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10-letter words containing a, p, d, n

  • ponderance — weight or significance
  • pontevedra — a port in NW Spain: takes its name from a 12-arched Roman bridge, the Pons Vetus. Pop: 77 993 (2003 est)
  • ponytailed — having a ponytail
  • port sudan — a seaport in the NE Sudan, on the Red Sea.
  • pound cake — a rich, sweet cake made originally with approximately a pound each of butter, sugar, and flour.
  • pranidhana — (in Mahayana Buddhism) the resolution not to enter nirvana until all beings are ready to enter.
  • prebendary — a canon or member of the clergy who is entitled to a prebend for special services at a cathedral or collegiate church.
  • predentate — of an infant whose teeth have not yet developed; occurring during or pertaining to this period of development
  • premundane — before the creation of the world; antemundane.
  • preplanned — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
  • prereading — of or relating to the period before reading a text, book, etc
  • pretendant — a pretender
  • pro-indian — Also called American Indian, Amerind, Amerindian, Native American. a member of the aboriginal people of America or of any of the aboriginal North or South American stocks, usually excluding the Eskimos.
  • pronograde — walking with the body parallel to the ground
  • propaganda — information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
  • prudential — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or resulting from prudence.
  • pteranodon — a flying reptile of the extinct order Pterosauria, from the Cretaceous Period, having a wingspread of about 25 feet (8 meters).
  • punch card — punched card
  • punchboard — a small board containing holes filled with slips of paper printed with concealed numbers that are punched out by a player in an attempt to win a prize.
  • pyramidion — a miniature pyramid, as at the apex of an obelisk.
  • pyranoside — a glycoside containing a pyran ring structure.
  • radiophone — a radiotelephone.
  • rawalpindi — a city in N Pakistan: former provisional capital.
  • re-planned — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
  • read up on — If you read up on a subject, you read a lot about it so that you become informed about it.
  • readoption — the adoption of something or someone again
  • reprimands — a severe reproof or rebuke, especially a formal one by a person in authority.
  • rhodophane — the red colour found in the inner cones of the retina in animals
  • ropedancer — a person who walks across or performs acrobatics upon a rope stretched at some height above the floor or ground.
  • round tape — (storage, jargon)   Industry-standard 1/2-inch magnetic tape (7- or 9-track) on traditional circular reels. See macrotape, opposite: square tape.
  • sand perch — squirrelfish.
  • sand viper — hognose snake.
  • sandgroper — a nickname for a Western Australian
  • sandpapery — of or suggesting the grating sound of sandpaper rubbing against wood or the rough texture of sandpaper.
  • sappanwood — a dyewood yielding a red color, produced by a small, East Indian tree, Caesalpinia sappan, of the legume family.
  • scindapsus — any plant of the tropical Asiatic climbing genus Scindapsus, typically stem rooting, esp S. aureus and S. pictus, grown as greenhouse or house plants for their leathery heart-shaped variegated leaves: family Araceae
  • scorpaenid — belonging or pertaining to the Scorpaenidae, a family of marine fishes with spiny fins, including the rockfishes, scorpionfishes, and lionfishes.
  • seed plant — a seed-bearing plant; spermatophyte.
  • senna pods — the dried fruits of any of these plants, used as a cathartic and laxative
  • shadow pin — a vertical pin set in an azimuth instrument or at the center of a compass card, indicating by the direction of its shadow the azimuth of the sun.
  • snapdragon — any plant belonging to the genus Antirrhinum, of the figwort family, especially A. majus, cultivated for its spikes of showy flowers, each having a corolla supposed to resemble the mouth of a dragon.
  • snowcapped — topped with snow: the snowcapped Alps.
  • solar pond — a pool with a bottom layer of salt water and top layer of fresh water, designed to capture solar radiation as a source of energy for generating heat or electricity.
  • soundscape — the component sounds of an environment.
  • spasm band — an old-time jazz band, flourishing especially in the late 19th century, the members of which used improvised instruments, as cigar boxes, barrels, kazoos, whistles, and jugs, and often marched in the street while performing.
  • spatangoid — a type of sea urchin
  • sphenoidal — relating to the sphenoid bone
  • spindleage — total number or capacity of spindles in a mill, area, etc.
  • spinigrade — a type of spiny echinoderm
  • splashdown — the landing of a space vehicle in a body of water, especially the ocean.
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