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11-letter words containing a, p, o, d

  • lost pleiad — See under Pleiades (def 1).
  • loudspeaker — any of various devices, usually electronic, by which speech, music, etc., can be intensified and made audible throughout a room, hall, or the like.
  • macropodous — (of a leaf) having a long stalk.
  • madreporian — Resembling, or pertaining to, the genus Madrepora.
  • madreporite — a sievelike plate in certain echinoderms, through which water passes into the vascular system.
  • media group — an association of companies involved with the means of mass communication
  • metapodials — Plural form of metapodial.
  • model plane — a small-scale model of an aircraft, which may or may not be able to fly
  • mom and pop — a small family-owned private business enterprise
  • mom-and-pop — of or relating to a small retail business, usually owned and operated by members of a family: a mom-and-pop grocery.
  • monographed — Simple past tense and past participle of monograph.
  • mope around — If you mope around or mope about a place, you wander around there not doing anything, looking and feeling unhappy.
  • mpls domain — (networking)   A portion of a network that contains devices that understand MPLS.
  • mustard pot — a small pot, of glass, silver, etc, placed on the table to serve mustard
  • namedropper — A person who name-drops.
  • nasal drops — Nasal drops are medicine that you put directly in your nose one drop at a time.
  • nodal point — either of two points on the axis of a lens or other optical system, determined by extending an incident oblique ray and the corresponding refracted ray to the axis for the pair of rays that are parallel outside the optical system.
  • nonadaptive — serving or able to adapt; showing or contributing to adaptation: the adaptive coloring of a chameleon.
  • octapeptide — An oligopeptide having eight amino acids.
  • odd-pinnate — pinnate with an odd terminal leaflet.
  • odontograph — an instrument for laying out the forms of gear teeth or ratchets.
  • odontopathy — (pathology) Any disease that affects the teeth.
  • odynophagia — Severe pain in mouth or esophagus when attempting to swallow.
  • old persian — an ancient West Iranian language attested by cuneiform inscriptions. Abbreviation: OPers.
  • old spanish — the Spanish language of the 12th to the 16th centuries. Abbreviation: OSp.
  • open dating — the practice of putting a freshness date on food packages.
  • open-handed — generous; liberal: openhanded hospitality.
  • openhearted — Frank and candid.
  • operculated — relating to the operculum
  • ophidiarium — an enclosure for snakes, adapted to their normal living conditions
  • opinionated — obstinate or conceited with regard to the merit of one's own opinions; conceitedly dogmatic.
  • order paper — a list indicating the order in which business is to be conducted, esp in Parliament
  • orland park — a town in NE Illinois.
  • orphan drug — Pharmacology. a drug that remains undeveloped or untested or is otherwise neglected because of limited potential for commercial gain.
  • orthopaedic — of or relating to orthopedics.
  • over-expand — to increase in extent, size, volume, scope, etc.: Heat expands most metals. He hopes to expand his company.
  • overplaided — (of a garment) covered with a design consisting of an overplaid
  • overplanned — resulting from overplanning
  • paddle boat — small boat with pedals
  • paddle worm — any of a family of green-blue faintly iridescent active marine polychaete worms of the genus Phyllodoce, having paddle-shaped swimming lobes, found under stones on the shore
  • paddleboard — a type of surfboard with one end rounded and the other tapered to a point, used chiefly in surfing and often in lifesaving.
  • paddy wagon — Informal. patrol wagon.
  • paedodontic — of or relating to paedodontics
  • paedophilia — Paedophilia is sexual activity with children or the condition of being sexually attracted to children.
  • paedotrophy — the art of raising children
  • pagoda tree — a Chinese leguminous tree, Sophora japonica, with ornamental white flowers and dark green foliage
  • palindromic — 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.
  • pandemonian — a noisy and disorderly person
  • pandemonium — wild uproar or unrestrained disorder; tumult or chaos.
  • pantalooned — wearing pantaloons
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