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

  • duplation — multiplication by two; doubling.
  • duplicand — the twofold increase of feu-duty for the period of a year, or the feu-duty paid, as occasioned at specific times
  • duplicate — a copy exactly like an original.
  • dutch cap — a woman's lace cap with triangular flaps, characteristic of Dutch national dress
  • dutch lap — a method of laying shingles, slates, or the like, in which each shingle or slate overlaps those below and to one side and is itself overlapped by those above and to the other side.
  • duty paid — on which duty has been paid
  • epauleted — Wearing epaulets; decorated with epaulets.
  • epidaurus — an ancient port in Greece, in the NE Peloponnese, in Argolis on the Saronic Gulf
  • epidurals — Plural form of epidural.
  • euphausid — (zoology) Any member of the Euphausidae.
  • galumphed — Simple past tense and past participle of galumph.
  • guard pin — (in a lever escapement) a pin on the lever, meeting the safety roller in such a way as to prevent the lever from overbanking.
  • guardpost — Alternative spelling of guard post.
  • guardship — a warship responsible for the safety of other ships in its company
  • hacked up — (jargon, programming)   Sufficiently patched, kluged, and tweaked that the surgical scars are beginning to crowd out normal tissue (compare critical mass). Not all programs that are hacked become "hacked up"; if modifications are done with some eye to coherence and continued maintainability, the software may emerge better for the experience. Contrast hack up.
  • hands up! — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • hard-spun — (of yarn) compactly twisted in spinning.
  • harden up — to tighten the sheets of a sailing vessel so as to prevent luffing
  • harumphed — Simple past tense and past participle of harumph.
  • jazzed up — music originating in New Orleans around the beginning of the 20th century and subsequently developing through various increasingly complex styles, generally marked by intricate, propulsive rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, improvisatory, virtuosic solos, melodic freedom, and a harmonic idiom ranging from simple diatonicism through chromaticism to atonality.
  • jazzed-up — made more exciting and more modern
  • jump dial — a timepiece dial in which the numbers are seen through apertures.
  • jump head — the headline printed over the continued portion of a story in a newspaper, magazine, etc., usually condensed from the main headline.
  • jump lead — Jump leads are thick electrical leads that are used to connect a flat battery in a vehicle to an external charged battery, such as the battery of another vehicle, so that the first vehicle can be started.
  • lampedusa — Giuseppe (Tomasi) di [joo-zep-pe taw-mah-zee-dee] /dʒuˈzɛp pɛ tɔˈmɑ zi di/ (Show IPA), 1896–1957, Italian novelist.
  • lapideous — (obsolete) Of the nature of stone.
  • launchpad — 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.
  • marked-up — a visible impression or trace on something, as a line, cut, dent, stain, or bruise: a small mark on his arm.
  • 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.
  • nauplioid — of or relating to the first stage in the development of a freshly hatched nauplius larva
  • outplayed — Simple past tense and past participle of outplay.
  • outspread — spread out; stretched out: outspread arms.
  • paedeutic — of or relating to the study of teaching
  • palladium — a rare metallic element of the platinum group, silver-white, ductile and malleable, harder and fusing more readily than platinum: used chiefly as a catalyst and in dental and other alloys. Symbol: Pd; atomic weight: 106.4; atomic number: 46; specific gravity: 12 at 20°C.
  • palladous — of or containing bivalent palladium.
  • paludrine — proguanil hydrochloride, a synthetic antimalarial drug first produced in 1944
  • panderous — resembling a pander
  • pandurate — shaped like a fiddle, as a leaf.
  • paragould — a city in NE Arkansas.
  • pardubice — a city in N central Czech Republic, on the Elbe River.
  • pate dure — hard paste.
  • pauperdom — the state of being a person who is extremely poor
  • pedagogue — a teacher; schoolteacher.
  • pedicular — of or relating to lice.
  • pendulate — to swing in the motion of a pendulum
  • 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.
  • planuloid — relating to a planula
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