10-letter words containing n, p, d
- interloped — Simple past tense and past participle of interlope.
- interplead — to litigate with each other in order to determine which of two parties is the rightful claimant against a third party.
- interposed — Simple past tense and past participle of interpose.
- intrepidly — In an intrepid manner; fearlessly; daringly; resolutely.
- iproniazid — a compound, C 9 H 13 N 3 O, used in the treatment of mental depression and tuberculosis.
- island-hop — to travel from island to island, especially to visit a series of islands in the same chain or area.
- isoprenoid — pertaining to, derived from, or similar to isoprene.
- jade plant — a succulent shrub, Crassula argentea, of the stonecrop family, native to southern Africa, having fleshy, oval leaves, often grown as a houseplant.
- jeoparding — Present participle of jeopard.
- keep under — to remain or cause to remain below (a surface)
- keypunched — Simple past tense and past participle of keypunch.
- kidnappers — Plural form of kidnapper.
- kidnapping — to steal, carry off, or abduct by force or fraud, especially for use as a hostage or to extract ransom.
- knapsacked — Simple past tense and past participle of knapsack.
- kneecapped — Simple past tense and past participle of kneecap.
- knocked up — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
- land power — a nation having an important and powerful army.
- landlouper — A vagabond; a vagrant.
- landscaped — Simple past tense and past participle of landscape.
- landscaper — a gardener who does landscape gardening.
- landscapes — Plural form of landscape.
- lap dancer — a scantily dressed woman who dances erotically for individual members of the audience
- lapidarian — Also, lapidist [lap-i-dist] /ˈlæp ɪ dɪst/ (Show IPA). a worker who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones.
- lapidation — to pelt with stones.
- launch pad — the platform on which a missile or launch vehicle undergoes final prelaunch checkout and countdown and from which it is launched from the surface of the earth.
- lead paint — paint containing lead
- leadplants — Plural form of leadplant.
- lemon drop — a lemon-flavored lozenge.
- limpidness — The property of being limpid, clarity.
- lipreading — the reading or understanding, as by a deaf person, of spoken words from the movements of another's lips without hearing the sounds made.
- lisp-linda — P. Dourish, U Edinburgh 1988.
- lymph node — any of the glandlike masses of tissue in the lymphatic vessels containing cells that become lymphocytes.
- map legend — key to symbols on a map
- mcpartland — Marian, 1918–2013, British jazz pianist and composer, in U.S. since 1946.
- megaphoned — Simple past tense and past participle of megaphone.
- meperidine — a narcotic compound, C 1 5 H 2 1 NO 2 , used as an analgesic and sedative.
- midshipman — a student, as at the U.S. Naval Academy, in training for commission as ensign in the Navy or second lieutenant in the Marine Corps. Compare cadet (def 2).
- midshipmen — Plural form of midshipman.
- mindscapes — Plural form of mindscape.
- misplanned — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- misprinted — Simple past tense and past participle of misprint.
- monopodial — (botany) Having a monopodium or a single and continuous axis, as a birch twig or a cornstalk.
- monopodium — a single main axis that continues to extend at the apex in the original line of growth, giving off lateral branches beneath in acropetal succession.
- monospaced — Simple past tense and past participle of monospace.
- mont perdu — a mountain in NE Spain, in the central Pyrenees. Height: 3352 m (10 997 ft)
- mudcapping — the process or act of blasting a rock surface with explosives
- multipaned — having or comprising more than one pane, esp of glass
- named pipe — (operating system) A Unix pipe with a filename created using the "mknod" command. Named pipes allow unrelated processes to communicate with each other whereas the normal (un-named) kind can only be used by processes which are parent and child or siblings (forked from the same parent).
- necropsied — the examination of a body after death; autopsy.
- nephridial — Of or pertaining to a nephridium.