9-letter words containing a, d, o, p
- expand on — If you expand on or expand upon something, you give more information or details about it when you write or talk about it.
- fadeproof — Resistant to fading.
- fat depot — adipose tissue.
- filopodia — thin projections extending from the edge of migrating cells
- flap door — Also called falling door. a door hinged at the bottom so as to fall downward and outward.
- flipboard — a piece of office equipment consisting of a board to which a flip chart or some other pad can be attached
- floodlamp — Floodlight.
- food wrap — a thin polythene material that clings closely to any surface around which it is placed, used for wrapping food
- gallopade — galop.
- gastropod — any mollusk of the class Gastropoda, comprising the snails, whelks, slugs, etc.
- godparent — a godfather or godmother.
- guardpost — Alternative spelling of guard post.
- handphone — A cordless or cellular phone.
- hard copy — copy, as computer output printed on paper, that can be read without using a special device (opposed to soft copy).
- hard porn — hard-core pornography.
- harpooned — Simple past tense and past participle of harpoon.
- head shop — a shop selling paraphernalia of interest to drug users or associated with the use of drugs.
- headphone — Audio. a headset designed for use with a stereo system.
- heptapody — a verse with seven metrical feet
- hexaploid — having a chromosome number that is six times the haploid number.
- hexapodal — of or relating to the hexapods
- hippodame — a sea horse
- hodograph — the figure described by the extremity of a vector that has a fixed origin and a position vector equal to the velocity of a moving particle.
- hospodars — Plural form of hospodar.
- hypnoidal — characterizing a state that resembles mild hypnosis but that is usually induced by other than hypnotic means.
- hypoderma — hypodermis.
- ideograph — an ideogram.
- ideoscape — (according to w Arjun Appadurai) The global flow of ideologies.
- idiograph — a mark or signature characteristic of a particular person, organization, etc.; trademark. Compare logotype (def 2).
- idiopathy — a disease not preceded or occasioned by any known morbid condition.
- idioplasm — germ plasm.
- impastoed — (painting) Painted with an impasto.
- jeoparded — Simple past tense and past participle of jeopard.
- jeoparder — a person who puts in jeopardy
- lampooned — a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc.
- land-poor — in need of ready money while owning much land.
- landloper — a wanderer, vagrant, or adventurer.
- lapboards — Plural form of lapboard.
- lapideous — (obsolete) Of the nature of stone.
- leporidae — an animal of the family Leporidae, comprising the rabbits and hares.
- loadspace — the area in a motor vehicle where a load can be carried
- lop-eared — having ears that droop or hang down.
- macropods — Plural form of macropod.
- madperson — (gender-neutral) A madman or madwoman.
- madrepore — any true or stony coral of the order Madreporaria, forming reefs or islands in tropical seas.
- mail drop — a receptacle or one of a series of pigeonholelike slots, as in an office, into which incoming mail is placed for pickup.
- maildrops — Plural form of maildrop.
- maplewood — a city in SE Minnesota, near St. Paul.
- mappemond — a map of the world
- megapodes — Plural form of megapode.