11-letter words containing d, i, p, a, n
- drop a line — send a message
- dues-paying — gaining experience, especially by hard and often unpleasant or uncongenial work: He spent his dues-paying years as a cocktail pianist.
- duplicating — Present participle of duplicate.
- duplication — an act or instance of duplicating.
- dyspareunia — painful coitus.
- emancipated — Free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberated.
- encephaloid — resembling the brain or brain matter
- endoplasmic — (cytology) of, or relating to endoplasm.
- epaminondas — ?418–362 bc, Greek Theban statesman and general: defeated the Spartans at Leuctra (371) and Mantinea (362) and restored power in Greece to Thebes
- epoxidation — (organic chemistry) Any reaction that converts a compound (especially an alkene) into an epoxide.
- flood plain — a nearly flat plain along the course of a stream or river that is naturally subject to flooding.
- floodplains — Plural form of floodplain.
- garden pink — the plant Dianthus plumarius
- giant panda — panda (def 1).
- glide plane — a symmetry element of a space group such that a reflection of the lattice with respect to the plane and a translation of the lattice parallel to the plane bring the lattice back to its original position.
- grade point — Education. a numerical equivalent to a received letter grade, usually 0 for F, 1 for D, 2 for C, 3 for B, and 4 for A, that is multiplied by the number of credits for the course: used to compute a grade point average.
- grand piano — a piano having the frame supported horizontally on three legs.
- hand-picked — to pick by hand.
- handicapped — Sometimes Offensive. physically or mentally disabled.
- handicapper — Horse Racing. a racetrack official or employee who assigns the weight a horse must carry in a race. a person employed, as by a newspaper, to make predictions on the outcomes of horse races.
- handpicking — to pick by hand.
- handsprings — Plural form of handspring.
- hardscaping — Hardscape.
- heating pad — a flexible fabric-covered pad containing insulated electrical heating elements for applying heat especially to the body.
- heparinized — Simple past tense and past participle of heparinize.
- hopping mad — working energetically; busily engaged: He kept the staff hopping in order to get the report finished.
- hydnocarpic — of or relating to hydnocarpic acid
- hyperdorian — of or related to the mode above the Dorian mode in ancient Greek music
- hyperlydian — relating to the highest scale or mode in ancient Greek music
- hypnopaedia — Teaching (or learning) by subconscious means.
- hypodynamia — diminished strength; adynamia.
- hypodynamic — diminished strength; adynamia.
- ideal point — the point at infinity in projective geometry at which parallel lines intersect.
- impassioned — filled with intense feeling or passion; passionate; ardent.
- impedimenta — Equipment for an activity or expedition, especially when considered as bulky or an encumbrance.
- impregnated — to make pregnant; get with child or young.
- in jeopardy — in danger, at risk
- inadaptable — lacking the ability to adapt
- incompassed — Simple past tense and past participle of incompass.
- index plate — a plate perforated with rows of different numbers of equally spaced holes as a guide for indexing work.
- india paper — a fine, thin, opaque paper made in Asia, used chiefly in the production of thin-paper editions and for impressions of engravings.
- india print — a plain-weave cotton fabric from India with brillantly colored block-print designs, or a fabric resembling this.
- indian hemp — a North American dogbane, Apocynum cannabinum, having erect clusters of greenish-white flowers and a root with laxative and emetic properties.
- indian pipe — a leafless, pearly white, saprophytic plant, Monotropa uniflora, of North America and Asia, having a solitary white flower and resembling a tobacco pipe.
- indian poke — false hellebore.
- induplicate — folded or rolled inward: said of the parts of the calyx or corolla when the edges are bent abruptly toward the axis, or of leaves in vernation when the edges are rolled inward and then arranged about the axis without overlapping.
- inspissated — Simple past tense and past participle of inspissate.
- interspaced — Simple past tense and past participle of interspace.
- jackpudding — An amusing person who acts foolishly in order to entertain people.
- jawdropping — Alternative form of jaw-dropping.