9-letter words containing d, p, a, r
- keep dark — to keep secret or hidden
- kidnapers — Plural form of kidnaper.
- kidnapper — to steal, carry off, or abduct by force or fraud, especially for use as a hostage or to extract ransom.
- lairdship — the condition of being a laird, or the rank of laird
- lampadary — a person who lights the lamps in an Orthodox Greek Church
- land-poor — in need of ready money while owning much land.
- landloper — a wanderer, vagrant, or adventurer.
- lapboards — Plural form of lapboard.
- laplander — Also called Laplander [lap-lan-der, -luh n-] /ˈlæpˌlæn dər, -lən-/ (Show IPA). a member of a Finnic people of northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and adjacent regions.
- leporidae — an animal of the family Leporidae, comprising the rabbits and hares.
- lop-eared — having ears that droop or hang down.
- macropods — Plural form of macropod.
- madperson — (gender-neutral) A madman or madwoman.
- madrepore — any true or stony coral of the order Madreporaria, forming reefs or islands in tropical seas.
- mail drop — a receptacle or one of a series of pigeonholelike slots, as in an office, into which incoming mail is placed for pickup.
- maildrops — Plural form of maildrop.
- manspread — (of a man) to sit with one's legs far apart, taking up too much space on a seat shared with other people: guys who manspread on the subway.
- marked-up — a visible impression or trace on something, as a line, cut, dent, stain, or bruise: a small mark on his arm.
- md-player — a machine on which you can play minidiscs
- meropidan — any insectivorous bird of the family Meropidae
- midspread — (statistics) The interquartile range.
- mold-warp — the common European mole, Talpa europaea.
- mopboards — Plural form of mopboard.
- myriapods — Plural form of myriapod.
- name-drop — mention famous person to impress
- nephridia — 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.
- on parade — on display
- ondograph — an instrument for graphically recording oscillatory variations, as in alternating currents.
- outspread — spread out; stretched out: outspread arms.
- overpedal — to play (the piano) with excessive use of the pedals
- overplaid — a plaid pattern superimposed on another plaid
- pachyderm — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
- packboard — a rigid wooden or metal frame, covered with fabric and having shoulder straps, to which equipment can be strapped for carrying.
- paderborn — a city in North Rhine–Westphalia, in NW Germany.
- padre pio — a form of punishment shooting employed by paramilitaries in Northern Ireland in which the victim is shot through the palms of both hands
- padronism — a system of exploitative work controlled by a padrone
- paediatry — the branch of medical science concerned with children and their diseases
- pair bond — the exclusive relationship formed between a male and a female, esp in some species of animals and birds during courtship and breeding
- pair-bond — (of a mating couple) to form and maintain a pair bond.
- paloverde — a spiny, desert shrub, Cercidium floridum, of the legume family, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having green bark.
- paludrine — proguanil hydrochloride, a synthetic antimalarial drug first produced in 1944
- pan-fried — Pan-fried food is food that has been cooked in hot fat or oil in a frying pan.
- panda car — a small patrol car used by the police.
- panderess — a female panderer
- pandering — a person who furnishes clients for a prostitute or supplies persons for illicit sexual intercourse; procurer; pimp.
- panderism — the work of a pander
- panderous — resembling a pander
- pandurate — shaped like a fiddle, as a leaf.
- pangender — Also, pangendered. noting or relating to a person whose gender identity is not limited to one gender and who may feel like a member of all genders at the same time.
- panjandra — pompous self-important officials of people of rank