11-letter words containing d, a, u
- parlourmaid — In former times, a parlourmaid was a female servant in a private house whose job involved serving people at table.
- parodontium — periodontium.
- pas de deux — a dance by two persons.
- pass around — distribute, circulate
- passo fundo — a city in S Brazil.
- pasteurised — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
- pasteurized — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
- 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.
- pay dispute — a disagreement between workers and employers concerning salary
- pedagoguery — a teacher; schoolteacher.
- pedagoguish — resembling or reminiscent of a pedagogue
- pediculated — having a stalk or stalks
- pedunculate — having a peduncle.
- peng dehuai — 1898–1974, Chinese Communist military leader: defense minister 1954–59.
- pentandrous — of or pertaining to the order of plants Pentandria, characterized by having five stamens
- perduration — the act of lasting forever or enduring continually; the capacity to endure indefinitely
- pericardium — the membranous sac enclosing the heart.
- perpetuated — to make perpetual.
- persuadable — to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
- piss around — If you say that someone pisses around or pisses about, you mean they waste a lot of time doing unimportant things.
- plaid cymru — the Welsh nationalist party
- play around — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- pleurodynia — pain in the chest or side.
- pneudraulic — of or relating to a mechanism involving both pneumatic and hydraulic action.
- pneumathode — a band or pore of aerating tissue, esp along the stipes of ferns
- point guard — Basketball. the guard who directs the team's offense from the point.
- poke around — to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.
- polyandrous — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or practicing polyandry; polyandric.
- pompadoured — styled in a pompadour
- pouched rat — pocket gopher.
- preaudience — the right to be given an audience before other people; the privilege of being the first to be heard
- prejudicant — judging beforehand
- prejudicate — to judge beforehand
- prejudicial — causing prejudice or disadvantage; detrimental.
- proctodaeum — proctodeum.
- produceable — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- promulgated — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- prosauropod — a herbivorous dinosaur of the Triassic and early Jurassic periods
- protandrous — (of hermaphrodite or monoecious plants) maturing the anthers before the stigma
- prudhoe bay — an inlet of the Beaufort Sea, N of Alaska: large oil and gas fields.
- pseudoedema — effusion of serous fluid into the interstices of cells in tissue spaces or into body cavities.
- pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
- pseudologia — a psychological condition in which a patient tells elaborate, false stories believing them to be true
- pseudomonad — any of various bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas
- pseudomonas — any of several rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas, certain species of which are pathogenic for plants and animals.
- pseudopodal — (of protozoans) belonging to the former division Pseudopoda
- pseudopodia — pseudopod.
- pulse radar — a radar system using pulse modulation
- pumpkinhead — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
- punctulated — bearing small spots or dots