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11-letter words containing d, e, a, s

  • old persian — an ancient West Iranian language attested by cuneiform inscriptions. Abbreviation: OPers.
  • ordainments — Plural form of ordainment.
  • osteodermal — characterized by osteoderms
  • ostracoderm — any of several extinct jawless fishes of the Ordovician, Silurian, and Devonian periods, having the body enclosed in an armor of bony plates.
  • outdistance — to leave behind, as in running; outstrip: The winning horse outdistanced the second-place winner by five lengths.
  • outwardness — (uncountable) The quality of being outward.
  • overdosages — Plural form of overdosage.
  • overstaffed — If you say that a place is overstaffed, you think there are more people working there than is necessary.
  • oxeye daisy — a composite plant, Chrysanthemum leucanthemum, having flowers with white rays and a yellow disk.
  • paediatrics — Paediatrics is the area of medicine that is concerned with the treatment of children's illnesses.
  • page design — the way a page is organized and presented
  • palm desert — a town in S California, near Palm Springs.
  • parade rest — a position assumed by a soldier or sailor in which the feet are 12 inches (30.48 cm) apart, the hands are clasped behind the back, and the head is held motionless and facing forward.
  • parascender — a person who takes part in parascending
  • parasuicide — the deliberate infliction of injury on oneself or the taking of a drug overdose as an attempt at suicide which may not be intended to be successful
  • parchedness — the state or characteristic of being parched
  • party dress — a dress to wear to a party
  • pas de chat — a jump of one foot over the other.
  • pas de cote — a two-track.
  • pas de deux — a dance by two persons.
  • pass degree — (in English universities) an ordinary bachelor's degree conferred without honors.
  • 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.
  • passed pawn — a pawn with no opposing pawn either on an adjacent file or on its own file.
  • passiontide — the two-week period from Passion Sunday to Holy Saturday.
  • 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.
  • pasty-faced — having a pale, unhealthy, sallow complexion: an awkward, pasty-faced youth.
  • pay dispute — a disagreement between workers and employers concerning salary
  • pear-shaped — having the shape of a pear; tapering near the top and bulging toward the base or bottom: a pear-shaped vase.
  • pebble dash — an exterior wall finish composed of mortar against which, while still wet, small pebbles have been thrown and pressed in.
  • pedagoguish — resembling or reminiscent of a pedagogue
  • pedanticise — to be pedantic
  • pedanticism — pedantry.
  • pedestalled — an architectural support for a column, statue, vase, or the like.
  • pedobaptism — the baptism of infants.
  • pedobaptist — a person who advocates or practices pedobaptism.
  • pentandrous — of or pertaining to the order of plants Pentandria, characterized by having five stamens
  • pentastomid — tongue worm.
  • 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.
  • phase speed — the speed at which the phase of a wave is propagated, the product of the frequency times the wavelength. This is the quantity that is determined by methods using interference. In a dispersive medium it differs from the group speed
  • phosphatide — phospholipid.
  • photostated — a camera for making facsimile copies of documents, drawings, etc., in the form of paper negatives on which the positions of lines, objects, etc., in the originals are maintained.
  • piebaldness — having patches of black and white or of other colors; parti-colored.
  • plagiarised — to take and use by plagiarism.
  • 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
  • pond-skater — any of various heteropterous insects of the family Gerrididae, esp Gerris lacustris (common pond-skater), having a slender hairy body and long hairy legs with which they skim about on the surface of ponds
  • postal code — British. postcode.
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