12-letter words containing p, t, e, r, o, d
- disportments — to divert or amuse (oneself).
- dispropriate — to deprive of ownership
- distemperoid — resembling distemper.
- doorstepping — talking to someone at the door of their home, for political canvassing or to gather information
- draftsperson — a person employed in making mechanical drawings, especially in an architectural or engineering firm.
- drapetomania — (dated) an overwhelming urge to run away (from home, a bad situation, responsibility, etc.).
- dropout rate — the percentage of students failing to complete a particular school or college course
- dropped seat — a seat of a chair or the like, having a front dished so as to be lower than the sides or back.
- dryopithecus — an extinct genus of generalized hominoids that lived in Europe and Africa during the Miocene Epoch and whose members are characterized by small molars and incisors.
- eden project — an environmental complex containing the world's largest greenhouse, built in a disused clay pit near St Austell, Cornwall, to study plant populations in a variety of environments
- electrotyped — Simple past tense and past participle of electrotype.
- endoparasite — A parasite, such as a tapeworm, that lives inside its host.
- expectorated — Simple past tense and past participle of expectorate.
- export drive — a united effort to increase a country's exports
- export trade — the area of business or industry concerned with the export of goods or services
- expropriated — Simple past tense and past participle of expropriate.
- extemporised — Simple past tense and past participle of extemporise.
- extemporized — Simple past tense and past participle of extemporize.
- extrapolated — Simple past tense and past participle of extrapolate.
- field sports — sports carried on in the open countryside, such as hunting, shooting, or fishing
- fortified pa — a Māori hilltop dwelling with trenches and palisades for defensive occupation
- foundry type — type cast in individual characters for setting by hand.
- fried potato — Fried potatoes are pieces of potato cooked in oil or fat.
- gas-operated — (of a firearm) using some of the exhaust gases to operate the action.
- giant powder — dynamite composed of nitroglycerin and kieselguhr.
- gold therapy — administration of gold salts as a treatment for disease, especially rheumatoid arthritis.
- ground plate — Electricity. a metal plate for making a ground connection to the earth.
- helicoptered — Simple past tense and past participle of helicopter.
- heptahedrons — Plural form of heptahedron.
- heteroduplex — having polynucleotide strands derived from two different sources
- heteroploidy — (genetics) The state of being heteroploid.
- hot-tempered — easily angered; short-tempered.
- hydnocarpate — a salt or ester of hydnocarpic acid.
- hydrophilite — a white mineral consisting of potassium and calcium
- hydrotherapy — the branch of therapeutics that deals with the curative use of water.
- hyperthyroid — of, relating to, or having hyperthyroidism.
- imperforated — Also, imperforated. not perforate; having no perforation.
- impersonated — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
- import trade — goods, services and products brought into a country and which were bought from another country
- incorporated — legally incorporated, as a company.
- intercropped — Simple past tense and past participle of intercrop.
- interpolated — to introduce (something additional or extraneous) between other things or parts; interject; interpose; intercalate.
- introspected — Simple past tense and past participle of introspect.
- leopard moth — a moth, Zeuzera pyrina, having white wings spotted with black and larvae that bore into the wood of various trees and shrubs.
- lepidopteran — lepidopterous.
- lepidopteron — any lepidopterous insect.
- lithographed — Simple past tense and past participle of lithograph.
- low-spirited — depressed; dejected: He is feeling rather low-spirited today.
- lower depths — a play (1902) by Maxim Gorki.
- madreporites — Plural form of madreporite.