plural form of copperplate.
- corporealism — materialism
- corporealist — a materialist
- corrivalship — the position of a corrival
- cosmoplastic — forming the universe or the world
- cosmopolitan — A cosmopolitan place or society is full of people from many different countries and cultures.
- cottian alps — a mountain range in SW Europe, between NW Italy and SE France: part of the Alps. Highest peak: Monte Viso, 3841 m (12 600 ft)
- counterpleas — Plural form of counterplea.
- craftspeople — Craftspeople are people who make things skilfully with their hands.
- cranioplasty — Surgical repair of a defect or deformity in the skull.
- cryptanalyst — the procedures, processes, methods, etc., used to translate or interpret secret writings, as codes and ciphers, for which the key is unknown.
- culpableness — The state or quality of being culpable.
- curtail step — the step or steps at the foot of a flight of stairs, widened at one or both ends and terminated with a scroll
- curtail-step — a horizontal, spiral termination to the lower end of a stair railing.
- d-s particle — a positively charged meson having a mass 3852 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 4.7 X 10 -13 seconds.
- dactyloscopy — the analysis of fingerprints for the purpose of identification
- dall's sheep — a white-haired wild sheep, Ovis dalli, of mountainous regions of northwestern North America, having curved horns.
- dasyphyllous — (of leaves) hairy or woolly
- day hospital — part of a hospital that offers therapeutic services, where patients usually attend all day but go home or to a hospital ward at night
- dead spindle — a rounded rod, usually of wood, tapering toward each end, used in hand-spinning to twist into thread the fibers drawn from the mass on the distaff, and on which the thread is wound as it is spun.
- death spiral — a period of continuous deterioration that leads ultimately to catastrophic failure or destruction
- decapitalise — to deprive of capital; discourage capital formation; withdraw capital from: The government decapitalized industry with harsh tax policies.
- decapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of decapsulate.
- deckle strap — a strap on each edge of the moving web of paper on a paper-making machine that fixes the width of the paper
- decomposable — to separate or resolve into constituent parts or elements; disintegrate: The bacteria decomposed the milk into its solid and liquid elements.
- depilatories — Plural form of depilatory.
- deposit loan — a loan to cover the cost of a deposit on something such as rented accommodation
- depositional — of or relating to a deposition
- desmoplastic — (pathology) That produces adhesions.
- despairingly — given to despair or hopelessness.
- despoliation — the act of despoiling; plunder or pillage
- despotically — of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
- diaphanously — In a diaphanous manner or to a diaphanous extent.
- dinaric alps — a mountain range in W Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Serbia: connected with the main Alpine system by the Julian Alps. Highest peak: Troglav, 1913 m (6277 ft)
- diploblastic — having two germ layers, the ectoderm and endoderm, as the embryos of sponges and coelenterates.
- diplomatists — Plural form of diplomatist.
- disciplinant — a person belonging to a former order of flagellants in Spain
- disciplinary — of, for, or constituting discipline; enforcing or administering discipline: disciplinary action.
- disculpating — Present participle of disculpate.
- dismal swamp — a swamp in SE Virginia and NE North Carolina. About 30 miles (48 km) long; about 600 sq. mi. (1500 sq. km).
- dispatchable — Capable of being dispatched.
- displaceable — Capable of being displaced.
- displacement — the act of displacing.
- display case — glass box, cabinet
- display hack — (graphics) A program with the same approximate purpose as a kaleidoscope: to make pretty pictures. Famous display hacks include munching squares, smoking clover, the BSD Unix "rain(6)" program, "worms(6)" on miscellaneous Unixes, and the X "kaleid(1)" program. Display hacks can also be implemented without programming by creating text files containing numerous escape sequences for interpretation by a video terminal; one notable example displayed, on any VT100, a Christmas tree with twinkling lights and a toy train circling its base. The hack value of a display hack is proportional to the aesthetic value of the images times the cleverness of the algorithm divided by the size of the code. Synonym psychedelicware.
- display pack — an empty box, etc, on a shop shelf, advertising a piece of merchandise that, due to its value or size, is not stored on the shelf. The display pack is normally taken to the till and there exchanged, on payment, for the actual item