10-letter words containing a, d, u, p
- holdup man — a person who commits an armed robbery.
- humpbacked — having a hump on the back.
- hyperdulia — the veneration offered to the Virgin Mary as the most exalted of creatures.
- impaludism — a diseased state affecting the inhabitants of marshy areas
- inaptitude — lack of aptitude; unfitness.
- inculpated — Simple past tense and past participle of inculpate.
- input data — information entered into a computer
- jamshedpur — a city in SE Jharkhand, in NE India.
- jaspideous — Jaspidean; made of jasper.
- jeopardous — perilous; dangerous; hazardous; risky.
- jump leads — Jump leads are two thick wires that can be used to start a car when its battery does not have enough power. The jump leads are used to connect the battery to the battery of another car that is working properly.
- juxtaposed — to place close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.
- lagered-up — intoxicated, esp after drinking lager
- landlouper — A vagabond; a vagrant.
- launch pad — the platform on which a missile or launch vehicle undergoes final prelaunch checkout and countdown and from which it is launched from the surface of the earth.
- lead up to — to go before or with to show the way; conduct or escort: to lead a group on a cross-country hike.
- loud pedal — a pedal on a piano that when depressed with the foot raises the dampers and permits the strings to vibrate and sustain the tone.
- modula-3pi — Machine-independent intermediate language for compilation of Modula-3*. "Modula-3pi Language Definition", E.A. Heinz, TR, U Karlsruhe 1993.
- muckspread — to muckrake
- mudcapping — the process or act of blasting a rock surface with explosives
- multipaned — having or comprising more than one pane, esp of glass
- neuropodia — Plural form of neuropodium.
- outspreads — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outspread.
- packed out — If a place is packed out, it is very full of people.
- paedeutics — the study of teaching
- pandurated — fiddle-shaped
- panjandrum — a self-important or pretentious official.
- pantsuited — wearing a pantsuit
- papandreou — Andreas [ahn-drey-uh s] /ɑnˈdreɪ əs/ (Show IPA), (George) 1919–1996, Greek political leader: premier 1981–89 (son of George Papandreou).
- paperbound — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
- paradoxure — any of a number of palm civet species
- parapodium — one of the unjointed rudimentary limbs or processes of locomotion of many worms, as annelids.
- pasquinade — a satire or lampoon, especially one posted in a public place.
- pediculate — of or related to the Pediculati, a group of teleost fishes, characterized by the elongated base of their pectoral fins, simulating an arm or peduncle.
- pedipalpus — the second paired appendage in Arachnida
- peduncular — Botany. a flower stalk, supporting either a cluster or a solitary flower. the stalk bearing the fruiting body in fungi.
- perdurable — very durable; permanent; imperishable.
- perdurance — permanence; the quality of lasting or enduring forever
- piano duet — a musical composition for two pianists playing two pianos or together at one piano.
- plasmodium — Biology. an ameboid, multinucleate mass or sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of organisms, as of myxomycetes or slime molds.
- plastidule — a small particle of protoplasm
- plauditory — approving or laudatory
- play cupid — If you say that someone is playing cupid, you mean that they are trying to bring two people together to start a romantic relationship.
- played out — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- playground — an area used for outdoor play or recreation, especially by children, and often containing recreational equipment such as slides and swings.
- ploughhead — the draught iron of a plough
- ploughland — land that is ploughed for growing crops
- plunderage — act of plundering; pillage.
- podocarpus — any of various coniferous evergreen trees of the genus Podocarpus, of tropical and semitropical regions, especially P. macrophyllus, which is cultivated as an ornamental.
- port sudan — a seaport in the NE Sudan, on the Red Sea.