10-letter words containing a, d, p
- blade slap — the regular noise beat generated by the rotor blades of a helicopter
- boarded-up — with windows and doors covered with boards for security
- bodyshaper — an undergarment which flattens the stomach, bottom etc
- bond paper — a superior quality of strong white paper, used esp for writing and typing
- brachiopod — any marine invertebrate animal of the phylum Brachiopoda, having a ciliated feeding organ (lophophore) and a shell consisting of dorsal and ventral valves
- brain dump — (The act of telling someone) everything one knows about a particular topic. Typically used when someone is going to let a new party maintain a piece of code. Conceptually analogous to an operating system core dump in that it saves a lot of useful state before an exit. "You'll have to give me a brain dump on FOOBAR before you start your new job at HackerCorp." At Sun, this is also known as "TOI" (transfer of information).
- bread shop — a baker's shop
- brillo pad — a scouring pad made of wire wool filled with soap
- broad jump — an exercise and athletic contest in which competitors try to jump the farthest distance possible from a standing start from a fixed board or mark
- broad-jump — long-jump.
- broadpiece — an English coin replaced by the guinea in 1663
- camelopard — giraffe
- camp david — the US president's retreat in the Appalachian Mountains, Maryland: scene of the Camp David Agreement (Sept, 1978) between Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Menachem Begin of Israel, mediated by Jimmy Carter, which outlined a framework for establishing peace in the Middle East. This agreement was the basis of the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt signed in Washington (March, 1979)
- campaigned — Simple past tense and past participle of campaign.
- campground — A campground is the same as a campsite.
- campuswide — Throughout a campus.
- candlepins — a type of bowling game, employing a smaller ball than tenpins, in which three balls are allowed to a frame and fallen pins are not removed from the alley
- candy pull — a social gathering at which taffy or molasses candy is made.
- cape dutch — (in South Africa) a distinctive style of furniture or architecture
- cape verde — a cape in Senegal, near Dakar: the westernmost point of Africa
- cappadocia — an ancient region of E Asia Minor famous for its horses
- capsulated — Enclosed in a capsule.
- capsulised — Simple past tense and past participle of capsulise.
- capsulized — Simple past tense and past participle of capsulize.
- captivated — Simple past tense and past participle of captivate.
- card creep — chip creep
- card punch — keypunch (def 1).
- card-punch — Also, key punch. Also called card punch. a machine, operated by a keyboard, for coding information by punching holes in cards or paper tape in specified patterns.
- cardphones — Plural form of cardphone.
- cardplayer — a person who plays cards
- cardsharps — Plural form of cardsharp.
- carpe diem — enjoy the pleasures of the moment, without concern for the future
- carpetweed — an annual weed, Mollugo verticillata, native to North America, which produces small white flowers
- catapulted — an ancient military engine for hurling stones, arrows, etc.
- caudle cup — a deep drinking cup having two handles and, usually, a cover.
- cephalopod — any marine mollusc of the class Cephalopoda, characterized by well-developed head and eyes and a ring of sucker-bearing tentacles. The group also includes the octopuses, squids, cuttlefish, and pearly nautilus
- ceratopsid — a dinosaur belonging to the family Ceratopsidae, characterized by their parrot-like beaks, horns and neck frills
- championed — a person who has defeated all opponents in a competition or series of competitions, so as to hold first place: the heavyweight boxing champion.
- chaperoned — a person, usually a married or older woman, who, for propriety, accompanies a young unmarried woman in public or who attends a party of young unmarried men and women.
- charged up — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
- chip-based — (of electronic equipment or components) using or incorporating microchips
- cladophyll — a green, flattened branch arising from the axil of a leaf, with the shape and functions of a foliage leaf
- clamp down — To clamp down on people or activities means to take strong official action to stop or control them.
- clamp-down — a device, usually of some rigid material, for strengthening or supporting objects or fastening them together.
- clampdowns — Plural form of clampdown.
- clapboards — Plural form of clapboard.
- clappy-doo — a large black mussel
- clepsydras — Plural form of clepsydra.
- clipboards — Plural form of clipboard.
- cloud peak — a mountain in N central Wyoming: highest peak in the Bighorn Mountains. 13,175 feet (4018 meters).