10-letter words containing d, i, p, e
- loperamide — a substance, C 29 H 33 ClN 2 O 2 , used in the treatment of diarrhea.
- lopsidedly — In a lopsided manner.
- low-priced — selling at a low price; inexpensive; cheap.
- madreporic — Resembling, or pertaining to, the genus Madrepora.
- maxilliped — one member of the three pairs of appendages situated immediately behind the maxillae of crustaceans.
- media hype — intensive or exaggerated publicity in the mass media
- mediascape — Communications media as a whole.
- mediaspeak — The jargon used by the media.
- mediumship — The state of being a medium (psychic conduit).
- meperidine — a narcotic compound, C 1 5 H 2 1 NO 2 , used as an analgesic and sedative.
- mercaptide — a metallic salt of a mercaptan.
- metapodial — (anatomy, zoology) Of or pertaining to the human metacarpal bones (between the wrist and fingers) or the metatarsal bones (between the ankle and toes); of or pertaining to the equivalent bones in animals.
- midshipmen — Plural form of midshipman.
- millipedes — Plural form of millipede.
- mindscapes — Plural form of mindscape.
- mis-shaped — to shape badly or wrongly; deform.
- misapplied — mistakenly applied; used wrongly.
- misdevelop — to develop in a faulty or abnormal manner
- misplanned — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- mispleaded — Simple past tense and past participle of misplead.
- mispredict — to declare or tell in advance; prophesy; foretell: to predict the weather; to predict the fall of a civilization.
- misprinted — Simple past tense and past participle of misprint.
- misshipped — a vessel, especially a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines.
- misspelled — Simple past tense and past participle of misspell.
- misstepped — Simple past tense and past participle of misstep.
- morphodite — (informal, slang) A comic slang version of hermaphrodite.
- mudskipper — any of several gobies of the genera Periophthalmus and Boleophthalmus, of tropical seas from Africa to the East Indies and Japan, noted for the habit of remaining out of water on mud flats for certain periods and jumping about when disturbed.
- multipaned — having or comprising more than one pane, esp of glass
- multiplied — to make many or manifold; increase the number, quantity, etc., of.
- multispeed — Capable of operating at multiple speeds.
- 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).
- necropsied — the examination of a body after death; autopsy.
- nephridial — Of or pertaining to a nephridium.
- nephridium — the excretory organ of many invertebrates, consisting of a tubule with one end opening into the body cavity and the other opening into a pore at the body surface.
- nerd pride — (body) The Nerd Pride movement, modeled on the Gay Pride movement, was started at MIT by Professors Gerald Sussman and Hal Abelson. Nerd pride paraphernalia includes baseball hats, buttons and - of course - pocket protectors. "My idea is to present an image to children that it is good to be intellectual, and not to care about the peer pressures to be anti-intellectual. I want every child to turn into a nerd - where that means someone who prefers studying and learning to competing for social dominance". -- Gerald Sussman, quoted by Katie Hafner, "New York Times", 1994-08-29.
- neuropodia — Plural form of neuropodium.
- nifedipine — A synthetic compound that acts as a calcium antagonist and is used as a coronary vasodilator in the treatment of cardiac and circulatory disorders.
- nimodipine — A dihydropyridine calcium channel blocker originally developed for the treatment of high blood pressure and now mostly used to prevent vasospasm.
- nonstriped — Not striped.
- odoriphore — the group of atoms in an odorous molecule responsible for its odour
- old permic — a subfamily of Finnic, comprising the modern languages Udmurt and Komi, spoken in northeastern European Russia, and fragmentary attestations of an earlier language (Old Permic) dating from the 15th century.
- on deposit — payable as the first instalment, as when buying on hire-purchase
- open field — any area of the playing field away from the heavily trafficked line of scrimmage, in which the defense is widely scattered.
- open-field — any area of the playing field away from the heavily trafficked line of scrimmage, in which the defense is widely scattered.
- open-sided — having a side or sides open.
- openminded — Alternative spelling of open-minded.
- ophicleide — a musical wind instrument, a development of the old wooden serpent, consisting of a conical metal tube bent double.
- orthopedic — of or relating to orthopedics.
- outpointed — Simple past tense and past participle of outpoint.
- overpriced — to price excessively high; set too high a price on.