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12-letter words containing l, d, o, p

  • poodle-faker — a young man or newly commissioned officer who makes a point of socializing with women; ladies' man
  • porthole die — a die having several openings for the extrusion of separate parts of an object later formed by the welding or fusing together of these parts.
  • postal order — money order.
  • postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
  • postdeadline — the time by which something must be finished or submitted; the latest time for finishing something: a five o'clock deadline.
  • postdelivery — of, relating to, or occurring after a delivery
  • postdiluvial — existing or occurring after the biblical Flood
  • postdiluvian — existing or occurring after the Biblical Flood.
  • postdoctoral — of or relating to study or professional work undertaken after the receipt of a doctorate: postdoctoral courses.
  • poster child — a child appearing on a poster for a charitable organization.
  • postmedieval — occurring or existing after the Middle Ages, of or related to the period after the Middle Ages
  • postprandial — after a meal, especially after dinner: postprandial oratory; a postprandial brandy.
  • pot marigold — calendula (def 1).
  • potato salad — potato chunks in mayonnaise
  • powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
  • 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).
  • pre-conclude — to bring to an end; finish; terminate: to conclude a speech with a quotation from the Bible.
  • pre-enrolled — to write the name of (a person) in a roll or register; place upon a list; register: It took two days to enroll the new students.
  • pre-modelled — a standard or example for imitation or comparison.
  • predilection — a tendency to think favorably of something in particular; partiality; preference: a predilection for Bach.
  • prednisolone — a synthetic glucocorticoid, C 2 1 H 2 8 O 5 , used in various forms to treat inflammation and allergies and in the treatment of acute leukemia, Hodgkin's disease, and lymphomas.
  • primordially — constituting a beginning; giving origin to something derived or developed; original; elementary: primordial forms of life.
  • procathedral — a church used temporarily as a cathedral.
  • procedurally — of or relating to a procedure or procedures, especially of a court of law, legislative body, or law enforcement agency.
  • prodigal son — a figure in a parable of Jesus (Luke 15:11–32); a wayward son who squanders his inheritance but returns home to find that his father forgives him.
  • prodigiously — extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.: a prodigious research grant.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • pronouncedly — strongly marked: a pronounced fishy taste.
  • 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.
  • pseudocoelom — the body cavity of certain invertebrate metazoan animals between the body wall and the intestine, which is not lined with a mesodermal epithelium.
  • 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.
  • public goods — services such as national defence, law enforcement, and road building, that are for the benefit of, and available to, all members of the public
  • 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.
  • redeployment — to transfer (a unit, a person, supplies, etc.) from one theater of operations to another.
  • reproducible — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • 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.
  • scolopendrid — any myriapod of the order Scolopendrida, including many large, poisonous centipedes.
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