10-letter words containing d, i, a, p
- providable — to make available; furnish: to provide employees with various benefits.
- prudential — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or resulting from prudence.
- psalmodize — to sing psalms
- pseudimago — (of insects) a form similar to the adult, but which is not a true adult
- pseudoacid — a compound that is not an acid but which undergoes certain typical reactions of an acid
- 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 aside — shove to one side
- 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
- pyranoside — a glycoside containing a pyran ring structure.
- quadriceps — a large muscle in front of the thigh, the action of which extends the leg or bends the hip joint.
- quadripara — A female which has borne four offspring.
- quadriplex — A building divided into four self-contained residences.
- quadripole — an electric circuit with two input and two output terminals
- radial-ply — (of a motor tyre) having the fabric cords in the outer casing running radially to enable the sidewalls to be flexible
- radio play — a play written for broadcasting on radio
- radiograph — Also called shadowgraph. a photographic image produced by the action of x-rays or nuclear radiation.
- radiopager — a small radio receiver fitted with a buzzer to alert a person to telephone their home, office, etc, to receive a message
- radiopaque — opaque to radiation; visible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy (opposed to radiotransparent).
- radiophare — a radiotelegraphic station used by vessels to determine their positions; radio beacon.
- radiophone — a radiotelephone.
- radiophoto — an image created by radio waves rather than light
- radioscope — an instrument, such as a fluoroscope, capable of detecting radiant energy
- radioscopy — the examination of objects opaque to light by means of another form of radiation, usually x-rays.
- rapid city — a city in SW South Dakota.
- rapid-fire — characterized by, delivered, or occurring in rapid succession: rapid-fire questions; rapid-fire events.
- rapidwrite — (language, tool) A method for translating set of abbreviations into the much more verbose COBOL code.
- rawalpindi — a city in N Pakistan: former provisional capital.
- readership — the people who read or are thought to read a particular book, newspaper, magazine, etc.: The periodical has a dwindling readership.
- readoption — the adoption of something or someone again
- redispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- reply-paid — having the cost of sending a reply (of a letter, etc) prepaid by the sender
- reprimands — a severe reproof or rebuke, especially a formal one by a person in authority.
- repudiable — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
- rhapsodist — a person who rhapsodizes.
- rhapsodize — to talk with extravagant enthusiasm.
- rice paddy — a field planted with rice
- rose aphid — a dark green aphid, Macrosiphum rosae, that feeds on roses and related plants.
- sand viper — hognose snake.
- scindapsus — any plant of the tropical Asiatic climbing genus Scindapsus, typically stem rooting, esp S. aureus and S. pictus, grown as greenhouse or house plants for their leathery heart-shaped variegated leaves: family Araceae
- scorpaenid — belonging or pertaining to the Scorpaenidae, a family of marine fishes with spiny fins, including the rockfishes, scorpionfishes, and lionfishes.
- sea spider — any member of the arthropod class Pycnogonida, marine invertebrates with eight long walking legs attached to a small body consisting of a cephalothorax and vestigial abdomen.
- septicidal — (of a capsule) dehiscing lengthwise along a septum.
- shadow pin — a vertical pin set in an azimuth instrument or at the center of a compass card, indicating by the direction of its shadow the azimuth of the sun.
- ship-bread — hardtack.
- shiplapped — of, related to, or resembling shiplap
- side plate — a small plate used for bread or other accompaniments to a meal
- spadiceous — Botany. of the nature of a spadix. bearing a spadix.
- spasmodist — a person who is spasmodic, especially in style, as a writer, painter, etc.