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9-letter words containing d, n, e, p

  • explanted — Simple past tense and past participle of explant.
  • exploding — Burst or shatter violently and noisily as a result of rapid combustion, decomposition, excessive internal pressure, or other process, typically scattering fragments widely.
  • expounded — Simple past tense and past participle of expound.
  • expounder — A person who expounds, explains.
  • godparent — a godfather or godmother.
  • grand pre — a village in central Nova Scotia, on Minas Basin: locale of Longfellow's Evangeline.
  • gunpowder — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
  • handphone — A cordless or cellular phone.
  • handpiece — The part of a dental drill, surgical instrument, etc. that is held in the hand.
  • handpress — a printing press that is manipulated by hand
  • handshape — (in sign language) the held position of the hand and fingers in producing a particular sign.
  • handspike — a bar used as a lever.
  • harden up — to tighten the sheets of a sailing vessel so as to prevent luffing
  • harpooned — Simple past tense and past participle of harpoon.
  • headphone — Audio. a headset designed for use with a stereo system.
  • hedyphane — a white or yellow mineral with elongated crystals similar to mimetite, chiefly found in Sweden
  • henpecked — browbeaten, bullied, or intimidated by one's wife, girlfriend, etc.: a henpecked husband who never dared to contradict his wife.
  • hipped on — greatly interested or preoccupied, almost to an irrational extent; obsessed (usually followed by on): He's hipped on learning to play the tuba.
  • hipped-on — greatly interested or preoccupied, almost to an irrational extent; obsessed (usually followed by on): He's hipped on learning to play the tuba.
  • horsepond — A pond for watering horses.
  • hypnodiet — a diet involving the use of hypnosis to change one's attitude to food
  • hypodense — Less dense (than normal).
  • ideophone — A word that utilizes sound symbolism to express aspects of events that can be experienced by the senses, like smell, color, shape, sound, action, or movement.
  • idiophone — An instrument the whole of which vibrates to produce a sound when struck, shaken, or scraped, such as a bell, gong, or rattle.
  • impaneled — Simple past tense and past participle of impanel.
  • impedance — Electricity. the total opposition to alternating current by an electric circuit, equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the resistance and reactance of the circuit and usually expressed in ohms. Symbol: Z.
  • impedient — (religion, of an impediment to marriage) Serving to make a marriage illicit but valid.
  • impendent — impending.
  • impending — about to happen; imminent: their impending marriage.
  • implanted — Simple past tense and past participle of implant.
  • impounded — Simple past tense and past participle of impound.
  • impounder — One who impounds.
  • imprinted — Simple past tense and past participle of imprint.
  • imprudent — not prudent; lacking discretion; incautious; rash.
  • impudence — the quality or state of being impudent; effrontery; insolence.
  • impudency — (now rare) Impudence.
  • in spades — a tool for digging, having an iron blade adapted for pressing into the ground with the foot and a long handle commonly with a grip or crosspiece at the top, and with the blade usually narrower and flatter than that of a shovel.
  • indalpine — A selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor marketed in 1983 as an antidepressant but swiftly withdrawn when found to cause neutropenia.
  • indepthly — (nonstandard) in depth.
  • indispose — to make ill, especially slightly.
  • inspanned — Simple past tense and past participle of inspan.
  • inspected — Simple past tense and past participle of inspect.
  • interpled — having instituted interpleader proceedings
  • iprindole — a tricyclic antidepressant drug. Formula: C19H28N2
  • jaspidean — containing or resembling jasper
  • joined-up — In joined-up writing, you join all the letters in each word together, without taking your pen off the paper. This sort of writing is used by older children and adults.
  • keep down — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
  • kidnapers — Plural form of kidnaper.
  • kidnapped — a novel (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson.
  • kidnappee — to steal, carry off, or abduct by force or fraud, especially for use as a hostage or to extract ransom.
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