12-letter words containing p, l, e, a
- 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.
- decapitalize — to make difficult to have or to take away stock or wealth from
- decapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of decapsulate.
- decipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- 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.
- deduplicated — Simple past tense and past participle of deduplicate.
- delapidation — Dated form of dilapidation.
- delayed drop — a parachute descent with the opening of the parachute delayed, usually for a predetermined period
- delta-prolog — A Prolog extension with AND-parallelism, don't-know nondeterminism and interprocess communication using synchronous event goals and distributed backtracking.
- dental plate — a dental prosthesis; denture.
- deoppilation — the removal of obstructions
- deoppilative — any drug which removes obstructions in the body
- departmental — Departmental is used to describe the activities, responsibilities, or possessions of a department in a government, company, or other organization.
- dephlegmator — an apparatus used for dephlegmation
- depilatories — Plural form of depilatory.
- depopulating — Present participle of depopulate.
- depopulation — to remove or reduce the population of, as by destruction or expulsion.
- depopulative — That depopulates.
- deposit loan — a loan to cover the cost of a deposit on something such as rented accommodation
- depositional — of or relating to a deposition
- dermaplaning — a cosmetic treatment, often used to treat acne scars, in which surface irregularities are surgically scraped to give the skin a smoother appearance
- 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.
- dicarpellary — having two carpels
- diencephalic — Of or pertaining to the diencephalon.
- diencephalon — the posterior section of the forebrain.
- dinner plate — a plate for holding an individual serving of the main course of a meal.
- dip the flag — to salute by lowering a flag briefly
- dipropellant — bipropellant.
- dipyridamole — a yellow crystalline powder, C 24 H 40 N 8 O 4 , used prophylactically for angina pectoris and in combination with other drugs to reduce thrombus formation.
- dispatchable — Capable of being dispatched.
- displaceable — Capable of being displaced.
- displacement — the act of displacing.
- display case — glass box, cabinet
- display type — type larger than body type, used in headings, advertisements, etc.
- displeasance — the state or cause of being displeased
- displeasedly — in a displeased manner
- disreputable — not reputable; having a bad reputation: a disreputable barroom.
- disreputably — In a disreputable manner.
- dockwalloper — longshoreman
- 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
- doppelganger — a ghostly double or counterpart of a living person.
- doppleganger — Misspelling of doppelganger.
- double sharp — a symbol (× or ) that raises by two semitones the pitch of the following note.
- double-space — to type (text, copy, etc.) leaving a full space between lines: Always double-space a term paper.
- drapeability — to cover or hang with cloth or other fabric, especially in graceful folds; adorn with drapery.