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

  • pleiades — any of the Pleiades.
  • podalgia — pain in the foot.
  • podiatry — the care of the human foot, especially the diagnosis and treatment of foot disorders.
  • polaroid — instant photograph
  • poloidal — relating to a type of magnetic field
  • polyacid — having more than one replaceable hydrogen atom.
  • polyadic — (of a relation, operation, etc) having several argument places, as … moves … from … to …, which might be represented as Mpox1y1z1t1x2y2z2t2 where p names a person, o an object, and each t a time, and each <x,y,z> the coordinates of a place
  • postpaid — envelope, card: prepaid
  • potidaea — a city on the Chalcidice Peninsula, whose revolt against Athens in 432 b.c. was one of the causes of the Peloponnesian War.
  • praedial — of, relating to, or consisting of land or its products; real; landed.
  • prandial — of or relating to a meal, especially dinner.
  • pre-aids — (not in technical use) AIDS-related complex.
  • preadmit — to allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to: to admit a student to college.
  • preaudit — an examination of vouchers, contracts, etc., in order to substantiate a transaction or a series of transactions before they are paid for and recorded.
  • preradio — before the invention of radio
  • prichard — a city in S Alabama.
  • prodigal — wastefully or recklessly extravagant: prodigal expenditure.
  • pycnidia — (in certain ascomycetes and fungi imperfecti) a globose or flask-shaped fruiting body bearing conidia on conidiophores.
  • pyinkado — a leguminous tree, Xylia xylocarpa (or dolabriformis), native to India and Myanmar
  • pyramids — Architecture. (in ancient Egypt) a quadrilateral masonry mass having smooth, steeply sloping sides meeting at an apex, used as a tomb. (in ancient Egypt and pre-Columbian Central America) a quadrilateral masonry mass, stepped and sharply sloping, used as a tomb or a platform for a temple.
  • pyranoid — relating to the structure of a pyranose
  • raindrop — a drop of rain.
  • rapidcad — (processor)   A specially packaged Intel 486DX and a dummy floating point unit (FPU) designed as pin-compatible replacements for an Intel 80386 processor and 80387 FPU. Since the DX variant has a working on-chip FPU, a dummy FPU package is supplied to go in the 387 FPU socket.
  • rapidity — a rapid state or quality; quickness; celerity.
  • rapiered — wearing or carrying a rapier
  • repaired — to restore to a good or sound condition after decay or damage; mend: to repair a motor.
  • sandpile — a pile of sand, esp one for children to play on
  • satinpod — either of two European plants belonging to the genus Lunaria, of the mustard family, L. annua or L. rediviva, cultivated for their shiny flowers and large, round, flat, satiny pods.
  • scaphoid — boat-shaped; navicular.
  • sepaloid — resembling a sepal.
  • sephardi — a Jew of Spanish, Portuguese, or North African descent
  • shin pad — A shin pad is a thick piece of material that you wear inside your socks to protect the lower part of your leg when you are playing a game such as football or rugby.
  • shipload — a full load for a ship.
  • shipyard — a yard or enclosure in which ships are built or repaired.
  • sidepath — a minor path
  • soapdish — a shallow container for a bar of soap, used in a bathroom
  • spadille — the highest trump in certain card games, as the queen of clubs in omber.
  • spalding — Albert, 1888–1953, U.S. violinist.
  • spaniard — a native or inhabitant of Spain.
  • spavined — suffering from or affected with spavin.
  • spirated — twisted in a spiral
  • spithead — a roadstead off the S coast of England between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight.
  • spondaic — of or relating to a spondee.
  • sporadic — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
  • sprained — (of a joint) having been injured by a sudden twisting or wrenching of its ligaments
  • sympodia — an axis or stem that simulates a simple stem but is made up of the bases of a number of axes that arise successively as branches, one from another, as in the grapevine.
  • synapsid — a fossil reptile (of the subclass Synapsida) that exhibits some mammal-like characteristics of the skull
  • tapiroid — of or resembling a tapir
  • tarsiped — a generic term for marsupials of the genus Tarsipes
  • tripedal — having three feet.
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