9-letter words containing a, d, p, o
- pompadour — Marquise de (Jeanne Antoinette Poisson Le Normant d'Étioles) 1721–64, mistress of Louis XV of France.
- ponderate — deliberate or intentional
- ponderosa — a North American pine tree
- pondoland — an area in SE central South Africa: inhabited chiefly by the Pondo people
- poppy day — Remembrance Day
- poppyhead — a finial or other ornament, often richly carved, as the top of the upright end of a bench or pew.
- populated — to inhabit; live in; be the inhabitants of.
- porbandar — a seaport in SW Gujarat, in W India.
- port said — a seaport in NE Egypt at the Mediterranean end of the Suez Canal.
- portadown — a town in S Northern Ireland, in the district of Armagh. Pop: 25 958 (2001)
- portalled — a door, gate, or entrance, especially one of imposing appearance, as to a palace.
- portrayed — to make a likeness of by drawing, painting, carving, or the like.
- posigrade — of, relating to, or designating motion in the same direction as the current or normal motion
- post road — (formerly) a road with stations for furnishing horses for postriders, mail coaches, or travelers.
- post-paid — with the postage prepaid
- postaudit — an audit of accounting records, conducted at some interval of time after a transaction or a series of transactions has already occurred.
- postdated — to date (a check, invoice, letter, document) with a date later than the actual date.
- posteriad — toward the posterior; posteriorly.
- poujadism — a conservative reactionary movement to protect the business interests of small traders
- poundcake — a rich, sweet cake made originally with approximately a pound each of butter, sugar, and flour.
- powderman — a person in charge of explosives, especially in a demolition crew.
- powfagged — exhausted
- predation — depredation; plundering.
- predatory — Zoology. preying upon other organisms for food.
- predomain — (theory) A domain with no bottom element.
- preordain — to ordain beforehand; foreordain.
- primordia — the first recognizable, histologically differentiated stage in the development of an organ.
- pro-rated — to make an arrangement on a basis of proportional distribution.
- pro-trade — the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.
- proctodea — parts of the anus
- prodromal — a premonitory symptom.
- programed — a plan of action to accomplish a specified end: a school lunch program.
- progravid — progestational (def 1).
- promenade — a stroll or walk, especially in a public place, as for pleasure or display.
- proofread — to read (printers' proofs, copy, etc.) in order to detect and mark errors to be corrected.
- prosodial — of or relating to prosody
- prosodian — a person skilled in prosody
- pulpboard — a board made from pulpwood.
- pyramidon — a pedal organ stop made of wooden pipes in the shape of an inverted pyramid
- pyridoxal — a naturally occurring derivative of pyridoxine that is a precursor of a coenzyme (pyridoxal phosphate) involved in several enzymic reactions. Formula: (CH2OH)(CHO)C5HN(OH)(CH3)
- ramp down — decrease effort, work
- rhamphoid — beaklike or beak-shaped
- rhapsodic — extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic.
- road hump — speed bump that slows traffic
- road trip — journey in a car, bus, etc.
- sandspout — the sand sucked into the air by a whirlwind
- sapanwood — a dyewood yielding a red color, produced by a small, East Indian tree, Caesalpinia sappan, of the legume family.
- sapodilla — a large evergreen tree, Manilkara zapota, of tropical America, bearing an edible fruit and yielding chicle. Compare sapodilla family.
- saponated — treated or combined with soap
- scalloped — Scalloped objects are decorated with a series of small curves along the edges.