10-letter words containing a, m, d
- palindrome — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
- palmatifid — displaying palmate characteristics
- palmcorder — A palmcorder is a small video camera that you can hold in the palm of your hand.
- pandemonic — wild uproar or unrestrained disorder; tumult or chaos.
- pandermite — a white, marble-like mineral
- panjandrum — a self-important or pretentious official.
- pantomimed — the art or technique of conveying emotions, actions, feelings, etc., by gestures without speech.
- pantrymaid — a domestic maid whose duties concern the pantry
- parapodium — one of the unjointed rudimentary limbs or processes of locomotion of many worms, as annelids.
- parlormaid — a maid who takes care of a parlor, answers the door, waits on guests, etc.
- parmenides — flourished c450 b.c, Greek Eleatic philosopher.
- party mood — a celebratory mood; readiness for a party
- paste mold — a mold lined with a moist carbonized paste, for shaping glass as it is blown.
- pedagogism — the principles, manner, method, or characteristics of pedagogues.
- permadeath — (in a game, often a video game) the permanent death of a defeated character, after which the player of the game cannot continue with the same character.
- photodrama — photoplay.
- pindo palm — a feather palm, Butia capitata, of Brazil, having long, arching leaves, grayish beneath, and small, egg-shaped fruit.
- pipe dream — unattainable wish
- pipe-dream — to indulge in pipe dreams; fantasize.
- plasmodial — Biology. an ameboid, multinucleate mass or sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of organisms, as of myxomycetes or slime molds.
- plasmodium — Biology. an ameboid, multinucleate mass or sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of organisms, as of myxomycetes or slime molds.
- pockmarked — Usually, pockmarks. scars or pits left by a pustule in smallpox or the like.
- postmarked — an official mark stamped on letters and other mail, serving as a cancellation of the postage stamp and indicating the place, date, and sometimes time of sending or receipt.
- praeludium — a prelude, now predominantly in a musical context
- preadamite — a person supposed to have existed before Adam.
- premedical — of or relating to studies in preparation for the formal study of medicine: a premedical course.
- premundane — before the creation of the world; antemundane.
- prestamped — stamped in advance
- primordial — constituting a beginning; giving origin to something derived or developed; original; elementary: primordial forms of life.
- prismatoid — a polyhedron having its vertices lying on two parallel planes.
- prodromata — signs or symptoms revealing the onset of a disease
- programmed — a plan of action to accomplish a specified end: a school lunch program.
- psalmodize — to sing psalms
- pseudimago — (of insects) a form similar to the adult, but which is not a true adult
- pseudoalum — any of a class of alums in which the usual monovalent metal of a true alum is replaced by a bivalent metal
- 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".
- 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.
- pyramidion — a miniature pyramid, as at the apex of an obelisk.
- pyramidist — an expert in the structure and history of the Egyptian pyramids
- quadriform — having four parts or sides
- quadrireme — (in classical antiquity) a galley having four banks of oars.
- quadrivium — (during the Middle Ages) the more advanced division of the seven liberal arts, comprising arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music.
- quadrumane — a quadrumanous animal, as a monkey.
- quadrumvir — a member of a quadrumvirate.
- rabdomancy — Alt form rhabdomancy.
- radicalism — the holding or following of radical or extreme views or principles.
- radiciform — resembling a root
- radio beam — beam (def 12).
- radio mast — transmission tower
- radiometer — Also called Crookes radiometer. an instrument for demonstrating the transformation of radiant energy into mechanical work, consisting of an exhausted glass vessel containing vanes that revolve about an axis when exposed to light.