12-letter words containing p, l, y, i
- cheiloplasty — plastic surgery of the lip.
- child's play — something that is easy to do
- chip jewelry — (jargon) A euphamism for old computers destined to be scrapped or turned into decorative ornaments. "I paid three grand for that Mac SE, and now it's nothing but chip jewelry."
- chlorpyrifos — a broad-spectrum insecticide, C 9 H 11 Cl 3 NO 3 PS, used on lawns and ornamental plants.
- compellingly — in a way that demands attention and interest
- compulsively — compelling; compulsory.
- compulsivity — compulsiveness
- compulsorily — required; mandatory; obligatory: compulsory education.
- contemptibly — deserving of or held in contempt; despicable.
- copolymerise — Alt form copolymerize.
- copolymerize — to react (two compounds) together to produce a copolymer
- corporeality — the state or quality of being corporeal; bodily existence
- corruptively — In a corruptive way.
- cranioplasty — Surgical repair of a defect or deformity in the skull.
- cryptologist — cryptography.
- cyclographic — of or relating to a cyclograph
- cyclosporine — a drug, produced by a fungus (Tolypocladium inflatum), that suppresses the T cells that reject foreign tissue after an organ transplant without suppressing other cells that fight infections and cancer
- 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
- debit policy — a policy for industrial life insurance sold door to door by an agent who collects the premiums.
- depolymerize — to break (a polymer) into constituent monomers or (of a polymer) to decompose in this way
- depressingly — In a depressing manner.
- depressively — In a depressive manner.
- despairingly — given to despair or hopelessness.
- despiteously — in a despiteous or contemptuous manner
- 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.
- dicarpellary — having two carpels
- dipsy-doodle — a quick dipping, sliding motion of the body, as made by ball carriers in football to evade tacklers.
- 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.
- disciplinary — of, for, or constituting discipline; enforcing or administering discipline: disciplinary action.
- dispiritedly — discouraged; dejected; disheartened; gloomy.
- dispiteously — in a manner that lacks pity
- 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
- display type — type larger than body type, used in headings, advertisements, etc.
- displeasedly — in a displeased manner
- disreputably — In a disreputable manner.
- disruptively — In a disruptive manner.
- ditriglyphic — of or pertaining to ditriglyphs
- drapeability — to cover or hang with cloth or other fabric, especially in graceful folds; adorn with drapery.
- dry puddling — puddling in a furnace with a bottom of sand.
- dyslipidemia — (medicine) an inbalance of lipids (especially cholesterol) in the blood; hypercholesterolemia.
- ebullioscopy — (physics) the measurement of the boiling point of liquids.
- egyptologist — Alternative spelling of Egyptologist.
- electrotypic — relating to, or resulting from, electrotypy
- 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.