12-letter words containing s, n, o, p, e, d
- introspected — Simple past tense and past participle of introspect.
- jeopardising — Present participle of jeopardise.
- lepidosirens — Plural form of lepidosiren.
- ligniperdous — (of insects) wood-destroying
- lithopedions — Plural form of lithopedion.
- lopsidedness — heavier, larger, or more developed on one side than on the other; unevenly balanced; unsymmetrical.
- media person — a person who works in the mass media
- mesoappendix — the mesentery of the vermiform appendix.
- modus ponens — the principle that whenever a conditional statement and its antecedent are given to be true its consequent may be validly inferred, as in if it's Tuesday this must be Belgium and it's Tuesday so this must be Belgium
- monadelphous — (of stamens) united into one bundle or set by their filaments.
- 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.
- needlepoints — Plural form of needlepoint.
- newspaperdom — The realm or sphere of newspaper publishing or journalism.
- nondepressed — (esp of an emotional state) not depressed
- nondescripts — Plural form of nondescript.
- nonresponder — something or someone that does not respond
- nonsponsored — Not sponsored.
- 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.
- ombudsperson — ombudsman (def 2).
- onion-shaped — bulb-shaped; shaped like an onion
- open desktop — (operating system, product) A Motif-based graphical interface from the Santa Cruz Operation (SCO), built over their Unix environment, part of the ACE initiative. Also known as "Open DeathTrap".
- outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
- overspending — the act or an instance of spending in excess of one's desires or what one can afford or is allocated
- 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
- pandanaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Pandanaceae, an Old World tropical family of monocotyledonous plants including the screw pines
- parasphenoid — a bone next to the sphenoid bone in the skull of some animals
- pension fund — a fund created and maintained, as by a corporation, to provide benefits under a pension plan.
- periodontics — the branch of dentistry dealing with the study and treatment of diseases of the periodontium.
- periodontist — a specialist in periodontics.
- permissioned — authorization granted to do something; formal consent: to ask permission to leave the room.
- personalised — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
- personalized — customized
- 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.
- pollutedness — the state of being polluted
- polysyndeton — the use of a number of conjunctions in close succession.
- possessioned — having possessions
- 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.
- potting shed — A potting shed is a small building in a garden, in which you can keep things such as seeds or garden tools.
- pre-discount — to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.): All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at two percent.
- 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.
- 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.
- predisposing — to give an inclination or tendency to beforehand; make susceptible: Genetic factors may predispose human beings to certain metabolic diseases.
- prednisolone — a synthetic glucocorticoid, C 2 1 H 2 8 O 5 , used in various forms to treat inflammation and allergies and in the treatment of acute leukemia, Hodgkin's disease, and lymphomas.