12-letter words containing s, p, e, d
- imprest fund — a fund of petty cash.
- impudentness — Quality of being impudent.
- in deep shit — excrement; feces.
- in spadefuls — in an extreme or emphatic way
- in the dumps — a depressed state of mind (usually preceded by in the): to be in the dumps over money problems.
- incapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of incapsulate.
- independents — Plural form of independent.
- indiscipline — lack of discipline or control: a campus problem of student indiscipline.
- indisposable — Not disposable.
- indisputable — not disputable or deniable; uncontestable. indisputable evidence.
- interspersed — to scatter here and there or place at intervals among other things: to intersperse flowers among shrubs.
- interspliced — Simple past tense and past participle of intersplice.
- intrepidness — resolutely fearless; dauntless: an intrepid explorer.
- introspected — Simple past tense and past participle of introspect.
- ipsedixitism — An unfounded, false and dogmatic assertion.
- isopropoxide — (chemistry) The univalent anion derived from isopropanol by removal of the hydroxy hydrogen atom; and salt containing this anion.
- jeopardising — Present participle of jeopardise.
- jeopardously — with risk or peril
- jeu d'esprit — a witticism.
- jurisprudent — versed in jurisprudence.
- kaleidoscope — an optical instrument in which bits of glass, held loosely at the end of a rotating tube, are shown in continually changing symmetrical forms by reflection in two or more mirrors set at angles to each other.
- kindred-ship — a person's relatives collectively; kinfolk; kin.
- lady-slipper — cypripedium
- land plaster — finely ground gypsum, used chiefly as a fertilizer.
- lap dissolve — dissolve (def 17).
- lapidescence — a lapidescent quality or condition
- ledger strip — a piece attached to the face of a beam at the bottom as a support for the ends of joists.
- leopard seal — a yellowish-gray, spotted seal, Hydrurga leptonyx, of the Antarctic.
- leopardesses — Plural form of leopardess.
- lepidosirens — Plural form of lepidosiren.
- lesser panda — panda (def 2).
- leukopedesis — an outward flow of white blood cells through a blood-vessel wall.
- ligniperdous — (of insects) wood-destroying
- limp-wristed — Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. effeminate.
- lithopedions — Plural form of lithopedion.
- live spindle — a rounded rod, usually of wood, tapering toward each end, used in hand-spinning to twist into thread the fibers drawn from the mass on the distaff, and on which the thread is wound as it is spun.
- loose-lipped — tending toward indiscriminate and uninhibited talk.
- lopsidedness — heavier, larger, or more developed on one side than on the other; unevenly balanced; unsymmetrical.
- loudspeakers — Plural form of loudspeaker, especially a pair for a left and right channel.
- low-spirited — depressed; dejected: He is feeling rather low-spirited today.
- lower depths — a play (1902) by Maxim Gorki.
- madreporites — Plural form of madreporite.
- manspreading — the practice by a male passenger on public transport of sitting with his legs wide apart, so denying space to passengers beside him
- mass-produce — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- 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.
- mediatorship — the position of a mediator
- medium strip — median strip.
- mesoappendix — the mesentery of the vermiform appendix.