12-letter words containing p, l, a, y
- 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
- display type — type larger than body type, used in headings, advertisements, etc.
- displeasedly — in a displeased manner
- disreputably — In a disreputable manner.
- doggy paddle — a swimming stroke in which the swimmer lies on his or her front, paddles his or her hands in imitation of a swimming dog, and beats his or her legs up and down
- drapeability — to cover or hang with cloth or other fabric, especially in graceful folds; adorn with drapery.
- dyslipidemia — (medicine) an inbalance of lipids (especially cholesterol) in the blood; hypercholesterolemia.
- elliptically — In the form of an ellipse.
- empathically — In an empathic manner.
- emphatically — In a forceful way.
- encyclopedia — An encyclopedia is a book or set of books in which facts about many different subjects or about one particular subject are arranged for reference, usually in alphabetical order.
- entropically — By means of or in relation to entropy.
- ephemerality — (uncountable) The state or condition of being ephemeral; transience.
- epicycloidal — Of or pertaining to an epicycloid.
- epidemically — In the manner of an epidemic.
- episodically — In an episodic manner; in episodes.
- epoxylignane — (organic chemistry) Any lignane in which the two \u03b3-carbon atoms of the side chains are linked via an oxygen atom to form a tetrahydrofuran ring.
- eucalyptuses — Plural form of eucalyptus.
- euphonically — In a euphonic manner.
- euphorically — In a euphoric manner.
- explain away — If someone explains away a mistake or a bad situation they are responsible for, they try to indicate that it is unimportant or that it is not really their fault.
- extemporally — In an extemporal manner.
- filial piety — (in Confucianism) the important virtue and primary duty of respect, obedience, and care for one's parents and elderly family members.
- film company — a company dedicated to the making of motion pictures
- flaky pastry — variety of puff pastry
- fluorography — photofluorography.
- funeral pyre — bonfire for cremation
- galley proof — a proof, originally one set from type in a galley, taken before the material has been made up into pages and usually printed as a single column of type with wide margins for marking corrections.
- gamophyllous — having leaves united by their edges.
- gastroplasty — any plastic surgery on the stomach.
- get anyplace — to have any success
- glossography — a glossator.
- glyphography — a plate-making process in which an electrotype is made from an engraved copper plate
- glyptography — the description or study of engraved gems or other stones.
- gold therapy — administration of gold salts as a treatment for disease, especially rheumatoid arthritis.
- grape family — the plant family Vitaceae, characterized by woody climbing vines with tendrils, having alternate, simple or compound leaves, and bearing clusters of small flowers and berries, and including Boston ivy, grape, grape ivy, and Virginia creeper.
- guilty party — the person or people responsible for an offence or misdeed
- happy couple — two people in a happy romantic relationship, especially two people who have just married
- happy-clappy — of or denoting a form of evangelical Christianity in which members of the congregation sing and clap enthusiastically during acts of worship
- heliotherapy — treatment of disease by means of sunlight.
- hepaticology — the scientific study of bryophyte plants known as hepatics or liverworts
- hepatomegaly — an abnormal enlargement of the liver, usually associated with liver disease or heart failure.
- hernioplasty — an operation for the repair of a hernia.
- heteroplasty — the repair of lesions with tissue from another individual or species.
- holiday camp — In Britain, a holiday camp is a place which provides holiday accommodation and entertainment for large numbers of people.
- horseplayers — Plural form of horseplayer.
- hydrocephaly — an accumulation of serous fluid within the cranium, especially in infancy, due to obstruction of the movement of cerebrospinal fluid, often causing great enlargement of the head; water on the brain.
- hydroplaning — a seaplane.
- hydrosalpinx — A distally blocked Fallopian tube filled with serous or clear fluid.
- hymenoplasty — (medicine) Plastic surgery affecting a woman's hymen, usually involving reconstruction to the unbroken condition ordinarily characteristic of virginity.