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13-letter words containing d, u, a

  • overpopulated — to fill with an excessive number of people, straining available resources and facilities: Expanding industry has overpopulated the western suburbs.
  • overqualified — having more education, training, or experience than is required for a job or position.
  • oversaturated — to cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance, through solution, chemical combination, or the like.
  • pamlico sound — a sound between the North Carolina mainland and coastal islands.
  • pandiculation — the act of stretching oneself.
  • pao de acucar — Portuguese name of Sugarloaf Mountain.
  • parade ground — A parade ground is an area of ground where soldiers practise marching and have parades.
  • paradigm plus — A configurable object-oriented CASE tool from Proto Soft.
  • paradise duck — a large duck, Casarca variegata, of New Zealand, having a brightly coloured plumage
  • partly cloudy — sky: not constantly clear
  • pas de basque — a step in which the dancer swings one foot to the side, springs onto it, and swings the other foot against it.
  • passamaquoddy — a member of a small tribe of North American Indians formerly of coastal Maine and New Brunswick and now living in Maine.
  • peace studies — a field of political science which examines how to reduce conflicts
  • pease pudding — a pudding of strained split peas mixed with egg.
  • pedal pushers — women's short trousers
  • pentadelphous — (of a plant) having its stamens arranged in five groups; (of stamens) being arranged in five groups
  • perpendicular — vertical; straight up and down; upright.
  • pharaoh hound — one of a breed of medium-sized gazehounds with a smooth coat, red to tan in color with white markings, and erect ears.
  • philo judaeus — c20 b.c.–a.d. c50, Alexandrian Jewish theologian and philosopher.
  • phyllocladous — having phylloclades.
  • piper gurnard — a marine fish, Trigla lyra, of the family Triglidae
  • plague-ridden — afflicted by the plague or a plague
  • platiniridium — a natural alloy composed chiefly of platinum and iridium.
  • platinum disc — (in Britain) an album certified to have sold 300 000 copies or a single certified to have sold 600 000 copies
  • platitudinize — to utter platitudes.
  • platitudinous — characterized by or given to platitudes.
  • pleasure dome — a large building, facility, or place used for recreation.
  • plough monday — the first Monday after Epiphany, which in N and E England used to be celebrated with a procession of ploughmen drawing a plough from house to house
  • plug and play — (sometimes lowercase) a standard for the production of compatible computers, peripherals, and software that facilitates device installation and enables automatic configuration of the system.
  • plug and pray — (humour)   The Windows 95 equivalent of the Macintosh's plug and play, referring to difficulties encountered when setting up new hardware under Windows 95.
  • plug-and-play — Plug-and-play is used to describe computer equipment, for example a printer, that is ready to use immediately when you connect it to a computer.
  • point d'appui — a support or prop
  • polyadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three or more sets or bundles.
  • polybutadiene — a rubberlike polymer of butadiene blended with other synthetics to replace natural rubber in tires.
  • port du salut — Port-Salut.
  • post-freudian — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
  • post-graduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
  • postdebutante — following the stage of being a debutante
  • potter around — If you potter around or potter about, you do pleasant but unimportant things, without hurrying.
  • poulard wheat — a Mediterranean wheat, Triticum turgidum, grown as a forage crop in the U.S.
  • pre-adulthood — of or relating to the period prior to adulthood: preadult strivings for independence.
  • pre-education — the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
  • preformulated — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
  • preindustrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
  • prejudication — the act of judging beforehand
  • prejudicative — tending to prejudge
  • prejudicially — causing prejudice or disadvantage; detrimental.
  • premandibular — situated in front of the mandible
  • pressure drag — the part of the total drag of a body moving through a gas or liquid caused by the components of the pressures at right angles to the surface of the body
  • pressure head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
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