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10-letter words containing d, p, a, r

  • person-day — a unit of measurement, especially in accountancy, based on an ideal amount of work done by one person in one working day.
  • pescadores — (used with a plural verb) Penghu.
  • petrolhead — a person who is excessively interested in or is devoted to travelling by car
  • phone card — calling card (def 3).
  • photodrama — photoplay.
  • pilastered — having, or supported by, pilasters.
  • pilastrade — a row of pilasters.
  • pinnigrade — moving by means of finlike parts or flippers, as the seals and walruses.
  • pipe dream — unattainable wish
  • pipe-dream — to indulge in pipe dreams; fantasize.
  • pirandello — Luigi [loo-ee-jee] /luˈi dʒi/ (Show IPA), 1867–1936, Italian dramatist, novelist, and poet: Nobel prize 1934.
  • pitch-dark — dark or black as pitch: a pitch-dark night.
  • placarding — a paperboard sign or notice, as one posted in a public place or carried by a demonstrator or picketer.
  • place card — a small card with the name of a guest on it, placed on the table, to indicate where he or she is to sit.
  • plauditory — approving or laudatory
  • play dirty — use unfair or dishonest tactics
  • playground — an area used for outdoor play or recreation, especially by children, and often containing recreational equipment such as slides and swings.
  • playleader — a person who leads or assists with organized children's play
  • playreader — a person who reads and evaluates plays, as for a publisher, producer, or theatrical company.
  • plunderage — act of plundering; pillage.
  • 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.
  • praeludium — a prelude, now predominantly in a musical context
  • pranidhana — (in Mahayana Buddhism) the resolution not to enter nirvana until all beings are ready to enter.
  • pre-advice — an opinion or recommendation offered as a guide to action, conduct, etc.: I shall act on your advice.
  • pre-advise — to give counsel to; offer an opinion or suggestion as worth following: I advise you to be cautious.
  • pre-leased — to sign or grant a lease on (a building, apartment, etc.) in advance of construction: Agents have preleased more than 60 percent of the new building.
  • pre-packed — Pre-packed goods are packed or wrapped before they are sent to the shop where they are sold.
  • preadamite — a person supposed to have existed before Adam.
  • prebendary — a canon or member of the clergy who is entitled to a prebend for special services at a cathedral or collegiate church.
  • predacious — predatory; rapacious.
  • predecease — to die before (another person, the occurrence of an event, etc.).
  • predentate — of an infant whose teeth have not yet developed; occurring during or pertaining to this period of development
  • predicable — that may be predicated or affirmed; assertable.
  • predicated — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
  • predicator — the verbal element of a clause or sentence.
  • preholiday — relating to the period before a holiday
  • premedical — of or relating to studies in preparation for the formal study of medicine: a premedical course.
  • premundane — before the creation of the world; antemundane.
  • preplanned — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
  • prereading — of or relating to the period before reading a text, book, etc
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