10-letter words containing p, a, e, d
- stepdancer — a person who engages in stepdancing
- stepladder — a ladder having flat steps or treads in place of rungs.
- stipulated — to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of agreement (often followed by for).
- subpoenaed — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
- super band — the band of frequencies between 216 and 600 megahertz, used for cable television channels and Citizens Band.
- superadded — to add over and above; join as a further addition; add besides.
- superboard — a wooden board with exceptional properties of some kind
- supergrade — a high-level rank, Grade 16, 17, or 18, in the federal civil service.
- supplanted — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
- sweep hand — a hand, usually a second hand, centrally mounted with the minute and hour hands of a timepiece and reaching to the edge of the dial.
- swipe card — a plastic card with magnetically encoded data that is decoded when passed through a slotted electronic reader, especially for payment or identification purposes.
- syncopated — marked by syncopation: syncopated rhythm.
- tap dancer — to perform a tap dance.
- tape drive — a program-controlled device that reads data from or writes data on a magnetic tape which moves past a read-write head.
- tapestried — furnished or covered with tapestries.
- tapped out — having no ready money; broke
- ted spread — the difference in value between three-month futures contracts for Treasury bills and for Eurodollars, used to gauge the willingness of banks to lend money
- tepidarium — a warm room in Roman baths
- tetraploid — having a chromosome number that is four times the basic or haploid number.
- top drawer — the highest level in rank, excellence, or importance: a musician strictly out of the top drawer.
- top loader — a machine or appliance, as a washing machine, loaded and unloaded through an opening in the top (distinguished from front loader).
- top-drawer — the highest level in rank, excellence, or importance: a musician strictly out of the top drawer.
- top-hatted — wearing a top hat
- top-loader — a washing machine with a horizontal door in its top rather than a vertical one in its front
- top-ranked — A top-ranked sports player or team is the most successful player or team in a particular sport.
- torpedoman — a petty officer or warrant officer responsible for the maintenance, use, and repair of underwater weapons and equipment.
- transpired — to occur; happen; take place.
- tripudiate — to dance for joy
- un-made-up — not wearing make-up
- unaccepted — generally approved; usually regarded as normal, right, etc.: an accepted pronunciation of a word; an accepted theory.
- unadaptive — serving or able to adapt; showing or contributing to adaptation: the adaptive coloring of a chameleon.
- unappalled — not appalled or daunted
- unappeased — to bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment; pacify; soothe: to appease an angry king.
- unapprised — not informed or apprised of something
- unapproved — to speak or think favorably of; pronounce or consider agreeable or good; judge favorably: to approve the policies of the administration.
- unbaptized — not baptized
- uncaptured — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- uncarpeted — having no carpet
- uncompared — to examine (two or more objects, ideas, people, etc.) in order to note similarities and differences: to compare two pieces of cloth; to compare the governments of two nations.
- undampened — to make damp; moisten: to dampen a sponge.
- undepraved — not corrupted
- underpants — drawers or shorts worn under outer clothing, usually next to the skin.
- underplant — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- unexampled — unprecedented; unparalleled; unlike anything previously known: unexampled kindness; unexampled depravity.
- unexpanded — not expanded or expanded upon
- unexpiated — not expiated or atoned for
- unhampered — to hold back; hinder; impede: A steady rain hampered the progress of the work.
- unimpacted — tightly or immovably wedged in.
- unimpaired — weakened, diminished, or damaged: impaired hearing; to rebuild an impaired bridge.
- unimparted — not communicated (to another person)