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11-letter words containing n, a, d, p

  • maiden pink — a turf-forming plant, Dianthus deltoides , found from western Europe to eastern Asia, having red or pink flowers.
  • manipulated — Simple past tense and past participle of manipulate.
  • map-reading — the act or skill of interpreting the significance of a geographical map
  • mishappened — Simple past tense and past participle of mishappen.
  • mispleading — a mistake in pleading, as a misjoinder of parties or a misstatement of a cause of action.
  • model plane — a small-scale model of an aircraft, which may or may not be able to fly
  • mom and pop — a small family-owned private business enterprise
  • mom-and-pop — of or relating to a small retail business, usually owned and operated by members of a family: a mom-and-pop grocery.
  • monographed — Simple past tense and past participle of monograph.
  • mope around — If you mope around or mope about a place, you wander around there not doing anything, looking and feeling unhappy.
  • mpls domain — (networking)   A portion of a network that contains devices that understand MPLS.
  • namedropper — A person who name-drops.
  • nasal drops — Nasal drops are medicine that you put directly in your nose one drop at a time.
  • nodal point — either of two points on the axis of a lens or other optical system, determined by extending an incident oblique ray and the corresponding refracted ray to the axis for the pair of rays that are parallel outside the optical system.
  • nonadaptive — serving or able to adapt; showing or contributing to adaptation: the adaptive coloring of a chameleon.
  • nudist camp — a resort where nudism is practiced
  • numeric pad — a separate section on some computer keyboards, grouping together numeric keys and those for mathematical or other special functions in an arrangement like that of a calculator.
  • odd-pinnate — pinnate with an odd terminal leaflet.
  • odontograph — an instrument for laying out the forms of gear teeth or ratchets.
  • odontopathy — (pathology) Any disease that affects the teeth.
  • odynophagia — Severe pain in mouth or esophagus when attempting to swallow.
  • old persian — an ancient West Iranian language attested by cuneiform inscriptions. Abbreviation: OPers.
  • old spanish — the Spanish language of the 12th to the 16th centuries. Abbreviation: OSp.
  • open dating — the practice of putting a freshness date on food packages.
  • open-handed — generous; liberal: openhanded hospitality.
  • openhearted — Frank and candid.
  • opinionated — obstinate or conceited with regard to the merit of one's own opinions; conceitedly dogmatic.
  • orland park — a town in NE Illinois.
  • orphan drug — Pharmacology. a drug that remains undeveloped or untested or is otherwise neglected because of limited potential for commercial gain.
  • over-expand — to increase in extent, size, volume, scope, etc.: Heat expands most metals. He hopes to expand his company.
  • overplanned — resulting from overplanning
  • p's and q's — manners; behavior; conduct (usually preceded by mind or watch): The children were told to mind their p's and q's.
  • pachysandra — any plant of the genus Pachysandra, as the Allegheny spurge or Japanese spurge, the leaves of which grow in a rounded clump, widely used as a ground cover in the U.S.
  • paddy wagon — Informal. patrol wagon.
  • paedodontic — of or relating to paedodontics
  • page design — the way a page is organized and presented
  • painted cup — any of several semiparasitic plants of the genus Castilleja, of the figwort family, having highly colored dilated bracts about the flowers.
  • palindromic — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
  • palladinize — to treat or cover (a surface) with palladium.
  • palm sunday — the Sunday before Easter, celebrated in commemoration of Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem.
  • palmer land — the southern part of the Antarctic Peninsula.
  • pancake day — Christian calendar: Shrove Tuesday
  • pancarditis — inflammation of the entire heart: the pericardium, myocardium, and endocardium.
  • panda plant — a succulent perennial shrub, Kalanchoe tomentosa, of Madagascar, having oblate leaves with gray fuzz and brown blotches on the edges.
  • pandemonian — a noisy and disorderly person
  • pandemonium — wild uproar or unrestrained disorder; tumult or chaos.
  • panhandling — to accost passers-by on the street and beg from them.
  • pantaletted — clothed in pantalets
  • pantalooned — wearing pantaloons
  • paper round — job delivering newspapers
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