11-letter words containing e, s, p, a, d
- pedobaptist — a person who advocates or practices pedobaptism.
- pentandrous — of or pertaining to the order of plants Pentandria, characterized by having five stamens
- pentastomid — tongue worm.
- personal ad — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- persuadable — to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
- phase speed — the speed at which the phase of a wave is propagated, the product of the frequency times the wavelength. This is the quantity that is determined by methods using interference. In a dispersive medium it differs from the group speed
- phosphatide — phospholipid.
- photostated — a camera for making facsimile copies of documents, drawings, etc., in the form of paper negatives on which the positions of lines, objects, etc., in the originals are maintained.
- piebaldness — having patches of black and white or of other colors; parti-colored.
- plagiarised — to take and use by plagiarism.
- plasmodesma — any of many minute strands of cytoplasm that extend through plant cell walls and connect adjoining cells.
- plasticated — covered with a layer of plastic
- pond-skater — any of various heteropterous insects of the family Gerrididae, esp Gerris lacustris (common pond-skater), having a slender hairy body and long hairy legs with which they skim about on the surface of ponds
- postal code — British. postcode.
- pre-address — a speech or written statement, usually formal, directed to a particular group of persons: the president's address on the state of the economy.
- preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
- predeceased — to die before (another person, the occurrence of an event, etc.).
- prediabetes — a condition in which carbohydrate metabolism is mildly abnormal but other criteria indicating diabetes mellitus are absent.
- predispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- predisposal — to give an inclination or tendency to beforehand; make susceptible: Genetic factors may predispose human beings to certain metabolic diseases.
- predynastic — of, relating to, or belonging to a time or period before the first dynasty of a nation, especially the period in Egypt before c3200 b.c.
- prendergast — Maurice Brazil [braz-uh l] /ˈbræz əl/ (Show IPA), 1859–1924, U.S. painter.
- present-day — current; modern: present-day techniques; present-day English.
- prestandard — something considered by an authority or by general consent as a basis of comparison; an approved model.
- pseudoedema — effusion of serous fluid into the interstices of cells in tissue spaces or into body cavities.
- pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
- pseudologia — a psychological condition in which a patient tells elaborate, false stories believing them to be true
- pseudomonad — any of various bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas
- pseudomonas — any of several rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas, certain species of which are pathogenic for plants and animals.
- pseudopodal — (of protozoans) belonging to the former division Pseudopoda
- pseudopodia — pseudopod.
- psychedelia — the realm or artifacts of psychedelic drugs, art, writings, or the like.
- psychodelia — the production of, or the culture associated with, psychedelic experiences
- pulse radar — a radar system using pulse modulation
- quadruplets — Plural form of quadruplet.
- radarscopes — Plural form of radarscope.
- rapid chess — a game of chess played within a fixed amount of time, usually 30 minutes per player for all moves.
- red snapper — any of several snappers of the genus Lutjanus, especially L. campechanus, a large food fish of the Gulf of Mexico.
- relandscape — to landscape again after a previous landscaping
- saddle soap — a soap, usually consisting chiefly of Castile, used for cleaning and preserving saddles and other leather articles.
- safe period — an interval of the menstrual cycle when fertilization is considered to be least likely, usually a number of days prior and subsequent to the onset of menstruation.
- salad plate — a small plate used chiefly for serving an individual portion of salad.
- saline drip — the usually intravenous drop-by-drop administration of an isotonic solution of sodium chloride in distilled water
- sand hopper — beach flea.
- sand-groper — a native of the arid region of Western Australia.
- sandia peak — a mountain in N central New Mexico in the Sandia Mountains. 10,678 feet (3255 meters).
- sapphic ode — Horatian ode.
- scolopendra — a member of a genus of centipedes belonging to the Scolopendridae family
- scorpaenoid — resembling or related to the family Scorpaenidae.
- seed potato — a potato tuber used for planting