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10-letter words containing d, a, m, p, i

  • lipidaemia — Alternative form of lipidemia.
  • loperamide — a substance, C 29 H 33 ClN 2 O 2 , used in the treatment of diarrhea.
  • madreporic — Resembling, or pertaining to, the genus Madrepora.
  • maxilliped — one member of the three pairs of appendages situated immediately behind the maxillae of crustaceans.
  • media hype — intensive or exaggerated publicity in the mass media
  • mediascape — Communications media as a whole.
  • mediaspeak — The jargon used by the media.
  • mercaptide — a metallic salt of a mercaptan.
  • metapodial — (anatomy, zoology) Of or pertaining to the human metacarpal bones (between the wrist and fingers) or the metatarsal bones (between the ankle and toes); of or pertaining to the equivalent bones in animals.
  • midshipman — a student, as at the U.S. Naval Academy, in training for commission as ensign in the Navy or second lieutenant in the Marine Corps. Compare cadet (def 2).
  • mindscapes — Plural form of mindscape.
  • mis-shaped — to shape badly or wrongly; deform.
  • misapplied — mistakenly applied; used wrongly.
  • misplanned — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
  • mispleaded — Simple past tense and past participle of misplead.
  • modula-3pi — Machine-independent intermediate language for compilation of Modula-3*. "Modula-3pi Language Definition", E.A. Heinz, TR, U Karlsruhe 1993.
  • monopodial — (botany) Having a monopodium or a single and continuous axis, as a birch twig or a cornstalk.
  • mudcapping — the process or act of blasting a rock surface with explosives
  • multipaned — having or comprising more than one pane, esp of glass
  • named pipe — (operating system)   A Unix pipe with a filename created using the "mknod" command. Named pipes allow unrelated processes to communicate with each other whereas the normal (un-named) kind can only be used by processes which are parent and child or siblings (forked from the same parent).
  • padma shri — (in India) an award for distinguished service in any field
  • palindrome — 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.
  • palmatifid — displaying palmate characteristics
  • pandemonic — wild uproar or unrestrained disorder; tumult or chaos.
  • pandermite — a white, marble-like mineral
  • pantomimed — the art or technique of conveying emotions, actions, feelings, etc., by gestures without speech.
  • pantrymaid — a domestic maid whose duties concern the pantry
  • parapodium — one of the unjointed rudimentary limbs or processes of locomotion of many worms, as annelids.
  • parlormaid — a maid who takes care of a parlor, answers the door, waits on guests, etc.
  • parmenides — flourished c450 b.c, Greek Eleatic philosopher.
  • pedagogism — the principles, manner, method, or characteristics of pedagogues.
  • pindo palm — a feather palm, Butia capitata, of Brazil, having long, arching leaves, grayish beneath, and small, egg-shaped fruit.
  • pipe dream — unattainable wish
  • pipe-dream — to indulge in pipe dreams; fantasize.
  • plasmodial — Biology. an ameboid, multinucleate mass or sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of organisms, as of myxomycetes or slime molds.
  • plasmodium — Biology. an ameboid, multinucleate mass or sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of organisms, as of myxomycetes or slime molds.
  • 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.
  • primordial — constituting a beginning; giving origin to something derived or developed; original; elementary: primordial forms of life.
  • prismatoid — a polyhedron having its vertices lying on two parallel planes.
  • psalmodize — to sing psalms
  • pseudimago — (of insects) a form similar to the adult, but which is not a true adult
  • 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.
  • pyramidion — a miniature pyramid, as at the apex of an obelisk.
  • pyramidist — an expert in the structure and history of the Egyptian pyramids
  • reprimands — a severe reproof or rebuke, especially a formal one by a person in authority.
  • spasmodist — a person who is spasmodic, especially in style, as a writer, painter, etc.
  • spermatoid — resembling sperm.
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