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10-letter words containing d, i, a, p

  • lapidation — to pelt with stones.
  • lapidified — Simple past tense and past participle of lapidify.
  • lapidifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lapidify.
  • lead paint — paint containing lead
  • leadership — the position or function of a leader, a person who guides or directs a group: He managed to maintain his leadership of the party despite heavy opposition. Synonyms: administration, management, directorship, control, governorship, stewardship, hegemony.
  • lipidaemia — Alternative form of lipidemia.
  • lipreading — the reading or understanding, as by a deaf person, of spoken words from the movements of another's lips without hearing the sounds made.
  • lisp-linda — P. Dourish, U Edinburgh 1988.
  • loperamide — a substance, C 29 H 33 ClN 2 O 2 , used in the treatment of diarrhea.
  • madreporic — Resembling, or pertaining to, the genus Madrepora.
  • maxilliped — one member of the three pairs of appendages situated immediately behind the maxillae of crustaceans.
  • media hype — intensive or exaggerated publicity in the mass media
  • mediascape — Communications media as a whole.
  • mediaspeak — The jargon used by the media.
  • mercaptide — a metallic salt of a mercaptan.
  • metapodial — (anatomy, zoology) Of or pertaining to the human metacarpal bones (between the wrist and fingers) or the metatarsal bones (between the ankle and toes); of or pertaining to the equivalent bones in animals.
  • midshipman — a student, as at the U.S. Naval Academy, in training for commission as ensign in the Navy or second lieutenant in the Marine Corps. Compare cadet (def 2).
  • mindscapes — Plural form of mindscape.
  • mis-shaped — to shape badly or wrongly; deform.
  • misapplied — mistakenly applied; used wrongly.
  • misplanned — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
  • mispleaded — Simple past tense and past participle of misplead.
  • modula-3pi — Machine-independent intermediate language for compilation of Modula-3*. "Modula-3pi Language Definition", E.A. Heinz, TR, U Karlsruhe 1993.
  • monopodial — (botany) Having a monopodium or a single and continuous axis, as a birch twig or a cornstalk.
  • mudcapping — the process or act of blasting a rock surface with explosives
  • multipaned — having or comprising more than one pane, esp of glass
  • named pipe — (operating system)   A Unix pipe with a filename created using the "mknod" command. Named pipes allow unrelated processes to communicate with each other whereas the normal (un-named) kind can only be used by processes which are parent and child or siblings (forked from the same parent).
  • nephridial — Of or pertaining to a nephridium.
  • neuropodia — Plural form of neuropodium.
  • octaploidy — the fact of having or containing eight groups or sets of chromosomes
  • pack drill — a military punishment by which the offender is made to march about carrying a full pack of equipment
  • paddington — a former residential borough of Greater London, England, now part of Westminster.
  • paddlefish — a large ganoid fish, Polyodon spathula, of the Mississippi River and its larger tributaries, having a long, flat, paddlelike snout.
  • paderewski — Ignace [French ee-nyas] /French iˈnyas/ (Show IPA), or Ignacy Jan [Polish ig-nah-tsi yahn] /Polish ɪgˈnɑ tsɪ yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1860–1941, Polish pianist, composer, patriot, and statesman.
  • padma shri — (in India) an award for distinguished service in any field
  • paedeutics — the study of teaching
  • paedophile — an adult who is sexually attracted to young children.
  • paedotribe — (in ancient Greece) a gymnastics teacher
  • palindrome — 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.
  • palisander — Brazilian rosewood.
  • palletized — to place (materials) upon pallets for handling or moving.
  • palmatifid — displaying palmate characteristics
  • pandectist — a German law student who followed the Pandects of Justinian
  • pandemonic — wild uproar or unrestrained disorder; tumult or chaos.
  • pandermite — a white, marble-like mineral
  • panellized — made in sections for quick assembly
  • pantomimed — the art or technique of conveying emotions, actions, feelings, etc., by gestures without speech.
  • pantrymaid — a domestic maid whose duties concern the pantry
  • pantsuited — wearing a pantsuit
  • panty raid — a prankish raid by male college students on the living quarters of female students to steal panties as trophies.
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