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10-letter words containing a, d, u, p

  • pound cake — a rich, sweet cake made originally with approximately a pound each of butter, sugar, and flour.
  • praeludium — a prelude, now predominantly in a musical context
  • predacious — predatory; rapacious.
  • premundane — before the creation of the world; antemundane.
  • procedural — procedural language
  • prudential — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or resulting from prudence.
  • pseudimago — (of insects) a form similar to the adult, but which is not a true adult
  • pseudoacid — a compound that is not an acid but which undergoes certain typical reactions of an acid
  • pseudoalum — any of a class of alums in which the usual monovalent metal of a true alum is replaced by a bivalent metal
  • pseudocarp — accessory fruit.
  • pseudosalt — a compound whose formula is that of a salt, but that does not ionize in solution
  • puff adder — a large, thick-bodied, African viper, Bitis arietans, that inflates its body and hisses when disturbed.
  • puff-adder — a large, thick-bodied, African viper, Bitis arietans, that inflates its body and hisses when disturbed.
  • pull media — (messaging)   A model of media distribution were the bits of content have to be requested by the user, e.g. normal use of HTTP on the web. Opposite: "push media".
  • punch card — punched card
  • punchboard — a small board containing holes filled with slips of paper printed with concealed numbers that are punched out by a player in an attempt to win a prize.
  • push ahead — move sth forward
  • push aside — shove to one side
  • push media — (messaging)   A model of media distribution where items of content are sent to the user (viewer, listener, etc.) in a sequence, and at a rate, determined by a server to which the user has connected. This contrasts with pull media where the user requests each item individually. Push media usually entail some notion of a "channel" which the user selects and which delivers a particular kind of content. Broadcast television is (for the most part) the prototypical example of push media: you turn on the TV set, select a channel and shows and commercials stream out until you turn the set off. By contrast, the web is (mostly) the prototypical example of pull media: each "page", each bit of content, comes to the user only if he requests it; put down the keyboard and the mouse, and everything stops. At the time of writing (April 1997), much effort is being put into blurring the line between push media and pull media. Most of this is aimed at bringing more push media to the Internet, mainly as a way to disseminate advertising, since telling people about products they didn't know they wanted is very difficult in a strict pull media model. These emergent forms of push media are generally variations on targeted advertising mixed in with bits of useful content. "At home on your computer, the same system will run soothing screensavers underneath regular news flashes, all while keeping track, in one corner, of press releases from companies whose stocks you own. With frequent commercial messages, of course." (Wired, March 1997, page 12). As part of the eternal desire to apply a fun new words to boring old things, "push" is occasionally used to mean nothing more than email spam.
  • quadcopter — A rotorcraft propelled by four rotors.
  • quadriceps — a large muscle in front of the thigh, the action of which extends the leg or bends the hip joint.
  • quadripara — A female which has borne four offspring.
  • quadriplex — A building divided into four self-contained residences.
  • quadripole — an electric circuit with two input and two output terminals
  • quadrupeds — Plural form of quadruped.
  • quadrupled — fourfold; consisting of four parts: a quadruple alliance.
  • quadruples — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quadruple.
  • quadruplet — any group or combination of four.
  • quadruplex — fourfold; quadruple.
  • quadrupole — a set of four associated positive and negative electric charges or two associated magnetic dipoles
  • radiopaque — opaque to radiation; visible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy (opposed to radiotransparent).
  • read up on — If you read up on a subject, you read a lot about it so that you become informed about it.
  • repudiable — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
  • round tape — (storage, jargon)   Industry-standard 1/2-inch magnetic tape (7- or 9-track) on traditional circular reels. See macrotape, opposite: square tape.
  • scapulated — (of a raven) with white feathers across the scapular region
  • scindapsus — any plant of the tropical Asiatic climbing genus Scindapsus, typically stem rooting, esp S. aureus and S. pictus, grown as greenhouse or house plants for their leathery heart-shaped variegated leaves: family Araceae
  • soundscape — the component sounds of an environment.
  • spaced out — dazed or stupefied because of the influence of narcotic drugs.
  • spaced-out — dazed or stupefied because of the influence of narcotic drugs.
  • spadiceous — Botany. of the nature of a spadix. bearing a spadix.
  • speculated — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
  • spermaduct — a spermatic passage found in male animals
  • spiculated — covered with spicules or needle-like
  • spread out — extend, splay
  • spuleblade — the shoulder blade
  • stamp duty — land tax
  • steamed up — obscured by vapour
  • stipulated — to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of agreement (often followed by for).
  • subpoenaed — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
  • super band — the band of frequencies between 216 and 600 megahertz, used for cable television channels and Citizens Band.
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