9-letter words containing n, p, d
- expand on — If you expand on or expand upon something, you give more information or details about it when you write or talk about it.
- expanding — Present participle of expand.
- expediant — Misspelling of expedient.
- expedient — (of an action) Convenient and practical, although possibly improper or immoral.
- expending — Present participle of expend.
- explained — Simple past tense and past participle of explain.
- explanted — Simple past tense and past participle of explant.
- exploding — Burst or shatter violently and noisily as a result of rapid combustion, decomposition, excessive internal pressure, or other process, typically scattering fragments widely.
- expounded — Simple past tense and past participle of expound.
- expounder — A person who expounds, explains.
- fish pond — small lake for keeping fish
- fishponds — Plural form of fishpond.
- fishpound — a submerged net used in commercial fishing for capturing fish.
- gippsland — a fertile region of SE Australia, in SE Victoria, extending east along the coast from Melbourne to the New South Wales border. Area: 35 200 sq km (13 600 sq miles)
- godolphin — Sidney, 1st Earl of, 1645–1712, English statesman and financier.
- godparent — a godfather or godmother.
- goldspink — a goldfinch
- gowdspink — the goldfinch
- grand pre — a village in central Nova Scotia, on Minas Basin: locale of Longfellow's Evangeline.
- grandpapa — grandfather.
- guard pin — (in a lever escapement) a pin on the lever, meeting the safety roller in such a way as to prevent the lever from overbanking.
- gulp down — food, drink: swallow quickly
- gunpowder — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
- hand-pick — to pick by hand.
- hand-play — the practice of fighting with fists
- handclaps — Plural form of handclap.
- handclasp — a gripping of hands by two or more people, as in greeting, parting, making a commitment, or expressing affection.
- handgrips — Plural form of handgrip.
- handicaps — Plural form of handicap.
- handphone — A cordless or cellular phone.
- handpiece — The part of a dental drill, surgical instrument, etc. that is held in the hand.
- handplant — (skateboarding) A move in which the skater balances on his hand after skating up to the top of a halfpipe.
- handpress — a printing press that is manipulated by hand
- handprint — an impression or mark made with the palm and fingers on a surface.
- hands up! — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- handshape — (in sign language) the held position of the hand and fingers in producing a particular sign.
- handspike — a bar used as a lever.
- handstamp — an implement for stamping an impression
- hard porn — hard-core pornography.
- hard-spun — (of yarn) compactly twisted in spinning.
- harden up — to tighten the sheets of a sailing vessel so as to prevent luffing
- harpooned — Simple past tense and past participle of harpoon.
- headphone — Audio. a headset designed for use with a stereo system.
- hedyphane — a white or yellow mineral with elongated crystals similar to mimetite, chiefly found in Sweden
- henpecked — browbeaten, bullied, or intimidated by one's wife, girlfriend, etc.: a henpecked husband who never dared to contradict his wife.
- hipped on — greatly interested or preoccupied, almost to an irrational extent; obsessed (usually followed by on): He's hipped on learning to play the tuba.
- hipped-on — greatly interested or preoccupied, almost to an irrational extent; obsessed (usually followed by on): He's hipped on learning to play the tuba.
- horsepond — A pond for watering horses.
- hypnodiet — a diet involving the use of hypnosis to change one's attitude to food
- hypnoidal — characterizing a state that resembles mild hypnosis but that is usually induced by other than hypnotic means.