11-letter words containing a, d, u, p
- mispersuade — to persuade wrongly
- mope around — If you mope around or mope about a place, you wander around there not doing anything, looking and feeling unhappy.
- muck-up day — the last day of school before the annual examinations, marked by practical jokes and other student pranks
- mustard pot — a small pot, of glass, silver, etc, placed on the table to serve mustard
- nudist camp — a resort where nudism is practiced
- numeric pad — a separate section on some computer keyboards, grouping together numeric keys and those for mathematical or other special functions in an arrangement like that of a calculator.
- operculated — relating to the operculum
- ophidiarium — an enclosure for snakes, adapted to their normal living conditions
- orphan drug — Pharmacology. a drug that remains undeveloped or untested or is otherwise neglected because of limited potential for commercial gain.
- painted cup — any of several semiparasitic plants of the genus Castilleja, of the figwort family, having highly colored dilated bracts about the flowers.
- palm sunday — the Sunday before Easter, celebrated in commemoration of Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem.
- pandemonium — wild uproar or unrestrained disorder; tumult or chaos.
- paper round — job delivering newspapers
- paper-bound — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
- parasuicide — the deliberate infliction of injury on oneself or the taking of a drug overdose as an attempt at suicide which may not be intended to be successful
- parlourmaid — In former times, a parlourmaid was a female servant in a private house whose job involved serving people at table.
- parodontium — periodontium.
- pas de deux — a dance by two persons.
- pass around — distribute, circulate
- passo fundo — a city in S Brazil.
- pasteurised — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
- pasteurized — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
- pastureland — Also called pastureland [pas-cher-land, pahs-] /ˈpæs tʃərˌlænd, ˈpɑs-/ (Show IPA). an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
- pay dispute — a disagreement between workers and employers concerning salary
- pedagoguery — a teacher; schoolteacher.
- pedagoguish — resembling or reminiscent of a pedagogue
- pediculated — having a stalk or stalks
- pedunculate — having a peduncle.
- peng dehuai — 1898–1974, Chinese Communist military leader: defense minister 1954–59.
- pentandrous — of or pertaining to the order of plants Pentandria, characterized by having five stamens
- perduration — the act of lasting forever or enduring continually; the capacity to endure indefinitely
- pericardium — the membranous sac enclosing the heart.
- perpetuated — to make perpetual.
- persuadable — to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
- piss around — If you say that someone pisses around or pisses about, you mean they waste a lot of time doing unimportant things.
- plaid cymru — the Welsh nationalist party
- play around — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- pleurodynia — pain in the chest or side.
- pneudraulic — of or relating to a mechanism involving both pneumatic and hydraulic action.
- pneumathode — a band or pore of aerating tissue, esp along the stipes of ferns
- point guard — Basketball. the guard who directs the team's offense from the point.
- poke around — to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.
- polyandrous — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or practicing polyandry; polyandric.
- pompadoured — styled in a pompadour
- pouched rat — pocket gopher.
- preaudience — the right to be given an audience before other people; the privilege of being the first to be heard
- prejudicant — judging beforehand
- prejudicate — to judge beforehand
- prejudicial — causing prejudice or disadvantage; detrimental.
- proctodaeum — proctodeum.