9-letter words containing a, d, s, p
- megapodes — Plural form of megapode.
- midspread — (statistics) The interquartile range.
- mindscape — A mental landscape; the world of the mind.
- misopedia — hatred of children, especially one's own.
- mispacked — filled to capacity; full: They've had a packed theater for every performance.
- misplaced — to put in a wrong place.
- misplayed — Simple past tense and past participle of misplay.
- misshaped — Simple past tense and past participle of misshape.
- mopboards — Plural form of mopboard.
- mouse pad — mouse mat
- mud-flaps — a large flap behind a rear tire to prevent mud, water, etc., from being splashed on the following vehicle.
- myriapods — Plural form of myriapod.
- olympiads — Plural form of olympiad.
- opalesced — Simple past tense and past participle of opalesce.
- outspread — spread out; stretched out: outspread arms.
- pad stone — a stone template.
- padronism — a system of exploitative work controlled by a padrone
- palisades — a fence of pales or stakes set firmly in the ground, as for enclosure or defense.
- palladous — of or containing bivalent palladium.
- panderess — a female panderer
- panderism — the work of a pander
- panderous — resembling a pander
- pantdress — a dress with a divided skirt
- paradisal — paradisiacal.
- paralysed — unable to move and with no feeling
- parasoled — having a parasol
- parsleyed — cooked with or sprinkled with parsley
- pas d'ane — a pair of rings set below and at right angles to the quillons of a sword as a guard for the forefinger.
- pasodoble — fast modern ballroom dance
- pass band — the range of frequencies that pass with a minimum of attenuation through an electronic filter.
- passepied — a lively dance in triple meter popular in France in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- pastedown — the leaf of an endpaper that is pasted to the inside of the front or back cover of a book.
- pedantism — pedantry.
- pederasty — sexual relations between two males, especially when one of them is a minor.
- pelopidas — died 364 b.c, Greek general and statesman of Thebes.
- pen-based — (of a computer) having an electronic stylus rather than a keyboard as the primary input device.
- penalised — to subject to a penalty, as a person.
- peptidase — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of peptides or peptones to amino acids.
- perradius — any of the main rays of a member of the Radiata group
- persuaded — to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
- persuader — a person or thing that persuades: The cool lake was a most enticing persuader for those who liked to swim.
- phasedown — an act or instance of phasing down; gradual reduction.
- pied shag — a large New Zealand seabird, Phalacrocorax varius, with a white throat and underparts
- pinelands — the, an extensive coastal region in S and SE New Jersey, composed chiefly of pine stands, sandy soils, and swampy streams. About 2000 sq. mi. (5180 sq. km).
- planeside — the area on either side of an airplane.
- plasmodia — Biology. an ameboid, multinucleate mass or sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of organisms, as of myxomycetes or slime molds.
- plastered — drunk.
- pleadings — the act of a person who pleads.
- pleasured — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- plumdamas — a damson plum or prune