10-letter words containing a, r, n, d
- pared-down — If you describe something as pared-down, you mean that it has no unnecessary features, and has been reduced to a very simple form.
- parenthood — the state, position, or relation of a parent.
- parmenides — flourished c450 b.c, Greek Eleatic philosopher.
- pathfinder — a historical novel (1840) by James Fenimore Cooper.
- patronised — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
- 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.
- 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.
- peduncular — Botany. a flower stalk, supporting either a cluster or a solitary flower. the stalk bearing the fruiting body in fungi.
- pentachord — a series of five consecutive notes of a scale
- 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.
- phone card — calling card (def 3).
- 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.
- playground — an area used for outdoor play or recreation, especially by children, and often containing recreational equipment such as slides and swings.
- plunderage — act of plundering; pillage.
- polyandric — polyandrous.
- ponderable — capable of being considered carefully or deeply.
- 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)
- port sudan — a seaport in the NE Sudan, on the Red Sea.
- 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.
- qaraghandy — a city in central Kazakhstan.
- quadrangle — a plane figure having four angles and four sides, as a square.
- quadrantal — a quarter of a circle; an arc of 90°.
- quadrantic — Of, pertaining to, or affecting a quadrant.
- quadrantid — any member of a meteor shower occurring annually around January 3 and appearing to radiate from a point in the constellation Boötes
- quadrating — Present participle of quadrate.
- quadrennia — Plural form of quadrennium.
- quadricone — a quadric surface swept out by a straight line that passes through a fixed point such that no straight line can intersect it at more than two points
- quadrumane — a quadrumanous animal, as a monkey.