10-letter words containing d, i, p, a, n
- interplead — to litigate with each other in order to determine which of two parties is the rightful claimant against a third party.
- iproniazid — a compound, C 9 H 13 N 3 O, used in the treatment of mental depression and tuberculosis.
- island-hop — to travel from island to island, especially to visit a series of islands in the same chain or area.
- jeoparding — Present participle of jeopard.
- kidnappers — Plural form of kidnapper.
- kidnapping — to steal, carry off, or abduct by force or fraud, especially for use as a hostage or to extract ransom.
- lapidarian — Also, lapidist [lap-i-dist] /ˈlæp ɪ dɪst/ (Show IPA). a worker who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones.
- lapidation — to pelt with stones.
- lead paint — paint containing lead
- 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.
- 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.
- misplanned — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- 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.
- paddington — a former residential borough of Greater London, England, now part of Westminster.
- 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.
- 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.
- paradisean — of the genus Paradisaea (birds of paradise)
- parmenides — flourished c450 b.c, Greek Eleatic philosopher.
- pasquinade — a satire or lampoon, especially one posted in a public place.
- pathfinder — a historical novel (1840) by James Fenimore Cooper.
- patronised — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
- pedantical — ostentatious in one's learning.
- pedestrian — a person who goes or travels on foot; walker.
- pedodontia — the branch of dentistry dealing with the care and treatment of children's teeth.
- pentaploid — having a chromosome number that is five times the haploid number.
- pentapodic — (of a poetic line or verse) having five metrical feet
- peridental — periodontal.
- peridinian — a member of the genus Peridinium
- phagedenic — a severe, destructive, eroding ulcer.
- phalloidin — a peptide toxin, responsible for the toxicity of the death cap mushroom, Amanita phalloides
- piano duet — a musical composition for two pianists playing two pianos or together at one piano.
- pig island — New Zealand
- pin-tailed — having a tapered tail with long, pointed central feathers.
- pinacoidal — belonging or relating to a pinacoid
- pindo palm — a feather palm, Butia capitata, of Brazil, having long, arching leaves, grayish beneath, and small, egg-shaped fruit.