9-letter words containing n, p, d
- lindy hop — Also called lindy hop, Lindy Hop. an energetic jitterbug dance.
- line drop — the decrease in voltage between two points on an electric line, often caused by resistance or leakage along the line.
- lophodont — having molar teeth with crowns in the form of transverse ridges.
- ma-and-pa — mom-and-pop.
- madperson — (gender-neutral) A madman or madwoman.
- manspread — (of a man) to sit with one's legs far apart, taking up too much space on a seat shared with other people: guys who manspread on the subway.
- mantispid — any neuropterous, mantislike insect of the family Mantispidae, the larvae of which are parasites in the nests of spiders or wasps.
- mappemond — a map of the world
- meropidan — any insectivorous bird of the family Meropidae
- midpoints — Plural form of midpoint.
- millponds — Plural form of millpond.
- mindscape — A mental landscape; the world of the mind.
- mine dump — a large mound of residue, esp from gold-mining operations
- misspends — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misspend.
- monkeypod — a tropical American tree, Samanea saman, of the legume family, having spreading branches and dense heads of small, pink flowers.
- monoploid — having the basic or haploid number of chromosomes.
- monopodes — Plural form of monopode.
- monopodia — 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.
- mophandle — The handle of a mop.
- name-drop — mention famous person to impress
- nauplioid — of or relating to the first stage in the development of a freshly hatched nauplius larva
- neap tide — either of the two tides that occur at the first or last quarter of the moon when the tide-generating forces of the sun and moon oppose each other and produce the smallest rise and fall in tidal level
- nephridia — the excretory organ of many invertebrates, consisting of a tubule with one end opening into the body cavity and the other opening into a pore at the body surface.
- nitpicked — Simple past tense and past participle of nitpick.
- nonplaced — Not assigned a place.
- nonplused — to render utterly perplexed; puzzle completely.
- nonposted — Not having been posted (in various senses).
- nonpulsed — Not pulsed.
- notopodia — Plural form of notopodium.
- nymphalid — a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae, comprising the brush-footed butterflies.
- on parade — on display
- ondograph — an instrument for graphically recording oscillatory variations, as in alternating currents.
- onopordum — (botany) Any of the genus Onopordum of asteraceous thistles.
- open door — the policy of admitting people of all nationalities or ethnic groups to a country upon equal terms, as for immigration.
- open mind — receptive attitude
- open side — the side of the scrum on which the majority of the backs are ranged
- open-door — If a country or organization has an open-door policy towards people or goods, it allows them to come there freely, without any restrictions.
- open-eyed — having the eyes open.
- opiniated — Obsolete form of opinionated.
- opinioned — having an opinion, especially of a specified kind.
- opium den — 19th-century place of drug taking
- opsonized — Simple past tense and past participle of opsonize.
- overspend — to spend more than one can afford: Receiving a small inheritance, she began to overspend alarmingly.
- pad stone — a stone template.
- pademelon — any of several small Australian wallabies, especially of the genus Thylogale.
- paderborn — a city in North Rhine–Westphalia, in NW Germany.
- padronism — a system of exploitative work controlled by a padrone
- paginated — to indicate the sequence of pages in (a book, manuscript, etc.) by placing numbers or other characters on each leaf; to number the pages of.
- pair bond — the exclusive relationship formed between a male and a female, esp in some species of animals and birds during courtship and breeding
- pair-bond — (of a mating couple) to form and maintain a pair bond.