12-letter words containing ped
- pedicellaria — one of the minute pincerlike structures common to starfish and sea urchins, used for cleaning and to capture tiny prey.
- pediculation — the act or process of growing a stalk or pedicle
- pediculicide — Also, pediculicidal. destructive to lice.
- pedomorphism — a speeding up of the rate of development, resulting in an adult form that has the appearance of its larval or juvenile ancestor.
- pedunculated — having a peduncle.
- pink-slipped — (of an employee) given notice of redundancy
- quickstepped — Simple past tense and past participle of quickstep.
- slipped disc — displaced spinal disc
- slipped disk — herniated disk.
- sloped roman — a roman (vertical) typeface, usually sans serif, i.e. without the small, decorative, terminal strokes with which some typefaces are designed. The typeface is made to slope (usually to the right), but not generally to the same degree as a true italic typeface
- snake-hipped — having thin, sinuous hips.
- stapedectomy — a microsurgical procedure to relieve deafness by replacing the stapes of the ear with a prosthetic device.
- striped bass — an important American game fish, Morone saxatilis, having blackish stripes along each side.
- striped drum — a North American marine and freshwater sciaenid fish, Equetus pulcher, that utters a drumming sound
- thick-lipped — having thick lips
- tight-lipped — speaking very little; taciturn; close-mouthed.
- torpedo boat — a small, fast, highly maneuverable boat used for torpedoing enemy shipping.
- torpedo tube — a tube through which a self-propelled torpedo is launched, usually by the explosion of a charge of powder.
- unworshipped — not worshipped; not admired or revered
- velocipedean — someone who rides a velocipede
- wedge-shaped — shaped like a wedge