11-letter words containing d, a, l, e
- paddy field — a flooded piece of land used for growing rice
- paedophilia — Paedophilia is sexual activity with children or the condition of being sexually attracted to children.
- palatalized — Phonetics. pronounced with secondary palatal articulation.
- palladinize — to treat or cover (a surface) with palladium.
- palm desert — a town in S California, near Palm Springs.
- palm reader — fortune teller who interprets hand lines
- palmer land — the southern part of the Antarctic Peninsula.
- pantaletted — clothed in pantalets
- pantalooned — wearing pantaloons
- pappardelle — flat pasta cut in wide strips.
- paraldehyde — a colorless, liquid, cyclic compound, C 6 H 1 2 O 3 , having a disagreeable taste but an agreeable odor, produced by the polymerization of acetaldehyde with sulfuric acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of organic chemicals and in medicine as a sedative and hypnotic.
- parallelled — extending in the same direction, equidistant at all points, and never converging or diverging: parallel rows of trees.
- paramedical — related to the medical profession in a secondary or supplementary capacity.
- partialized — to bias.
- passed ball — a pitched ball that the catcher can reasonably be expected to catch but misses, resulting in a base runner's or runners' advancing one or more bases or in the batter's reaching first base safely.
- pastureland — Also called pastureland [pas-cher-land, pahs-] /ˈpæs tʃərˌlænd, ˈpɑs-/ (Show IPA). an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
- pearl danio — a slender iridescent tropical cyprinid, Brachydanio albolineatus, from parts of southeast Asia: a popular freshwater aquarium fish.
- pearl diver — a person who dives for pearl oysters or other pearl-bearing mollusks.
- pebble dash — an exterior wall finish composed of mortar against which, while still wet, small pebbles have been thrown and pressed in.
- pedagogical — of or relating to a pedagogue or pedagogy.
- pedal cycle — a cycle that is propelled by operating the pedals, as opposed to a motorcycle
- pedal piano — a piano having a pedal keyboard of 29 notes and connected with an action placed at the back where a special soundboard, covered with 29 strings, is built into the case.
- pedal point — a sustained bass note, over which the other parts move bringing about changing harmonies
- pedal power — use of a cycle
- pedestalled — an architectural support for a column, statue, vase, or the like.
- pedicellate — having a pedicel or pedicels.
- pediculated — having a stalk or stalks
- pedological — the scientific study of the nature and development of children.
- pedophiliac — pedophile.
- pedunculate — having a peduncle.
- pentadactyl — having five digits on each hand or foot.
- pentaploidy — the condition of being pentaploid
- pentlandite — a mineral, sulfide of nickel, occurring in the form of bronze-colored granular aggregates, found with pyrrhotite: the principal source of nickel.
- pericardial — of or relating to the pericardium.
- periodontal — of or relating to the periodontium.
- personal ad — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- persuadable — to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
- petrodollar — profits made from oil exports
- philanderer — (of a man) to make love with a woman one cannot or will not marry; carry on flirtations.
- phylloclade — a flattened stem or branch having the function of a leaf.
- piebaldness — having patches of black and white or of other colors; parti-colored.
- pineal body — (formerly) the pineal gland.
- placeholder — Mathematics, Logic. a symbol in an expression that may be replaced by the name of any element of the set.
- plagiarised — to take and use by plagiarism.
- plantigrade — walking on the whole sole of the foot, as humans, and bears.
- plasmodesma — any of many minute strands of cytoplasm that extend through plant cell walls and connect adjoining cells.
- plasticated — covered with a layer of plastic
- plateholder — a lightproof container for a photographic plate, loaded into the camera with the plate and having a slide that is removed before exposing.
- pleurodynia — pain in the chest or side.
- pneudraulic — of or relating to a mechanism involving both pneumatic and hydraulic action.