10-letter words containing d, o, r, a
- petrolhead — a person who is excessively interested in or is devoted to travelling by car
- phone card — calling card (def 3).
- photodrama — photoplay.
- pirandello — Luigi [loo-ee-jee] /luˈi dʒi/ (Show IPA), 1867–1936, Italian dramatist, novelist, and poet: Nobel prize 1934.
- plauditory — approving or laudatory
- playground — an area used for outdoor play or recreation, especially by children, and often containing recreational equipment such as slides and swings.
- pockmarked — Usually, pockmarks. scars or pits left by a pustule in smallpox or the like.
- podiatrist — a person qualified to diagnose and treat foot disorders.
- podocarpus — any of various coniferous evergreen trees of the genus Podocarpus, of tropical and semitropical regions, especially P. macrophyllus, which is cultivated as an ornamental.
- polar body — one of the minute cells arising from the unequal meiotic divisions of the ovum at or near the time of fertilization.
- polyandric — polyandrous.
- polyhedral — of, relating to, or having the shape of a polyhedron.
- ponderable — capable of being considered carefully or deeply.
- ponderance — weight or significance
- pontevedra — a port in NW Spain: takes its name from a 12-arched Roman bridge, the Pons Vetus. Pop: 77 993 (2003 est)
- port sudan — a seaport in the NE Sudan, on the Red Sea.
- postmarked — an official mark stamped on letters and other mail, serving as a cancellation of the postage stamp and indicating the place, date, and sometimes time of sending or receipt.
- predacious — predatory; rapacious.
- predicator — the verbal element of a clause or sentence.
- preholiday — relating to the period before a holiday
- pressboard — a kind of millboard or pasteboard.
- primordial — constituting a beginning; giving origin to something derived or developed; original; elementary: primordial forms of life.
- prismatoid — a polyhedron having its vertices lying on two parallel planes.
- pro-indian — Also called American Indian, Amerind, Amerindian, Native American. a member of the aboriginal people of America or of any of the aboriginal North or South American stocks, usually excluding the Eskimos.
- procedural — procedural language
- proctodeal — a depression in the ectoderm of the anal region of a young embryo, which develops into part of the anal canal.
- prodigally — wastefully or recklessly extravagant: prodigal expenditure.
- prodromata — signs or symptoms revealing the onset of a disease
- programmed — a plan of action to accomplish a specified end: a school lunch program.
- prolicidal — characteristic of prolicide
- pronograde — walking with the body parallel to the ground
- propaganda — information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
- propagated — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
- proplastid — a plant cell organelle that a plastid develops from
- prose edda — either of two old Icelandic literary works, one a collection of poems on mythical and religious subjects (or) erroneously attributed to Saemund Sigfusson (c1055–1133), the other a collection of ancient Scandinavian myths and legends, rules and theories of versification, poems, etc. (or) compiled and written in part by Snorri Sturluson (1179–1241).
- prostrated — to cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.
- protracted — to draw out or lengthen, especially in time; extend the duration of; prolong.
- providable — to make available; furnish: to provide employees with various benefits.
- pseudocarp — accessory fruit.
- pteranodon — a flying reptile of the extinct order Pterosauria, from the Cretaceous Period, having a wingspread of about 25 feet (8 meters).
- punchboard — a small board containing holes filled with slips of paper printed with concealed numbers that are punched out by a player in an attempt to win a prize.
- pyramidion — a miniature pyramid, as at the apex of an obelisk.
- pyranoside — a glycoside containing a pyran ring structure.
- quadcopter — A rotorcraft propelled by four rotors.
- quadricone — a quadric surface swept out by a straight line that passes through a fixed point such that no straight line can intersect it at more than two points
- quadrifoil — Alternative form of quadrifoliate.
- quadriform — having four parts or sides
- quadrilogy — (nonstandard) A tetralogy.
- quadripole — an electric circuit with two input and two output terminals
- quadroxide — (chemistry) A tetroxide.