7-letter words containing a, d, p
- capcode — (telecommunications) The address of a specific pager in a paging network.
- capered — to leap or skip about in a sprightly manner; prance; frisk; gambol.
- capsids — Plural form of capsid.
- champed — Simple past tense and past participle of champ.
- chapped — If your skin is chapped, it is dry, cracked, and sore.
- clamped — Simple past tense and past participle of clamp.
- clapped — to strike the palms of (one's hands) against one another resoundingly, and usually repeatedly, especially to express approval: She clapped her hands in appreciation.
- clasped — a device, usually of metal, for fastening together two or more things or parts of the same thing: a clasp for paper money; a clasp on a necklace.
- coapted — to bring close together: The surgeons coapted the edges of the wound.
- colpoda — any ciliated protozoan of the genus Colpoda, common in fresh water.
- compand — to compress (a transmitter signal) before transmission and then expand it after transmission
- copland — Aaron. 1900–90, US composer of orchestral and chamber music, ballets, and film music
- cramped — A cramped room or building is not big enough for the people or things in it.
- crapaud — a frog or toad
- crapped — (in craps) a losing throw, in which the total on the two dice is 2, 3, or 12.
- cuphead — a hemispherical bolt-head
- da capo — to be repeated (in whole or part) from the beginning
- dalapon — a herbicide used to kill perennial grasses
- dampens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dampen.
- dampers — Plural form of damper.
- dampest — Superlative form of damp Most damp.
- dampier — William. 1652–1715, English navigator, pirate, and writer: sailed around the world twice
- damping — moistening or wetting
- dampish — (obsolete) Characterised by noxious vapours; misty, smoky.
- daphnia — any water flea of the genus Daphnia, having a rounded body enclosed in a transparent shell and bearing branched swimming antennae
- daphnid — any water flea of the genus Daphnia
- daphnis — a Sicilian shepherd, the son of Hermes and a nymph, who was regarded as the inventor of pastoral poetry
- dapifer — The servant that brings the meat to the table at a meal.
- dapping — to fish by letting the bait fall lightly on the water.
- dappled — You use dappled to describe something that has dark or light patches on it, or that is made up of patches of light and shade.
- dapples — Plural form of dapple.
- dapsang — Also called Godwin Austen [god-win aw-stin] /ˈgɒd wɪn ˈɔ stɪn/ (Show IPA), Dapsang [duh p-suhng] /dəpˈsʌŋ/ (Show IPA). a mountain in N Kashmir, in the Karakoram range: second highest peak in the world. 28,250 feet (8611 meters).
- dapsone — an antimicrobial drug used to treat leprosy and certain types of dermatitis. Formula: C12H12N2O2S
- dashpot — a device for damping vibrations; the vibrating part is attached to a piston moving in a liquid-filled cylinder
- dasypod — an animal of the genus Dasypus, a type of armadillo
- datapad — (science fiction) A small handheld device used to gather, send, process etc. data.
- dauphin — In former times, the king and queen of France's oldest son was called the dauphin.
- daypack — a small rucksack
- deadpan — Deadpan humour is when you appear to be serious and are hiding the fact that you are joking or teasing someone.
- decamps — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decamp.
- decapod — any crustacean of the mostly marine order Decapoda, having five pairs of walking limbs: includes the crabs, lobsters, shrimps, prawns, and crayfish
- dectape — (hardware, storage) A reel of magnetic tape about 4 inches in diameter and one inch wide. Unlike today's macrotapes, microtape drivers allowed random access to the data, and therefore could be used to support file systems and even for swapping (this was generally done purely for hack value, as they were far too slow for practical use). DECtape was a variant on LINCtape. In their heyday DECtapes were used in pretty much the same ways one would now use a floppy disk: as a small, portable way to save and transport files and programs.
- delapse — a falling or sinking down
- depaint — to depict or delineate
- depants — to remove the trousers from, as a joke or punishment.
- departs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of depart.
- deplane — to disembark from an aeroplane
- deposal — the act of deposing from office; deposition
- deprave — Something that depraves someone makes them morally bad or evil.
- despair — Despair is the feeling that everything is wrong and that nothing will improve.