10-letter words containing d, i, p, r
- lapidarist — Also, lapidist [lap-i-dist] /ˈlæp ɪ dɪst/ (Show IPA). a worker who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones.
- leadership — the position or function of a leader, a person who guides or directs a group: He managed to maintain his leadership of the party despite heavy opposition. Synonyms: administration, management, directorship, control, governorship, stewardship, hegemony.
- 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.
- loperamide — a substance, C 29 H 33 ClN 2 O 2 , used in the treatment of diarrhea.
- low-priced — selling at a low price; inexpensive; cheap.
- madreporic — Resembling, or pertaining to, the genus Madrepora.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- ornithopod — any herbivorous dinosaur of the suborder Ornithopoda whose members usually walked erect on their hind legs.
- orthopedic — of or relating to orthopedics.
- overpriced — to price excessively high; set too high a price on.
- pack drill — a military punishment by which the offender is made to march about carrying a full pack of equipment
- paderewski — Ignace [French ee-nyas] /French iˈnyas/ (Show IPA), or Ignacy Jan [Polish ig-nah-tsi yahn] /Polish ɪgˈnɑ tsɪ yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1860–1941, Polish pianist, composer, patriot, and statesman.
- padma shri — (in India) an award for distinguished service in any field
- paedotribe — (in ancient Greece) a gymnastics teacher
- 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.
- pandermite — a white, marble-like mineral
- pantrymaid — a domestic maid whose duties concern the pantry
- panty raid — a prankish raid by male college students on the living quarters of female students to steal panties as trophies.
- paraboloid — a surface that can be put into a position such that its sections parallel to at least one coordinate plane are parabolas.
- paradiddle — an exercise or sequence performed typically on the snare drum, marked by four basic beats with alternation of the right hand and left hand on successive strong beats, and begun and ended slowly with a dramatic increase in tempo in the middle.
- paradisaic — paradisiacal.
- paradisean — of the genus Paradisaea (birds of paradise)
- paradisiac — of, like, or befitting paradise.
- paraglider — Also called parawing. a steerable glider with inflatable wings proposed for use as an emergency vehicle for travel between a space station and the earth or for the recovery of rocket boosters.
- parapodial — of, relating to, or resembling a parapodium
- parapodium — one of the unjointed rudimentary limbs or processes of locomotion of many worms, as annelids.
- parasitoid — an organism that practices parasitoidism.
- pareidolia — the imagined perception of a pattern or meaning where it does not actually exist, as in considering the moon to have human features
- park ridge — a city in NE Illinois.
- parlormaid — a maid who takes care of a parlor, answers the door, waits on guests, etc.
- parmenides — flourished c450 b.c, Greek Eleatic philosopher.
- parodistic — parodic.
- pathfinder — a historical novel (1840) by James Fenimore Cooper.
- patio door — Patio doors are glass doors that lead onto a patio.
- patricidal — the act of killing one's own father.
- patronised — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.