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10-letter words containing d, e, p, u

  • pleurodont — fused or attached to the inner edge of the jaw, as a tooth.
  • ploughhead — the draught iron of a plough
  • plow under — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
  • plugged in — closely connected; in touch with what is going on; informed; involved: He's one of the more plugged-in advisers at State House.
  • plugged-in — closely connected; in touch with what is going on; informed; involved: He's one of the more plugged-in advisers at State House.
  • plunderage — act of plundering; pillage.
  • plunderers — to rob of goods or valuables by open force, as in war, hostile raids, brigandage, etc.: to plunder a town.
  • pollutedly — in a polluted manner
  • polydeuces — Greek name of Pollux.
  • posturized — to posture; pose.
  • pound cake — a rich, sweet cake made originally with approximately a pound each of butter, sugar, and flour.
  • pound note — paper money: one pound sterling
  • powderpuff — a soft, feathery ball or pad, as of cotton or down, for applying powder to the skin.
  • praeludium — a prelude, now predominantly in a musical context
  • predacious — predatory; rapacious.
  • prediscuss — to consider or examine by argument, comment, etc.; talk over or write about, especially to explore solutions; debate: to discuss the proposed law on taxes.
  • prejudging — a preliminary round of judging, as in a contest where a certain number or percentage of the entrants are eliminated before the final judging.
  • prejudiced — an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason.
  • prejudices — an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason.
  • preludious — characteristic of a prelude
  • premundane — before the creation of the world; antemundane.
  • press stud — snap fastener.
  • presumedly — to take for granted, assume, or suppose: I presume you're tired after your drive.
  • pridefully — a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
  • procedural — procedural language
  • proctodeum — a depression in the ectoderm of the anal region of a young embryo, which develops into part of the anal canal.
  • producible — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
  • productile — capable of being lengthened out; extensile.
  • productive — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
  • profounder — penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge; having deep insight or understanding: a profound thinker.
  • pronounced — strongly marked: a pronounced fishy taste.
  • propounder — to put forward or offer for consideration, acceptance, or adoption; set forth; propose: to propound a theory.
  • prudential — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or resulting from prudence.
  • prudentius — Aurelius Clemens (ɔːˈriːlɪəs ˈklɛmɛnz). 348–410 ad, Latin Christian poet, born in Spain. His works include the allegory Psychomachia
  • pseudimago — (of insects) a form similar to the adult, but which is not a true adult
  • pseudo-tty — (operating system)   Berkeley Unix networking device which appears to an application program as an ordinary terminal but which is in fact connected via the network to a process running on a different host or a windowing system. Pseudo-ttys have a slave half and a control half. The slave tty (/dev/ttyp*) is the device that user programs use and the control tty (/dev/ptyp*) is used by daemons to talk to the net.
  • pseudoacid — a compound that is not an acid but which undergoes certain typical reactions of an acid
  • pseudoalum — any of a class of alums in which the usual monovalent metal of a true alum is replaced by a bivalent metal
  • pseudobulb — an enlarged, aboveground portion of stem, present in many tropical orchids, in which moisture is stored.
  • pseudocarp — accessory fruit.
  • pseudocide — the act of faking one’s own death
  • pseudocode — a program code unrelated to the hardware of a particular computer and requiring conversion to the code used by the computer before the program can be used.
  • pseudocoel — the body cavity of certain invertebrate metazoan animals between the body wall and the intestine, which is not lined with a mesodermal epithelium.
  • pseudogene — a genelike section of DNA that has no apparent function
  • pseudology — lying considered as an art.
  • pseudosalt — a compound whose formula is that of a salt, but that does not ionize in solution
  • pseudosuit — /soo'doh-s[y]oot"/ A suit wannabee; a hacker who has decided that he wants to be in management or administration and begins wearing ties, sport coats, and (shudder!) suits voluntarily. It's his funeral. See also lobotomy.
  • psyched up — psychologically prepared
  • publicised — to give publicity to; bring to public notice; advertise: They publicized the meeting as best they could.
  • publicized — to give publicity to; bring to public notice; advertise: They publicized the meeting as best they could.
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