7-letter words containing d, p
- pléiade — a group of seven French poets of the 16th cent. who favored the use of classical forms
- pleopod — a swimmeret.
- plodded — to walk heavily or move laboriously; trudge: to plod under the weight of a burden.
- plodder — to walk heavily or move laboriously; trudge: to plod under the weight of a burden.
- plopped — to make a sound like that of something falling or dropping into water: A frog plopped into the pond.
- plotted — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
- plotzed — drunk; intoxicated.
- plovdiv — a city in S Bulgaria, on the Maritsa River.
- plucked — to pull off or out from the place of growth, as fruit, flowers, feathers, etc.: to pluck feathers from a chicken.
- plugged — If something is plugged or plugged up, it is completely blocked so that nothing can get through it.
- plumbed — a small mass of lead or other heavy material, as that suspended by a line and used to measure the depth of water or to ascertain a vertical line. Compare plumb line.
- plunder — to rob of goods or valuables by open force, as in war, hostile raids, brigandage, etc.: to plunder a town.
- plunged — to cast or thrust forcibly or suddenly into something, as a liquid, a penetrable substance, a place, etc.; immerse; submerge: to plunge a dagger into one's heart.
- plywood — a material used for various building purposes, consisting usually of an odd number of veneers glued over each other, usually at right angles.
- poached — to trespass, especially on another's game preserve, in order to steal animals or to hunt.
- pochard — an Old World diving duck, Aythya ferina, having a chestnut-red head.
- podagra — gouty inflammation of the great toe.
- podalic — pertaining to the feet.
- podcast — a digital audio or video file or recording, usually part of a themed series, that can be downloaded from a website to a media player or computer: Download or subscribe to daily, one-hour podcasts of our radio show.
- podding — a somewhat elongated, two-valved seed vessel, as that of the pea or bean.
- podesta — any of certain magistrates in Italy, as a chief magistrate in medieval towns and republics.
- poditic — relating to the limb segment of a crustacean
- podlike — resembling a pod
- podolsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, S of Moscow.
- poinder — a person who protects and cares for hedges, woods, etc
- pointed — having a point or points: a pointed arch.
- pollard — a tree cut back nearly to the trunk, so as to produce a dense mass of branches.
- polyped — a being or object having many legs: Her favorite toy is a bug-shaped polyped.
- polypod — (of insect larvae) having many feet.
- pommard — a dry, red wine from the Pommard parish in Burgundy.
- pondage — the water held in a reservoir
- ponding — a body of water smaller than a lake, sometimes artificially formed, as by damming a stream.
- poniard — a small, slender dagger.
- poor-do — scrapple.
- popedom — the office or dignity of a pope.
- popeyed — marked by bulging, staring eyes: a young boy popeyed with excitement.
- poppied — covered or adorned with poppies: poppied fields.
- portend — to indicate in advance; to foreshadow or presage, as an omen does: The street incident may portend a general uprising.
- posadas — a city in NE Argentina, on the Paraná River.
- posited — to place, put, or set.
- postdoc — a postdoctoral award or scholar.
- pothead — a person who habitually smokes marijuana.
- potsdam — a state in NE central Germany. 10,039 sq. mi. (26,000 sq. km). Capital: Potsdam.
- pouched — having a pouch, as the pelicans, gophers, and marsupials.
- poulard — a hen spayed to improve the flesh for use as food.
- poundal — the foot-pound-second unit of force, equal to the force that produces an acceleration of one foot per second per second on a mass of one pound. Abbreviation: pdl.
- pounded — Archaic. to shut up in or as in a pound; impound; imprison.
- pounder — a person or thing having or associated with a weight or value of a pound or a specified number of pounds (often used in combination): He caught only one fish, but it was an eight-pounder.
- pousada — a government-operated inn in Portugal.
- powdery — consisting of or resembling powder: powdery sand; powdery clouds.