12-letter words containing p, o, n, d, l, a
- lepidomelane — (mineralogy) A black iron-potash mica, usually found in granitic rocks in small six-sided tables, or as an aggregation of minute opaque scales.
- lepidopteran — lepidopterous.
- loading ramp — a ramp that is used for loading a ship
- london plane — a tall, hardy, widely spreading plane tree, Platanus acerifolia, of North America, having clusters of round, bristly fruit.
- lymphadenoma — an enlarged lymph node.
- magnoliopsid — (botany) a member of the class Magnoliopsida. Circumscription of this class will vary with the taxonomic system being used.
- monadelphous — (of stamens) united into one bundle or set by their filaments.
- monodelphian — any placental mammal that is a member of the group Monodelphia
- nontyphoidal — of, relating to, or resembling typhoid.
- nucleocapsid — the nucleic acid core and surrounding capsid of a virus; the basic viral structure.
- oak-panelled — having panels that are made of oak
- oakland park — a town in S Florida.
- old prussian — a Baltic language extinct since the 17th century. Abbreviation: OPruss.
- paleo-indian — of, relating to, or characteristic of a New World cultural stage, c22,000–6000 b.c., distinguished by fluted-point tools and cooperative hunting methods.
- palindromist — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
- panel doctor — a doctor within a given area available for consultation by patients insured under the National Health Insurance Scheme
- parlor grand — a grand piano smaller than a concert grand but larger than a baby grand.
- pediculation — the act or process of growing a stalk or pedicle
- personalised — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
- personalized — customized
- piltdown man — a hypothetical early modern human, assigned to the genus Eoanthropus, whose existence was inferred from skull fragments that were allegedly found at Piltdown, England, in 1912 but were exposed as fraudulent through chemical analysis in 1953.
- poison gland — a gland in some fish and amphibians that secretes venomous material
- poland china — one of an American breed of black hogs having white markings.
- polar wander — the movement of the earth's magnetic poles with respect to the geographic poles
- pole dancing — Pole dancing is a type of entertainment in a bar or club in which a woman who is wearing very few clothes dances around a pole in a sexy way.
- postdeadline — the time by which something must be finished or submitted; the latest time for finishing something: a five o'clock deadline.
- postdiluvian — existing or occurring after the Biblical Flood.
- postprandial — after a meal, especially after dinner: postprandial oratory; a postprandial brandy.
- prodigal son — a figure in a parable of Jesus (Luke 15:11–32); a wayward son who squanders his inheritance but returns home to find that his father forgives him.
- productional — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
- prolog-linda — 1. Prolog extended with Linda-style parallelism. Proc 4th Australian Conf on Artif Intell. 2. Neil MacDonald, U Edinburgh 1989. Another Prolog extended with Linda, implemented on a Computing Surface.
- providential — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
- railroad pen — a ruling pen for drawing two parallel lines.
- royal pardon — release from punishment for an offence, granted by a monarch
- saddle point — a point at which a function of two variables has partial derivatives equal to zero but at which the function has neither a maximum nor a minimum value.
- sleep around — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
- sloped roman — a roman (vertical) typeface, usually sans serif, i.e. without the small, decorative, terminal strokes with which some typefaces are designed. The typeface is made to slope (usually to the right), but not generally to the same degree as a true italic typeface
- snow leopard — a long-haired, leopardlike feline, Panthera (Uncia) uncia, of mountain ranges of central Asia, having a relatively small head and a thick, creamy-gray coat with rosette spots: an endangered species.
- span loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
- spiral-bound — having a spiral binding.
- sulphadoxine — an antibiotic drug of the sulphonamide group, commonly used in combination with pyrimethamine to treat malaria, and in combination with various drugs to treat certain infections
- sulphonamide — any of a class of organic compounds that are amides of sulphonic acids containing the group –SO2NH2 or a group derived from this. An important class of sulphonamides are the sulfa drugs
- superordinal — relating to the superorder
- top and tail — method of washing a baby
- trypanocidal — (of a drug, agent, activity, etc) effective in killing trypanosomes
- undiplomatic — of, relating to, or engaged in diplomacy: diplomatic officials.
- unpardonable — kind indulgence, as in forgiveness of an offense or discourtesy or in tolerance of a distraction or inconvenience: I beg your pardon, but which way is Spruce Street?
- unpardonably — in a manner that is not excusable; disgracefully
- unpavilioned — not provided with a pavilion
- unprocedural — not procedural, not following proper procedures