10-letter words containing n, p, d
- blind-spot — Also called blind spot. an area in which radio or cell phone signals are weak and their reception poor.
- body punch — a blow to the body of an opponent
- bond paper — a superior quality of strong white paper, used esp for writing and typing
- brain dump — (The act of telling someone) everything one knows about a particular topic. Typically used when someone is going to let a new party maintain a piece of code. Conceptually analogous to an operating system core dump in that it saves a lot of useful state before an exit. "You'll have to give me a brain dump on FOOBAR before you start your new job at HackerCorp." At Sun, this is also known as "TOI" (transfer of information).
- campaigned — Simple past tense and past participle of campaign.
- campground — A campground is the same as a campsite.
- candlepins — a type of bowling game, employing a smaller ball than tenpins, in which three balls are allowed to a frame and fallen pins are not removed from the alley
- candy pull — a social gathering at which taffy or molasses candy is made.
- card punch — keypunch (def 1).
- card-punch — Also, key punch. Also called card punch. a machine, operated by a keyboard, for coding information by punching holes in cards or paper tape in specified patterns.
- cardphones — Plural form of cardphone.
- centipedes — Plural form of centipede.
- championed — a person who has defeated all opponents in a competition or series of competitions, so as to hold first place: the heavyweight boxing champion.
- chaperoned — a person, usually a married or older woman, who, for propriety, accompanies a young unmarried woman in public or who attends a party of young unmarried men and women.
- chipmunked — Simple past tense and past participle of chipmunk.
- clamp down — To clamp down on people or activities means to take strong official action to stop or control them.
- clamp-down — a device, usually of some rigid material, for strengthening or supporting objects or fastening them together.
- clampdowns — Plural form of clampdown.
- cnidophore — a part or organ bearing cnidoblasts.
- companding — a process in which the dynamic range of a signal is reduced for recording purposes and then expanded to its original value for reproduction or playback.
- compendial — Related to a compendium that serves as a standard, such as the w British Pharmacopoeia, or the w US Pharmacopeia.
- compendium — A compendium is a short but detailed collection of information, usually in a book.
- complained — to express dissatisfaction, pain, uneasiness, censure, resentment, or grief; find fault: He complained constantly about the noise in the corridor.
- compound q — trichosanthin: an antiviral drug derived from the root of a Chinese cucumber plant, used in the treatment of AIDS.
- compounded — If something is compounded of different things, it is a mixture of those things.
- compounder — A person who mixes or combines ingredients in order to produce an animal feed, medicine, or other substance.
- comprehend — If you cannot comprehend something, you cannot understand it.
- correspond — If one thing corresponds to another, there is a close similarity or connection between them. You can also say that two things correspond.
- coryphodon — a primitive hoofed mammal of the extinct genus Coryphodon, of the early Eocene Epoch, having a long, thickset body, short legs, and five-toed feet, each toe ending in a small hoof.
- cranked up — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
- cupidinous — having a great desire or cupidity
- cynopodous — (of some mammals, such as dogs) having claws that do not retract
- cyprinoids — Plural form of cyprinoid.
- dapperness — neat; trim; smart: He looked very dapper in his new suit.
- data point — a single fact or piece of information; a datum: Other data points, such as crime statistics, are available from the state government.
- datapoints — Plural form of datapoint.
- dauphiness — dauphine.
- dauphinois — (of potatoes or other vegetables) sliced and cooked in milk, typically with a topping of cheese.
- davenports — Plural form of davenport.
- dawes plan — a plan to ensure payments of reparations by Germany after World War I, devised by an international committee headed by Charles Gates Dawes and put into effect in 1924.
- deaconship — (in hierarchical churches) a member of the clerical order next below that of a priest.
- dead point — dead center
- deadpanned — marked by or accomplished with a careful pretense of seriousness or calm detachment; impassive or expressionless: deadpan humor.
- deadpanner — a person who has a deliberately emotionless face
- decampment — The act of decamping.
- deceptions — Plural form of deception.
- decompound — (of a compound leaf) having leaflets consisting of several distinct parts
- decoupling — the separation of previously linked systems so that they may operate independently
- decrypting — Present participle of decrypt.
- decryption — to decode or decipher.