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12-letter words containing u, p, d, r, i

  • outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
  • overequipped — having too much equipment
  • paradoxurine — relating to the palm civet
  • perfidiously — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
  • periodontium — the bone, connective tissue, and gum surrounding and supporting a tooth.
  • pfund series — a series of lines in the infrared spectrum of hydrogen.
  • picture card — face card
  • picture desk — the department at a magazine or newspaper publisher, that deals with photographs for the paper or magazine
  • picture disc — a phonograph record with a picture on the vinyl.
  • picture mold — a molding near a ceiling from which pictures can be suspended.
  • pig industry — the people and activities involved in making pork products
  • powerbuilder — (tool, database)   A graphical user interface development tool from Powersoft for developing client-server database applications. It runs under MS-DOS(?) and Microsoft Windows. There are also versions for Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Macintosh, and Unix. Applications can be built by creating windows, controls (such as listboxes and buttons), and menus within the PowerBuilder development environment. The language used to program PowerBuilder, PowerScript, is loosely based on BASIC. PowerBuilder supports programming on many database backends including Sybase and Oracle. It also has added support for ODBC database drivers. PowerBuilder also comes with a built-in database backend (WATCOM SQL 32-bit relational database).
  • praseodymium — a rare-earth, metallic, trivalent element, named from its green salts. Symbol: Pr; atomic weight: 140.91; atomic number: 59; specific gravity: 6.77 at 20°C.
  • pre-discount — to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.): All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at two percent.
  • prediscourse — communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.
  • preinduction — occurring before an induction
  • premium bond — In Britain, premium bonds are numbered tickets that are sold by the government. Each month, a computer selects several numbers, and the people whose tickets have those numbers win money.
  • premium deal — a commercial transaction in which a special incentive or bonus is offered
  • prepublished — to publish in advance of a scheduled date.
  • pridefulness — a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
  • prison guard — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
  • prodigiously — extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.: a prodigious research grant.
  • proditorious — traitorous
  • product line — all of the products carried by a manufacturer, wholesaler, or retailer.
  • productional — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
  • productively — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
  • productivity — the quality, state, or fact of being able to generate, create, enhance, or bring forth goods and services: The productivity of the group's effort surprised everyone.
  • promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
  • propaedeutic — pertaining to or of the nature of preliminary instruction.
  • protoduction — (jargon)   A prototype that ends up in a production environment.
  • prudentially — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or resulting from prudence.
  • prussic acid — weakly acidic extremely poisonous aqueous solution of hydrogen cyanide
  • pseudorabies — a highly contagious, usually fatal disease of cattle, sheep, and other animals, caused by the herpesvirus Herpes suis, and characterized by severe pruritus and progressive central nervous system involvement sometimes including an aggressive excitement phase.
  • pudding rice — a type of short-grained rice that is suitable for making into a rice pudding
  • punditocracy — influential media pundits collectively.
  • purblindness — the state of being purblind
  • purple medic — a plant, Medicago sativa, of the legume family, usually having bluish-purple flowers, originating in the Near East and widely cultivated as a forage crop.
  • put in order — arrange correctly
  • pyruvic acid — a water-soluble liquid, C 3 H 4 O 3 , important in many metabolic and fermentative processes, having an odor resembling that of acetic acid, prepared by the dehydration of tartaric acid: used chiefly in biochemical research.
  • quadraphonic — of, noting, or pertaining to the recording and reproduction of sound over four separate transmission or direct reproduction channels instead of the customary two of the stereo system: a quadraphonic recording.
  • quadraplegic — quadriplegic.
  • quadriphonic — quadraphonic.
  • quadriplegia — paralysis of all four limbs or of the entire body below the neck.
  • quadriplegic — a person with quadriplegia.
  • quadrophonic — Alternative spelling of quadraphonic.
  • quid pro quo — something that is given or taken in return for something else.
  • reproducible — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • reproduction — the act or process of reproducing.
  • reproductive — serving to reproduce.
  • rice pudding — dessert made from rice and milk
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