10-letter words containing d, a, m, p, e
- pipe dream — unattainable wish
- pipe-dream — to indulge in pipe dreams; fantasize.
- pockmarked — Usually, pockmarks. scars or pits left by a pustule in smallpox or the like.
- postmarked — an official mark stamped on letters and other mail, serving as a cancellation of the postage stamp and indicating the place, date, and sometimes time of sending or receipt.
- praeludium — a prelude, now predominantly in a musical context
- preadamite — a person supposed to have existed before Adam.
- premedical — of or relating to studies in preparation for the formal study of medicine: a premedical course.
- premundane — before the creation of the world; antemundane.
- prestamped — stamped in advance
- programmed — a plan of action to accomplish a specified end: a school lunch program.
- psalmodize — to sing psalms
- pseudimago — (of insects) a form similar to the adult, but which is not a true adult
- pseudoalum — any of a class of alums in which the usual monovalent metal of a true alum is replaced by a bivalent metal
- pull media — (messaging) A model of media distribution were the bits of content have to be requested by the user, e.g. normal use of HTTP on the web. Opposite: "push media".
- push media — (messaging) A model of media distribution where items of content are sent to the user (viewer, listener, etc.) in a sequence, and at a rate, determined by a server to which the user has connected. This contrasts with pull media where the user requests each item individually. Push media usually entail some notion of a "channel" which the user selects and which delivers a particular kind of content. Broadcast television is (for the most part) the prototypical example of push media: you turn on the TV set, select a channel and shows and commercials stream out until you turn the set off. By contrast, the web is (mostly) the prototypical example of pull media: each "page", each bit of content, comes to the user only if he requests it; put down the keyboard and the mouse, and everything stops. At the time of writing (April 1997), much effort is being put into blurring the line between push media and pull media. Most of this is aimed at bringing more push media to the Internet, mainly as a way to disseminate advertising, since telling people about products they didn't know they wanted is very difficult in a strict pull media model. These emergent forms of push media are generally variations on targeted advertising mixed in with bits of useful content. "At home on your computer, the same system will run soothing screensavers underneath regular news flashes, all while keeping track, in one corner, of press releases from companies whose stocks you own. With frequent commercial messages, of course." (Wired, March 1997, page 12). As part of the eternal desire to apply a fun new words to boring old things, "push" is occasionally used to mean nothing more than email spam.
- reprimands — a severe reproof or rebuke, especially a formal one by a person in authority.
- speed ramp — a raised band across a road, designed to make motorists reduce their speed, esp in built-up areas
- spermaduct — a spermatic passage found in male animals
- spermatoid — resembling sperm.
- stampeders — a sudden, frenzied rush or headlong flight of a herd of frightened animals, especially cattle or horses.
- steamed up — obscured by vapour
- tepidarium — a warm room in Roman baths
- torpedoman — a petty officer or warrant officer responsible for the maintenance, use, and repair of underwater weapons and equipment.
- un-made-up — not wearing make-up
- uncompared — to examine (two or more objects, ideas, people, etc.) in order to note similarities and differences: to compare two pieces of cloth; to compare the governments of two nations.
- undampened — to make damp; moisten: to dampen a sponge.
- unexampled — unprecedented; unparalleled; unlike anything previously known: unexampled kindness; unexampled depravity.
- unhampered — to hold back; hinder; impede: A steady rain hampered the progress of the work.
- unimpacted — tightly or immovably wedged in.
- unimpaired — weakened, diminished, or damaged: impaired hearing; to rebuild an impaired bridge.
- unimparted — not communicated (to another person)
- unpampered — not pampered
- untampered — to meddle, especially for the purpose of altering, damaging, or misusing (usually followed by with): Someone has been tampering with the lock.
- untrampled — to tread or step heavily and noisily; stamp.
- white damp — a poisonous coal-mine gas composed chiefly of carbon monoxide.