13-letter words containing a, d, u, p
- pandiculation — the act of stretching oneself.
- pao de acucar — Portuguese name of Sugarloaf Mountain.
- parade ground — A parade ground is an area of ground where soldiers practise marching and have parades.
- paradigm plus — A configurable object-oriented CASE tool from Proto Soft.
- paradise duck — a large duck, Casarca variegata, of New Zealand, having a brightly coloured plumage
- partly cloudy — sky: not constantly clear
- pas de basque — a step in which the dancer swings one foot to the side, springs onto it, and swings the other foot against it.
- passamaquoddy — a member of a small tribe of North American Indians formerly of coastal Maine and New Brunswick and now living in Maine.
- peace studies — a field of political science which examines how to reduce conflicts
- pease pudding — a pudding of strained split peas mixed with egg.
- pedal pushers — women's short trousers
- pentadelphous — (of a plant) having its stamens arranged in five groups; (of stamens) being arranged in five groups
- perpendicular — vertical; straight up and down; upright.
- pharaoh hound — one of a breed of medium-sized gazehounds with a smooth coat, red to tan in color with white markings, and erect ears.
- philo judaeus — c20 b.c.–a.d. c50, Alexandrian Jewish theologian and philosopher.
- phyllocladous — having phylloclades.
- piper gurnard — a marine fish, Trigla lyra, of the family Triglidae
- plague-ridden — afflicted by the plague or a plague
- platiniridium — a natural alloy composed chiefly of platinum and iridium.
- platinum disc — (in Britain) an album certified to have sold 300 000 copies or a single certified to have sold 600 000 copies
- platitudinize — to utter platitudes.
- platitudinous — characterized by or given to platitudes.
- pleasure dome — a large building, facility, or place used for recreation.
- plough monday — the first Monday after Epiphany, which in N and E England used to be celebrated with a procession of ploughmen drawing a plough from house to house
- plug and play — (sometimes lowercase) a standard for the production of compatible computers, peripherals, and software that facilitates device installation and enables automatic configuration of the system.
- plug and pray — (humour) The Windows 95 equivalent of the Macintosh's plug and play, referring to difficulties encountered when setting up new hardware under Windows 95.
- plug-and-play — Plug-and-play is used to describe computer equipment, for example a printer, that is ready to use immediately when you connect it to a computer.
- point d'appui — a support or prop
- polyadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three or more sets or bundles.
- polybutadiene — a rubberlike polymer of butadiene blended with other synthetics to replace natural rubber in tires.
- port du salut — Port-Salut.
- post-freudian — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
- post-graduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
- postdebutante — following the stage of being a debutante
- potter around — If you potter around or potter about, you do pleasant but unimportant things, without hurrying.
- poulard wheat — a Mediterranean wheat, Triticum turgidum, grown as a forage crop in the U.S.
- pre-adulthood — of or relating to the period prior to adulthood: preadult strivings for independence.
- pre-education — the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
- preformulated — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
- preindustrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
- prejudication — the act of judging beforehand
- prejudicative — tending to prejudge
- prejudicially — causing prejudice or disadvantage; detrimental.
- premandibular — situated in front of the mandible
- pressure drag — the part of the total drag of a body moving through a gas or liquid caused by the components of the pressures at right angles to the surface of the body
- pressure head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
- private study — the act or process of studying outwith classes
- product range — variety of merchandise within a brand
- provost guard — a detachment of soldiers assigned to police duties under the provost marshal.
- prudentialism — a regard for prudential, rather than moral, considerations