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12-letter words containing u, p, i

  • darwin tulip — a class of tulips having a tall stem and broad, bright-colored flowers with a flat, rectangular base.
  • de profundis — out of the depths of misery or dejection
  • deduplicated — Simple past tense and past participle of deduplicate.
  • depopulating — Present participle of depopulate.
  • depopulation — to remove or reduce the population of, as by destruction or expulsion.
  • depopulative — That depopulates.
  • depressurise — to remove the air pressure from (a pressurized compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft).
  • depressurize — to reduce the pressure of a gas inside (a container or enclosed space), as in an aircraft cabin
  • deputization — the act of making someone a deputy
  • despiteously — in a despiteous or contemptuous manner
  • desulphurize — to free or become free from sulphur
  • deuteranopia — a form of colour blindness in which there is a tendency to confuse blues and greens, and greens and reds, and in which sensitivity to green is reduced
  • diaphanously — In a diaphanous manner or to a diaphanous extent.
  • dinosaur pen — A traditional mainframe computer room complete with raised flooring, special power, its own ultra-heavy-duty air conditioning, and a side order of Halon fire extinguishers. See boa.
  • diphosphorus — (chemistry, in combination) two atoms of phosphorus in a compound.
  • diplodocuses — Plural form of diplodocus.
  • dipsacaceous — belonging to the Dipsacaceae, the teasel family of plants.
  • direct input — a device, such as a keyboard, used to insert data directly into a computerized system
  • discomposure — the state of being discomposed; disorder; agitation; perturbation.
  • disculpating — Present participle of disculpate.
  • dispauperize — to free (a person) from the state of being a pauper
  • dispiteously — in a manner that lacks pity
  • disputations — Plural form of disputation.
  • disputatious — fond of or given to disputation; argumentative; contentious: disputatious litigants.
  • disreputable — not reputable; having a bad reputation: a disreputable barroom.
  • disreputably — In a disreputable manner.
  • disruptively — In a disruptive manner.
  • dolphinarium — An aquarium in which dolphins are kept and trained for public entertainment.
  • double piece — a piece of plate armor for reinforcing or replacing a piece ordinarily used in a suit.
  • drop biscuit — a biscuit made by dropping baking powder biscuit dough from a spoon onto a pan for baking.
  • drop curtain — a curtain that is lowered into position from the flies.
  • drum printer — a line printer that uses a rotating drum with raised characters, against which the paper is pressed.
  • dry puddling — puddling in a furnace with a bottom of sand.
  • dryopithecus — an extinct genus of generalized hominoids that lived in Europe and Africa during the Miocene Epoch and whose members are characterized by small molars and incisors.
  • duplex chain — a roller chain having two sets of rollers linked together, used for heavy-duty applications
  • duplicatable — capable of being duplicated.
  • duplications — Plural form of duplication.
  • east prussia — a former province in NE Germany: an enclave separated from Germany by the Polish Corridor; now divided between Poland and the Russian Federation. 14,283 sq. mi. (36,993 sq. km). Capital: Königsberg.
  • ebullioscopy — (physics) the measurement of the boiling point of liquids.
  • egyptian mau — a breed of medium-sized cat with a spotted coat of medium length
  • empyreumatic — relating to empyreuma
  • epicureanism — An ancient school of philosophy founded in Athens by Epicurus. The school rejected determinism and advocated hedonism (pleasure as the highest good), but of a restrained kind: mental pleasure was regarded more highly than physical, and the ultimate pleasure was held to be freedom from anxiety and mental pain, esp. that arising from needless fear of death and of the gods.
  • epicuticular — Relating to the epicuticle.
  • epithalamium — A song or poem celebrating a marriage.
  • equimultiple — one of a series of amounts or numbers that each consist of another amount or number an equal number of times
  • equiparation — the act of regarding as the same; the act of comparing
  • equipollence — The condition of being equipollent; equality of power, force, signification, or application.
  • equiprobable — (of two or more things ) equally likely to occur; having equal probability.
  • euphonically — In a euphonic manner.
  • euphoniously — In a euphonious manner.
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