10-letter words containing a, p, d, n
- pat. pend. — patent pending
- patchstand — a small tazza.
- pathfinder — a historical novel (1840) by James Fenimore Cooper.
- patronised — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
- peakedness — pale and drawn in appearance so as to suggest illness or stress; wan and sickly.
- peary land — a peninsula in N Greenland, extending into the Arctic Ocean: Cape Morris Jesup is at its N end. 200 miles (320 km) long.
- pedantical — ostentatious in one's learning.
- pedernales — a river in central Texas, flowing E to the Colorado river. About 105 miles (169 km) long.
- pedestrian — a person who goes or travels on foot; walker.
- pedodontia — the branch of dentistry dealing with the care and treatment of children's teeth.
- peduncular — Botany. a flower stalk, supporting either a cluster or a solitary flower. the stalk bearing the fruiting body in fungi.
- penal code — the aggregate of statutory enactments dealing with crimes and their punishment.
- pentachord — a series of five consecutive notes of a scale
- pentaploid — having a chromosome number that is five times the haploid number.
- pentapodic — (of a poetic line or verse) having five metrical feet
- perdurance — permanence; the quality of lasting or enduring forever
- peridental — periodontal.
- peridinian — a member of the genus Peridinium
- person-day — a unit of measurement, especially in accountancy, based on an ideal amount of work done by one person in one working day.
- phagedaena — a severe, destructive, eroding ulcer.
- phagedenic — a severe, destructive, eroding ulcer.
- phalloidin — a peptide toxin, responsible for the toxicity of the death cap mushroom, Amanita phalloides
- phenolated — containing phenol; carbolated.
- phone card — calling card (def 3).
- piano duet — a musical composition for two pianists playing two pianos or together at one piano.
- pig island — New Zealand
- pin-tailed — having a tapered tail with long, pointed central feathers.
- pinacoidal — belonging or relating to a pinacoid
- pindo palm — a feather palm, Butia capitata, of Brazil, having long, arching leaves, grayish beneath, and small, egg-shaped fruit.
- pinnatifid — (of a leaf) pinnately cleft, with clefts reaching halfway or more to the midrib.
- pinnatiped — having lobate feet.
- pinnigrade — moving by means of finlike parts or flippers, as the seals and walruses.
- pirandello — Luigi [loo-ee-jee] /luˈi dʒi/ (Show IPA), 1867–1936, Italian dramatist, novelist, and poet: Nobel prize 1934.
- placarding — a paperboard sign or notice, as one posted in a public place or carried by a demonstrator or picketer.
- placidness — pleasantly calm or peaceful; unruffled; tranquil; serenely quiet or undisturbed: placid waters.
- plain-laid — noting a rope laid right-handed with three left-handed strands, without a heart; hawser-laid.
- plainfield — a city in N New Jersey.
- planetwide — relating to or affecting a whole planet
- plant food — nourishment, as fertilizer or chemicals, for plants.
- platinated — to platinize.
- playground — an area used for outdoor play or recreation, especially by children, and often containing recreational equipment such as slides and swings.
- pleadingly — the act of a person who pleads.
- ploughland — land that is ploughed for growing crops
- plunderage — act of plundering; pillage.
- podcasting — a digital audio or video file or recording, usually part of a themed series, that can be downloaded from a website to a media player or computer: Download or subscribe to daily, one-hour podcasts of our radio show.
- polyandric — polyandrous.
- polydontia — the condition of having more than the normal number of teeth.
- pond snail — a general term for the freshwater snails: often specifically for the great pond snail (Limnaea stagnalis) and others of that genus. L. truncatula is a host of the liver fluke
- pond-apple — a tropical American, evergreen tree, Annona glabra, of the annona family, having yellowish-red flowers, grown as a grafting stock.
- ponderable — capable of being considered carefully or deeply.