11-letter words containing d, a, m, p
- madreporian — Resembling, or pertaining to, the genus Madrepora.
- madreporite — a sievelike plate in certain echinoderms, through which water passes into the vascular system.
- maiden pink — a turf-forming plant, Dianthus deltoides , found from western Europe to eastern Asia, having red or pink flowers.
- mal du pays — homesickness.
- maladaptive — of, relating to, or characterized by maladaptation or incomplete, inadequate, or faulty adaptation: The maladaptive behavior of isolated children was difficult to change.
- manipulated — Simple past tense and past participle of manipulate.
- map-reading — the act or skill of interpreting the significance of a geographical map
- maxillipeds — Plural form of maxilliped.
- media group — an association of companies involved with the means of mass communication
- metaphrased — Translated literally.
- metapodials — Plural form of metapodial.
- middle path — the conduct of life by a religious person in such a way as to avoid the extremes of luxury and asceticism.
- mis-phrased — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
- mishappened — Simple past tense and past participle of mishappen.
- mispersuade — to persuade wrongly
- mispleading — a mistake in pleading, as a misjoinder of parties or a misstatement of a cause of action.
- 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.
- muck-up day — the last day of school before the annual examinations, marked by practical jokes and other student pranks
- mustard pot — a small pot, of glass, silver, etc, placed on the table to serve mustard
- namedropper — A person who name-drops.
- nudist camp — a resort where nudism is practiced
- numeric pad — a separate section on some computer keyboards, grouping together numeric keys and those for mathematical or other special functions in an arrangement like that of a calculator.
- ophidiarium — an enclosure for snakes, adapted to their normal living conditions
- pachydermal — having the characteristics of a pachyderm
- pachydermia — an abnormal thickening of the skin
- pachydermic — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
- 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
- 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.
- palm desert — a town in S California, near Palm Springs.
- palm reader — fortune teller who interprets hand lines
- palm sunday — the Sunday before Easter, celebrated in commemoration of Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem.
- palmer land — the southern part of the Antarctic Peninsula.
- pandemonian — a noisy and disorderly person
- pandemonium — wild uproar or unrestrained disorder; tumult or chaos.
- paramastoid — of or relating to the part of the skull next to the mastoid process
- paramedical — related to the medical profession in a secondary or supplementary capacity.
- parlourmaid — In former times, a parlourmaid was a female servant in a private house whose job involved serving people at table.
- parodontium — periodontium.
- peak demand — business: strong sales
- pedanticism — pedantry.
- pedobaptism — the baptism of infants.
- pentamidine — an antiprotozoal substance, C 1 9 H 2 4 N 4 O 2 , used in the treatment of leishmaniasis, trypanosomiasis, and pneumonia due to Pneumocystis carinii.
- pentastomid — tongue worm.
- pericardium — the membranous sac enclosing the heart.
- plaid cymru — the Welsh nationalist party