11-letter words containing p, a, e, d
- companioned — Simple past tense and past participle of companion.
- companywide — Extending throughout a company.
- compensated — Simple past tense and past participle of compensate.
- complicated — If you say that something is complicated, you mean it has so many parts or aspects that it is difficult to understand or deal with.
- comradeship — Comradeship is friendship between a number of people who are doing the same work or who share the same difficulties or dangers.
- constipated — Someone who is constipated has difficulty in getting rid of solid waste from their body.
- copperheads — Plural form of copperhead.
- copyreaders — Plural form of copyreader.
- cord carpet — a type of carpet with a ribbed surface
- coup d'état — When there is a coup d'état, a group of people seize power in a country.
- coup d’état — When there is a coup d’état, a group of people seize power in a country.
- crab spider — any of a family (Thomisidae) of spiders that move sideways like crabs
- crampedness — confined or severely limited in space: cramped closets.
- credit swap — A credit swap is a kind of insurance against credit risk where a third party agrees to pay a lender if the loan defaults, in exchange for receiving payments from the lender.
- crispbreads — Plural form of crispbread.
- crowder pea — any variety of cowpea bearing pods with closely spaced seeds.
- custard pie — Custard pies are artificial pies which people sometimes throw at each other as a joke.
- custard-pie — characteristic of a type of slapstick comedy in which a performer throws a pie in another's face: popular especially in the era of vaudeville and early silent films.
- cycadophyte — any plant belonging to the phylum Cycadophyta
- cyclopaedia — (archaic) The circle or compass of the arts and sciences (originally, of the seven so-called liberal arts and sciences); circle of human knowledge.
- damp course — A damp course is a layer of waterproof material which is put into the bottom of the outside wall of a building to prevent moisture from rising.
- dampishness — the quality of being dampish
- dapple-gray — gray spotted with darker gray
- dapple-grey — a horse with a grey coat having spots of darker colour
- data packet — packet
- datum plane — the horizontal plane from which heights and depths are calculated
- day-tripper — A day-tripper is someone who goes on a day trip.
- de-emphasis — a reduction in emphasis: There has been de-emphasis on athletic activities at the school.
- deadpanning — Present participle of deadpan.
- dealerships — Plural form of dealership.
- decapitated — With the head removed.
- decapitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decapitate.
- decapitator — One who decapitates.
- decapsulate — to remove a capsule from (a part or organ, esp the kidney)
- deccan hemp — kenaf.
- decrepitate — to heat (a substance, such as a salt) until it emits a crackling sound or until this sound stops
- deduplicate — to remove (duplicated material) from a system
- deemphasize — to place less emphasis upon; reduce in importance, size, scope, etc.: The university de-emphasized intercollegiate football.
- deep throat — an anonymous source of secret information
- deep-seated — A deep-seated problem, feeling, or belief is difficult to change because its causes have been there for a long time.
- delapidated — Misspelling of dilapidated.
- delipidated — Simple past tense and past participle of delipidate.
- delors plan — a plan for closer European union, originated by Jacques Delors, President of the European Commission (1985–94)
- delphically — in an ambiguous manner; obscurely
- demand-pull — designating or having to do with a form of inflation in which prices are driven up by an excess demand for goods and services, relative to their supply
- demob-happy — feeling elated in anticipation of demobilization from the armed forces
- demographer — the science of vital and social statistics, as of the births, deaths, diseases, marriages, etc., of populations.
- demographic — Demographic means relating to or concerning demography.
- dental lisp — a speech defect consisting in pronouncing s and z like or nearly like the th- sounds of thin and this, respectively.
- dental pulp — pulp (def 4).