11-letter words containing n, p, d
- bondmanship — the state of being a bondman; serfdom
- bound up in — If something is bound up in a particular form or place, it is fixed in that form or contained in that place.
- branchiopod — any crustacean of the mainly freshwater subclass Branchiopoda, having flattened limblike appendages for swimming, feeding, and respiration. The group includes the water fleas
- brandy snap — Brandy snaps are very thin crisp biscuits in the shape of hollow cylinders. They are flavoured with ginger and are often filled with cream.
- brown pound — the perceived purchasing power of Britain’s Black and Asian minorities as a group
- budget plan — the planning of one's spending
- buttoned up — If you say that someone is buttoned up, you mean that they do not usually talk about their thoughts and feelings.
- buttoned-up — carefully planned, operated, supervised, etc.: one of the most buttoned-up companies in the business.
- caddy spoon — a small spoon used in taking tea from a storage caddy.
- campgrounds — Plural form of campground.
- candlepower — the luminous intensity of a source of light in a given direction: now expressed in candelas but formerly in terms of the international candle
- candy apple — A candy apple is an apple coated with hard, red sugar syrup and fixed on a stick.
- cap in hand — If you go cap in hand to someone, you ask them very humbly to give you something or to do something for you.
- caparisoned — (of a horse) Having a richly ornamented harness.
- capernoited — capricious
- cappadocian — of or relating to Cappadocia or its inhabitants
- capped pawn — a pawn that has been singled out or marked by a strong player as the one with which he or she intends to effect checkmate in giving a weaker opponent odds.
- cardiolipin — a lipid purified from bovine heart and used as an antigen for reacting with reagin, the Wassermann antibody, in the Wassermann diagnostic test for syphilis.
- chenopodium — (botany) Any member of the flowering plant genus Chenopodium.
- chippendale — Chippendale is a style of furniture from the eighteenth century.
- chordophone — any musical instrument producing sounds through the vibration of strings, such as the piano, harp, violin, or guitar
- clodhopping — loutish; boorish.
- closed plan — an office floor plan consisting of fully enclosed office spaces.
- codependent — A codependent person is in an unsatisfactory relationship with someone who is ill or an addict, but does not want the relationship to end.
- companioned — Simple past tense and past participle of companion.
- companywide — Extending throughout a company.
- compendious — containing or stating the essentials of a subject in a concise form; succinct
- compendiums — Plural form of compendium.
- compensated — Simple past tense and past participle of compensate.
- compounding — the addition of interest on interest already earned or charged
- comprehends — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of comprehend.
- condisciple — a fellow disciple or a fellow student
- conscripted — enrolled for compulsory service, esp military service
- constipated — Someone who is constipated has difficulty in getting rid of solid waste from their body.
- coon rapids — a city in E Minnesota.
- copyediting — Alternative spelling of copy editing.
- copywronged — copybroke
- corresponds — Have a close similarity; match or agree almost exactly.
- cosponsored — Simple past tense and past participle of cosponsor.
- coupon bond — a bond, usually a bearer bond, that pays interest by means of coupons with specific cash values.
- crampedness — confined or severely limited in space: cramped closets.
- crap around — Vulgar. excrement. an act of defecation.
- cropdusting — the spreading of fungicide, etc on crops in the form of dust, often from an aircraft
- cryptomonad — any of various protozoalike algae of the phylum Cryptophyta usually having two flagella, common in both marine and freshwater environments where they appear along the shore as algal blooms, some also occurring as intestinal parasites.
- cuspidation — decoration using cusps
- cyprinodont — any small tropical or subtropical soft-finned fish of the mostly marine family Cyprinodontidae, resembling carp but having toothed jaws. The group includes the guppy, killifish, swordtail, and topminnow
- dalton plan — a system devised to encourage pupils to learn and develop at their own speed, using libraries and other sources to complete long assignments
- damping off — any of various diseases of plants, esp the collapse and death of seedlings caused by the parasitic fungus Pythium debaryanum and related fungi in conditions of excessive moisture
- damping-off — a disease of seedlings, occurring either before or immediately after emerging from the soil, characterized by rotting of the stem at soil level and eventual collapse of the plant, caused by any of several soil fungi.
- dampishness — the quality of being dampish