12-letter words containing s, n, a, p, e, d
- hepadnavirus — Any member of the virus family Hepadnaviridae, capable of causing liver infections in humans and animals.
- heptahedrons — Plural form of heptahedron.
- iceland spar — a transparent variety of calcite that is double-refracting and is used as a polarizer.
- impersonated — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
- in spadefuls — in an extreme or emphatic way
- incapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of incapsulate.
- indisposable — Not disposable.
- indisputable — not disputable or deniable; uncontestable. indisputable evidence.
- jeopardising — Present participle of jeopardise.
- land plaster — finely ground gypsum, used chiefly as a fertilizer.
- lapidescence — a lapidescent quality or condition
- lesser panda — panda (def 2).
- manspreading — the practice by a male passenger on public transport of sitting with his legs wide apart, so denying space to passengers beside him
- meanspirited — petty; small-minded; ungenerous: a meanspirited man, unwilling to forgive.
- media person — a person who works in the mass media
- median strip — a paved, planted, or landscaped strip in the center of a highway that separates lanes of traffic going in opposite directions.
- mesoappendix — the mesentery of the vermiform appendix.
- misapprehend — to misunderstand.
- mispleadings — Plural form of mispleading.
- monadelphous — (of stamens) united into one bundle or set by their filaments.
- needle-sharp — very sharp
- newspaperdom — The realm or sphere of newspaper publishing or journalism.
- normed space — any vector space on which a norm is defined.
- nucleocapsid — the nucleic acid core and surrounding capsid of a virus; the basic viral structure.
- onion-shaped — bulb-shaped; shaped like an onion
- outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
- paedodontics — the branch of dentistry that focuses on the care of children's teeth
- paedogenesis — sexual reproduction in an animal that retains its larval features
- pale-skinned — having pale skin
- pamperedness — the state of being pampered
- pandanaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Pandanaceae, an Old World tropical family of monocotyledonous plants including the screw pines
- parascending — parasailing
- parasphenoid — a bone next to the sphenoid bone in the skull of some animals
- pasture land — grassland used for grazing
- personalised — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
- personalized — customized
- pig islander — a New Zealander
- plaid screen — [XEROX PARC] A "special effect" that occurs when certain kinds of memory smashes overwrite the control blocks or image memory of a bit-mapped display. The term "salt and pepper" may refer to a different pattern of similar origin. Though the term as coined at PARC refers to the result of an error, some of the X demos induce plaid-screen effects deliberately as a display hack.
- point spread — a betting device, established by oddsmakers and used to attract bettors for uneven competitions, indicating the estimated number of points by which a stronger team can be expected to defeat a weaker team, the point spread being added to the weaker team's actual points in the game and this new figure then compared to the stronger team's points to determine winning bets.
- point-spread — a betting device, established by oddsmakers and used to attract bettors for uneven competitions, indicating the estimated number of points by which a stronger team can be expected to defeat a weaker team, the point spread being added to the weaker team's actual points in the game and this new figure then compared to the stronger team's points to determine winning bets.
- postaccident — occurring after an accident
- postdeadline — the time by which something must be finished or submitted; the latest time for finishing something: a five o'clock deadline.
- postmeridian — of or relating to the afternoon.
- pre-assigned — Law. to transfer: to assign a contract.
- preadmission — (in a reciprocating engine) admission of steam or the like to the head of the cylinder near the end of the stroke, as to cushion the force of the stroke or to allow full pressure at the beginning of the return stroke.
- predesignate — to designate beforehand.
- predestinate — Theology. to foreordain by divine decree or purpose.
- prediagnosis — Medicine/Medical. the process of determining by examination the nature and circumstances of a diseased condition. the decision reached from such an examination. Abbreviation: Dx.
- preparedness — the state of being prepared; readiness.
- presidential — of or relating to a president or presidency.