10-letter words containing d, i, a, p
- pindo palm — a feather palm, Butia capitata, of Brazil, having long, arching leaves, grayish beneath, and small, egg-shaped fruit.
- pinnatifid — (of a leaf) pinnately cleft, with clefts reaching halfway or more to the midrib.
- pinnatiped — having lobate feet.
- pinnigrade — moving by means of finlike parts or flippers, as the seals and walruses.
- pipe dream — unattainable wish
- pipe-dream — to indulge in pipe dreams; fantasize.
- pirandello — Luigi [loo-ee-jee] /luˈi dʒi/ (Show IPA), 1867–1936, Italian dramatist, novelist, and poet: Nobel prize 1934.
- pitch-dark — dark or black as pitch: a pitch-dark night.
- pixellated — in computer graphics and digital photography, to cause (an image) to break up into pixels, as by overenlarging the image: When enlarging a photograph, first increase the resolution to avoid pixelating it.
- placarding — a paperboard sign or notice, as one posted in a public place or carried by a demonstrator or picketer.
- placidness — pleasantly calm or peaceful; unruffled; tranquil; serenely quiet or undisturbed: placid waters.
- plain-laid — noting a rope laid right-handed with three left-handed strands, without a heart; hawser-laid.
- plainfield — a city in N New Jersey.
- planetwide — relating to or affecting a whole planet
- plasmodial — Biology. an ameboid, multinucleate mass or sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of organisms, as of myxomycetes or slime molds.
- plasmodium — Biology. an ameboid, multinucleate mass or sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of organisms, as of myxomycetes or slime molds.
- plastidial — relating to a plastid
- plastidule — a small particle of protoplasm
- platinated — to platinize.
- plauditory — approving or laudatory
- play cupid — If you say that someone is playing cupid, you mean that they are trying to bring two people together to start a romantic relationship.
- play dirty — use unfair or dishonest tactics
- pleadingly — the act of a person who pleads.
- podcasting — a digital audio or video file or recording, usually part of a themed series, that can be downloaded from a website to a media player or computer: Download or subscribe to daily, one-hour podcasts of our radio show.
- podiatrist — a person qualified to diagnose and treat foot disorders.
- polyandric — polyandrous.
- polydipsia — excessive thirst.
- polydontia — the condition of having more than the normal number of teeth.
- pond snail — a general term for the freshwater snails: often specifically for the great pond snail (Limnaea stagnalis) and others of that genus. L. truncatula is a host of the liver fluke
- ponytailed — having a ponytail
- praeludium — a prelude, now predominantly in a musical context
- pranidhana — (in Mahayana Buddhism) the resolution not to enter nirvana until all beings are ready to enter.
- pre-advice — an opinion or recommendation offered as a guide to action, conduct, etc.: I shall act on your advice.
- pre-advise — to give counsel to; offer an opinion or suggestion as worth following: I advise you to be cautious.
- preadamite — a person supposed to have existed before Adam.
- predacious — predatory; rapacious.
- predicable — that may be predicated or affirmed; assertable.
- predicated — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
- predicator — the verbal element of a clause or sentence.
- preholiday — relating to the period before a holiday
- premedical — of or relating to studies in preparation for the formal study of medicine: a premedical course.
- prereading — of or relating to the period before reading a text, book, etc
- primordial — constituting a beginning; giving origin to something derived or developed; original; elementary: primordial forms of life.
- prismatoid — a polyhedron having its vertices lying on two parallel planes.
- privatized — (of the production of goods or services) transferred from the public sector of an economy into private ownership and operation
- prize draw — raffle in which sth is won
- pro-indian — Also called American Indian, Amerind, Amerindian, Native American. a member of the aboriginal people of America or of any of the aboriginal North or South American stocks, usually excluding the Eskimos.
- prodigally — wastefully or recklessly extravagant: prodigal expenditure.
- prolicidal — characteristic of prolicide
- proplastid — a plant cell organelle that a plastid develops from