8-letter words containing d, i, p
- parodist — a writer of parodies, especially of a literary subject, work, or style.
- parotoid — Also called parotoid gland. any of certain cutaneous glands forming warty masses near the ear in certain toads.
- patinaed — having or covered with a patina.
- pay dirt — soil, gravel, or ore that can be mined profitably.
- pedalier — the pedal-board of an organ, piano, etc
- pedaling — a foot-operated lever used to control certain mechanisms, as automobiles, or to play or modify the sounds of certain musical instruments, as pianos, organs, or harps.
- pedantic — ostentatious in one's learning.
- peddling — trifling; paltry; piddling.
- pedicure — professional care and treatment of the feet, as removal of corns and trimming of toenails.
- pediform — in the form of a foot; footlike.
- pedigree — an ancestral line; line of descent; lineage; ancestry.
- pediment — (in classical architecture) a low gable, typically triangular with a horizontal cornice and raking cornices, surmounting a colonnade, an end wall, or a major division of a façade.
- pedipalp — (in arachnids) one member of the usually longer pair of appendages immediately behind the chelicerae.
- pedro ii — (Dom Pedro II) 1825–91, emperor of Brazil 1831–89.
- pellucid — allowing the maximum passage of light, as glass; translucent.
- pendicle — a piece of land or property forming a subsidiary to an estate
- penfield — Wilder. 1891–1976, Canadian scientist, neurosurgeon, and writer born in the US; he developed a surgical treatment for epilepsy
- pentadic — of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a pentad
- peptidic — of or pertaining to peptides; of the nature of peptides
- per diem — by the day; for each day.
- periderm — Botany. the cork-producing tissue of stems together with the cork layers and other tissues derived from it.
- peridial — of or pertaining to the peridium
- peridium — the outer enveloping coat of the fruit body in many fungi.
- perigord — a division of the former province of Guienne, in SW France.
- periodic — of or derived from a periodic acid.
- periodid — kind of iodide
- perished — to die or be destroyed through violence, privation, etc.: to perish in an earthquake.
- peroxide — Chemistry. hydrogen peroxide, H 2 O 2 or H–O–O–H. a compound containing the bivalent group –O 2 –, derived from hydrogen peroxide, as sodium peroxide, Na 2 O 2 , or dimethyl peroxide, C 3 H 6 O 2 . the oxide of an element that contains an unusually large amount of oxygen.
- perseids — the heavy meteor showers visible annually about Aug. 12: they appear to radiate from the constellation Perseus
- petaloid — having the form or appearance of a petal.
- petdingo — (tool) An Estelle to C++ translator.
- pezizoid — having the same shape or characteristics of the cup-like fungi that belong to the genus Peziza
- phalloid — having the form of or bearing a similarity to a penis
- pheidias — Phidias
- phelloid — having a resemblance to cork
- phleboid — pertaining to or resembling a vein.
- phoronid — any member of the invertebrate phylum Phoronida, wormlike marine animals living in a chitinous tube and having an anterior structure bearing ciliated tentacles for feeding.
- photo id — a piece of personal identification that contains a photograph
- phylloid — leaflike.
- picketed — a post, stake, pale, or peg that is used in a fence or barrier, to fasten down a tent, etc.
- pickford — Mary (Gladys Marie Smith) 1893–1979, U.S. motion-picture actress, born in Canada.
- picrated — containing picrate
- piddling — amounting to very little; trifling; negligible: a piddling sum of money.
- pie dish — a shallow dish that you cook pies in
- pie-eyed — drunk; intoxicated.
- piedfort — a coin or pattern struck on a blank thicker than that used for the regular issue.
- piedmont — a plateau between the coastal plain and the Appalachian Mountains, including parts of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama.
- piedness — the condition or quality of being pied, for example in an animal
- pierhead — the outermost end of a pier or wharf.
- pierides — the Muses