9-letter words containing d, i, p, e, t, a
- paediatry — the branch of medical science concerned with children and their diseases
- paginated — to indicate the sequence of pages in (a book, manuscript, etc.) by placing numbers or other characters on each leaf; to number the pages of.
- partridge — any of several Old World gallinaceous game birds of the subfamily Perdicinae, especially Perdix perdix.
- patinated — to cover or encrust with a patina.
- patriated — to transfer (legislation) to the authority of an autonomous country from its previous mother country.
- patricide — the act of killing one's own father.
- pedantism — pedantry.
- pedantize — to act as a pedant; to make pedantic comments
- pedatifid — (of a plant leaf) pedately divided, with the divisions less deep than in a pedate leaf
- pediatric — the branch of medicine concerned with the development, care, and diseases of babies and children.
- peptidase — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of peptides or peptones to amino acids.
- periodate — a salt of a periodic acid, as sodium periodate, Na 2 H 3 IO 6 .
- pertained — to have reference or relation; relate: documents pertaining to the lawsuit.
- pintadera — a decorative stamp, usually made of clay, found in the Neolithic of the E Mediterranean and in many American cultures
- pintailed — having a tapered tail
- pixelated — 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.
- pixilated — slightly eccentric or mentally disordered.
- planetoid — an asteroid.
- platitude — a flat, dull, or trite remark, especially one uttered as if it were fresh or profound.
- posteriad — toward the posterior; posteriorly.
- practiced — skilled or expert; proficient through practice or experience: a practiced hand at politics.
- practised — skilled or expert; proficient through practice or experience: a practiced hand at politics.
- pre-audit — an examination of vouchers, contracts, etc., in order to substantiate a transaction or a series of transactions before they are paid for and recorded.
- predacity — predatory; rapacious.
- predation — depredation; plundering.
- predatism — the state of living as a predator or by predation.
- predicant — preaching: a predicant religious order.
- predicate — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
- predikant — a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, esp in South Africa
- premiated — to grant a prize or an award to.
- printhead — the printing element, as a daisy wheel or thimble, on a computer printer.
- put aside — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- redtapism — excessive formality and routine required before official action can be taken.
- repudiate — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
- rhipidate — shaped like a fan
- spermatid — Cell Biology. one of the cells that result from the meiotic divisions of a spermatocyte and mature into spermatozoa.
- standpipe — a vertical pipe or tower into which water is pumped to obtain a required head.
- stapedial — the innermost, stirrup-shaped bone of a chain of three small bones in the middle ear of humans and other mammals, involved in the conduction of sound vibrations to the inner ear. Also called stirrup. Compare incus (def 1), malleus.
- stapedius — the small muscle in the inner ear attached to and controlling the stapes
- tepidaria — in Ancient Rome, the warm rooms of the baths
- therapsid — any of various groups of mammallike reptiles of the extinct order Therapsida, inhabiting all continents from mid-Permian to late Triassic times, some of which were probably warm-blooded and directly ancestral to mammals.
- trapezoid — Geometry. a quadrilateral plane figure having two parallel and two nonparallel sides. British. trapezium (def 1b).
- trepidant — trepid.
- triparted — divided into three parts.
- videotape — magnetic tape on which the electronic impulses produced by the video and audio portions of a television program, motion picture, etc., are recorded (distinguished from audiotape).
- whitedamp — a poisonous coal-mine gas composed chiefly of carbon monoxide.