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12-letter words containing p, y, i

  • 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
  • dictyopteran — any insect of the order Dictyoptera, which comprises the cockroaches and mantises
  • diet pyramid — food pyramid (def 2).
  • dinner party — social gathering over evening meal
  • 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.
  • disopyramide — a substance, C 21 H 29 N 3 O, used in its phosphate form in the symptomatic and prophylactic treatment of certain cardiac arrhythmias.
  • dispensatory — a book in which the composition, preparation, and uses of medicinal substances are described; a nonofficial pharmacopoeia.
  • disperse dye — any of the class of slightly water-soluble dyes dispersed in aqueous solution for dyeing synthetic textile fibers.
  • 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.
  • drinks party — a cocktail party
  • dry puddling — puddling in a furnace with a bottom of sand.
  • 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.
  • dyslipidemia — (medicine) an inbalance of lipids (especially cholesterol) in the blood; hypercholesterolemia.
  • dysphemistic — Of, pertaining to, or being a dysphemism.
  • dystopianism — a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
  • ebullioscopy — (physics) the measurement of the boiling point of liquids.
  • egyptian mau — a breed of medium-sized cat with a spotted coat of medium length
  • egyptologist — Alternative spelling of Egyptologist.
  • electrotypic — relating to, or resulting from, electrotypy
  • elliptically — In the form of an ellipse.
  • emancipatory — Of or pertaining to emancipation or to an emancipator.
  • empathically — In an empathic manner.
  • emphatically — In a forceful way.
  • empyreumatic — relating to empyreuma
  • enantiopathy — the treatment of disease by opposites; allopathy
  • enantiotropy — the possibility for stable polymorphs to exist in different states on either side of a transition-point temperature
  • 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.
  • encyclopedic — Comprehensive in terms of information.
  • enhypostasia — personalities existing in union (Jesus Christ and God the Son)
  • enhypostatic — relating to enhypostasia
  • entropically — By means of or in relation to entropy.
  • entry permit — customs
  • ephemerality — (uncountable) The state or condition of being ephemeral; transience.
  • epicycloidal — Of or pertaining to an epicycloid.
  • epidemically — In the manner of an epidemic.
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