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10-letter words containing a, d, p, i, s

  • plastidial — relating to a plastid
  • plastidule — a small particle of protoplasm
  • podcasting — a digital audio or video file or recording, usually part of a themed series, that can be downloaded from a website to a media player or computer: Download or subscribe to daily, one-hour podcasts of our radio show.
  • podiatrist — a person qualified to diagnose and treat foot disorders.
  • polydipsia — excessive thirst.
  • pond snail — a general term for the freshwater snails: often specifically for the great pond snail (Limnaea stagnalis) and others of that genus. L. truncatula is a host of the liver fluke
  • pre-advise — to give counsel to; offer an opinion or suggestion as worth following: I advise you to be cautious.
  • predacious — predatory; rapacious.
  • prismatoid — a polyhedron having its vertices lying on two parallel planes.
  • proplastid — a plant cell organelle that a plastid develops from
  • psalmodize — to sing psalms
  • pseudimago — (of insects) a form similar to the adult, but which is not a true adult
  • pseudoacid — a compound that is not an acid but which undergoes certain typical reactions of an acid
  • push aside — shove to one side
  • push media — (messaging)   A model of media distribution where items of content are sent to the user (viewer, listener, etc.) in a sequence, and at a rate, determined by a server to which the user has connected. This contrasts with pull media where the user requests each item individually. Push media usually entail some notion of a "channel" which the user selects and which delivers a particular kind of content. Broadcast television is (for the most part) the prototypical example of push media: you turn on the TV set, select a channel and shows and commercials stream out until you turn the set off. By contrast, the web is (mostly) the prototypical example of pull media: each "page", each bit of content, comes to the user only if he requests it; put down the keyboard and the mouse, and everything stops. At the time of writing (April 1997), much effort is being put into blurring the line between push media and pull media. Most of this is aimed at bringing more push media to the Internet, mainly as a way to disseminate advertising, since telling people about products they didn't know they wanted is very difficult in a strict pull media model. These emergent forms of push media are generally variations on targeted advertising mixed in with bits of useful content. "At home on your computer, the same system will run soothing screensavers underneath regular news flashes, all while keeping track, in one corner, of press releases from companies whose stocks you own. With frequent commercial messages, of course." (Wired, March 1997, page 12). As part of the eternal desire to apply a fun new words to boring old things, "push" is occasionally used to mean nothing more than email spam.
  • pyramidist — an expert in the structure and history of the Egyptian pyramids
  • pyranoside — a glycoside containing a pyran ring structure.
  • quadriceps — a large muscle in front of the thigh, the action of which extends the leg or bends the hip joint.
  • radioscope — an instrument, such as a fluoroscope, capable of detecting radiant energy
  • radioscopy — the examination of objects opaque to light by means of another form of radiation, usually x-rays.
  • readership — the people who read or are thought to read a particular book, newspaper, magazine, etc.: The periodical has a dwindling readership.
  • redispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
  • reprimands — a severe reproof or rebuke, especially a formal one by a person in authority.
  • rhapsodist — a person who rhapsodizes.
  • rhapsodize — to talk with extravagant enthusiasm.
  • rose aphid — a dark green aphid, Macrosiphum rosae, that feeds on roses and related plants.
  • sand viper — hognose snake.
  • scindapsus — any plant of the tropical Asiatic climbing genus Scindapsus, typically stem rooting, esp S. aureus and S. pictus, grown as greenhouse or house plants for their leathery heart-shaped variegated leaves: family Araceae
  • scorpaenid — belonging or pertaining to the Scorpaenidae, a family of marine fishes with spiny fins, including the rockfishes, scorpionfishes, and lionfishes.
  • sea spider — any member of the arthropod class Pycnogonida, marine invertebrates with eight long walking legs attached to a small body consisting of a cephalothorax and vestigial abdomen.
  • septicidal — (of a capsule) dehiscing lengthwise along a septum.
  • shadow pin — a vertical pin set in an azimuth instrument or at the center of a compass card, indicating by the direction of its shadow the azimuth of the sun.
  • ship-bread — hardtack.
  • shiplapped — of, related to, or resembling shiplap
  • side plate — a small plate used for bread or other accompaniments to a meal
  • spadiceous — Botany. of the nature of a spadix. bearing a spadix.
  • spasmodist — a person who is spasmodic, especially in style, as a writer, painter, etc.
  • spatangoid — a type of sea urchin
  • spear side — the male side, or line of descent, of a family (opposed to distaff side or spindle side).
  • speed dial — phone feature: calling a number automatically
  • speed-dial — to dial (a telephone number) using speed dial.
  • spermatoid — resembling sperm.
  • sphenoidal — relating to the sphenoid bone
  • spheroidal — pertaining to a spheroid or spheroids.
  • spiculated — covered with spicules or needle-like
  • spindleage — total number or capacity of spindles in a mill, area, etc.
  • spinigrade — a type of spiny echinoderm
  • spondaical — composed of spondees
  • sporadical — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
  • sporicidal — a substance or preparation for killing spores.
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