12-letter words containing l, d, o, p, a
- productional — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
- profile drag — the sum of the surface friction drag and the form drag for a body moving subsonically through a fluid
- prolog-linda — 1. Prolog extended with Linda-style parallelism. Proc 4th Australian Conf on Artif Intell. 2. Neil MacDonald, U Edinburgh 1989. Another Prolog extended with Linda, implemented on a Computing Surface.
- prosodically — in a prosodic manner
- providential — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
- pseudoallele — a false allele
- pseudocereal — any of several plants, as buckwheat and quinoa, that produce fruits and seeds used as flour but are not of the grass family.
- pseudopodial — a temporary protrusion of the protoplasm, as of certain protozoans, usually serving as an organ of locomotion or prehension.
- pseudoscalar — a scalar quantity that changes sign when the sense of the orientation of the coordinate system is changed.
- pyramidology — a belief system based on the supposed occult significance of the Egyptian pyramids
- pyritohedral — of or relating to a pyritohedron
- railroad pen — a ruling pen for drawing two parallel lines.
- rapeseed oil — a brownish-yellow oil obtained by expression from rapeseed and used chiefly as a lubricant, an illuminant, and in the manufacture of rubber substitutes.
- ripe old age — advanced age
- royal pardon — release from punishment for an offence, granted by a monarch
- saddle point — a point at which a function of two variables has partial derivatives equal to zero but at which the function has neither a maximum nor a minimum value.
- shoulder pad — clothing: insert in shoulder
- sleep around — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
- 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
- snow leopard — a long-haired, leopardlike feline, Panthera (Uncia) uncia, of mountain ranges of central Asia, having a relatively small head and a thick, creamy-gray coat with rosette spots: an endangered species.
- span loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
- spiral-bound — having a spiral binding.
- sporadically — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- spotted tail — (Sinte-galeshka) 1833?–81, Brulé Sioux leader.
- sulphadoxine — an antibiotic drug of the sulphonamide group, commonly used in combination with pyrimethamine to treat malaria, and in combination with various drugs to treat certain infections
- sulphonamide — any of a class of organic compounds that are amides of sulphonic acids containing the group –SO2NH2 or a group derived from this. An important class of sulphonamides are the sulfa drugs
- superordinal — relating to the superorder
- table tripod — a low mount or stand for a camera.
- top and tail — method of washing a baby
- tradespeople — people engaged in trade, esp shopkeepers
- triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
- trial period — time during which sth can be evaluated
- tropicalised — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- tropicalized — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- trypanocidal — (of a drug, agent, activity, etc) effective in killing trypanosomes
- undiplomatic — of, relating to, or engaged in diplomacy: diplomatic officials.
- unpardonable — kind indulgence, as in forgiveness of an offense or discourtesy or in tolerance of a distraction or inconvenience: I beg your pardon, but which way is Spruce Street?
- unpardonably — in a manner that is not excusable; disgracefully
- unpavilioned — not provided with a pavilion
- unprocedural — not procedural, not following proper procedures
- unproclaimed — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
- velocipedean — someone who rides a velocipede
- video player — VCR: videotape recorder
- wild apricot — apricot (def 4).
- woolly aphid — any plant louse of the family Aphididae, characterized by a waxy secretion that appears like a jumbled mass of fine, curly, white cottony or woolly threads, as Eriosoma lanigerum (woolly apple aphid or American blight) and Prociphilus tessellatus (woolly alder aphid)
- worlds apart — in different environments