12-letter words containing r, d, o, p
- media person — a person who works in the mass media
- mediatorship — the position of a mediator
- microchipped — Simple past tense and past participle of microchip.
- microprinted — printed in microprint
- milk product — Milk products are foods made from milk, for example butter, cheese, and yoghurt.
- mimeographed — Simple past tense and past participle of mimeograph.
- mond process — a process for obtaining nickel by heating the ore in carbon monoxide to produce nickel carbonyl vapour, which is then decomposed at a higher temperature to yield the metal
- money spider — any of certain small shiny brownish spiders of the family Linyphiidae
- monodisperse — (of a colloid) Having particles of (approximately) the same size.
- mousetrapped — Simple past tense and past participle of mousetrap.
- multiproduct — a thing produced by labor: products of farm and factory; the product of his thought.
- multipronged — having or composed of several prongs: a multipronged electric plug.
- name-dropper — a person who indulges in name-dropping.
- neuropeptide — any of various short-chain peptides, as endorphins, that function as neuromodulators in the nervous system and as hormones in the endocrine system.
- newspaperdom — The realm or sphere of newspaper publishing or journalism.
- nondepressed — (esp of an emotional state) not depressed
- nondescripts — Plural form of nondescript.
- nonproducing — that does not produce
- nonresponder — something or someone that does not respond
- nonsponsored — Not sponsored.
- nordkyn cape — Cape, a cape in N Norway, E of North Cape: northernmost point of the European mainland.
- norephedrine — The drug phenylpropanolamine.
- normed space — any vector space on which a norm is defined.
- oakland park — a town in S Florida.
- obcompressed — compressed or flattened in a way opposite to the usual, as back to front instead of side to side.
- odontography — a treatise regarding the teeth
- odontophoran — a member of the family Odontophora
- oil producer — a country with reserves of oil
- oilseed rape — Oilseed rape is a plant with yellow flowers which is grown as a crop. Its seeds are crushed to make cooking oil.
- old prussian — a Baltic language extinct since the 17th century. Abbreviation: OPruss.
- olla podrida — a spicy Spanish stew of sausage and other meat, chickpeas, and often tomatoes and other vegetables.
- ombudsperson — ombudsman (def 2).
- on shipboard — on board a ship
- open verdict — law: coroner's jury finding
- open-hearted — unreserved, candid, or frank: open-hearted advice.
- opera window — a narrow, fixed window on each side of the rear passenger compartment of an automobile.
- ordered pair — Mathematics. two quantities written in such a way as to indicate that one quantity precedes or is to be considered before the other, as (3, 4) indicates the Cartesian coordinates of a point in the plane.
- orthopaedics — (used with a singular verb) the medical specialty concerned with correction of deformities or functional impairments of the skeletal system, especially the extremities and the spine, and associated structures, as muscles and ligaments.
- orthopaedist — Alternative spelling of orthopedist.
- orthopedical — (American spelling) Alternative form of orthopaedical.
- orthopteroid — (zoology) Any of the insects historically included in the order Orthoptera, including the cockroaches, earwigs, praying mantises, etc.
- outperformed — Simple past tense and past participle of outperform.
- outreproduce — to reproduce more prolifically than
- outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
- overdevelops — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overdevelop.
- overequipped — having too much equipment
- overflow pdl — (jargon) The place where you put things when your pdl is full. If you don't have one and too many things get pushed, you forget something. The overflow pdl for a person's memory might be a memo pad. This usage inspired the following doggerel:
- overlordship — a person who is lord over another or over other lords: to obey the will of one's sovereign and overlord.
- overpedalled — relating to overpedalling
- overpersuade — to persuade (a person) against his or her inclination or intention: By threats and taunts they had overpersuaded him to steal the car.