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12-letter words containing r, d, o, p

  • dolphinarium — An aquarium in which dolphins are kept and trained for public entertainment.
  • domino paper — a marbleized or figured decorative paper, used for wallpaper, end papers, etc., printed from wood blocks and colored by hand.
  • door scraper — a small horizontal bar fixed to the ground near a door where visitors can scrape mud from their shoes before entering
  • doorstepping — talking to someone at the door of their home, for political canvassing or to gather information
  • dopaminergic — activated by or sensitive to dopamine.
  • dope peddler — a seller of illegal drugs
  • doppelganger — a ghostly double or counterpart of a living person.
  • doppleganger — Misspelling of doppelganger.
  • dosing strip — (in New Zealand) an area set aside for treating dogs suspected of having hydatid disease
  • double sharp — a symbol (× or ) that raises by two semitones the pitch of the following note.
  • dow compiler — An early system on the Datatron 200 series.
  • draftsperson — a person employed in making mechanical drawings, especially in an architectural or engineering firm.
  • drapery shop — a shop selling fabrics and sewing materials
  • drapetomania — (dated) an overwhelming urge to run away (from home, a bad situation, responsibility, etc.).
  • draughtproof — That prevents the access of draughts.
  • drop a brick — a block of clay hardened by drying in the sun or burning in a kiln, and used for building, paving, etc.: traditionally, in the U.S., a rectangle 2.25 × 3.75 × 8 inches (5.7 × 9.5 × 20.3 cm), red, brown, or yellow in color.
  • drop biscuit — a biscuit made by dropping baking powder biscuit dough from a spoon onto a pan for baking.
  • drop curtain — a curtain that is lowered into position from the flies.
  • drop forging — a product made by drop-forging
  • drop initial — inset initial.
  • drop shipper — a wholesaler or distributor who conducts business in drop shipments.
  • 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.
  • dropped sole — a condition in which the foot of a horse is convex instead of concave
  • 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.
  • dual-purpose — serving two functions.
  • eavesdropped — Simple past tense and past participle of eavesdrop.
  • eavesdropper — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
  • edaphosaurus — Any of several dinosaurs of the family Edaphosauridae, from the Carboniferous and Permian periods, that had a distinctive dorsal sail or crest.
  • 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
  • eggdrop soup — a soup made by stirring beaten eggs into a simmering broth.
  • electrotyped — Simple past tense and past participle of electrotype.
  • endomorphism — changes in a cooling body of igneous rock brought about by assimilation of fragments of, or chemical reaction with, the surrounding country rock
  • endoparasite — A parasite, such as a tapeworm, that lives inside its host.
  • endoperoxide — one of the substances formed in the biosynthesis of prostaglandins
  • 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.
  • farm produce — agricultural products regarded collectively
  • fernando póo — Bioko
  • field sports — sports carried on in the open countryside, such as hunting, shooting, or fishing
  • flameproofed — Simple past tense and past participle of flameproof.
  • flash powder — powder that could be ignited to provide a bright light to take a photograph
  • floppy drive — disk drive
  • fluoroscoped — Simple past tense and past participle of fluoroscope.
  • food pyramid — successive levels of predation in a food chain represented schematically as a pyramid because upper levels normally consist of decreasing numbers of larger predators.
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