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13-letter words containing p, a, e, d

  • gradient post — a small white post beside a railway line at a point where the gradient changes having arms set at angles representing the gradients
  • grand drapery — a valance across the proscenium arch, forming part of the decorative frame for the stage.
  • grand opening — celebratory first-day event
  • grand prairie — a city in NE Texas.
  • grandparental — Of or relating to a grandparent.
  • gunpowder tea — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
  • haphazardness — characterized by lack of order or planning, by irregularity, or by randomness; determined by or dependent on chance; aimless.
  • hardware shop — a shop that sells metal tools and implements and mechanical equipment and components, etc
  • hedge sparrow — the dunnock.
  • heptadecanoic — as in heptadecanoic acid, a saturated fatty acid, aka margaric acid
  • heptaselenide — (chemistry) any selenide containing seven selenium atoms in each molecule.
  • hermaphrodism — the condition of being a hermaphrodite.
  • hermaphrodite — an individual in which reproductive organs of both sexes are present. Compare pseudohermaphrodite.
  • hermaphrodyte — (archaic) alternative spelling of hermaphrodite.
  • herod agrippa — (Julius Agrippa) c10 b.c.–a.d. 44, king of Judea 41–44 (grandson of Herod the Great).
  • herod antipas — died after a.d. 39, ruler of Galilee, a.d. 4–39: ordered the execution of John the Baptist and participated in the trial of Jesus.
  • hub-and-spoke — of or designating a system of air transportation by which local flights carry passengers to one major regional airport where they can board long-distance or other local flights for their final destinations.
  • humboldt peak — a mountain in S Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo range. 14,064 feet (4290 meters).
  • humped cattle — any of several breeds of domestic cattle developed from the Indian species Bos indicus and characterized by a hump of fat and muscle over the shoulders.
  • hunt and peck — a slow and inefficient method of typing by looking for each key separately before striking it: used by untrained typists.
  • hunt-and-peck — a method of typing while looking at the keyboard, usually using only the forefingers to press the keys
  • hydroairplane — a hydroplane.
  • hydrocephalic — of or relating to hydrocephalus.
  • hydrocephalus — an accumulation of serous fluid within the cranium, especially in infancy, due to obstruction of the movement of cerebrospinal fluid, often causing great enlargement of the head; water on the brain.
  • hydrosulphate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
  • hyperadenosis — abnormal enlargement of the glands, especially of the lymph nodes.
  • hyperboloidal — Having the shape or form of a hyperboloid.
  • hyperdactylia — the presence of extra fingers or toes.
  • hyperinflated — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
  • hypolipidemia — (medicine) A lower than normal concentration of lipids in the blood.
  • hypophloeodal — living or growing beneath bark, as insect larvae.
  • iceland poppy — any of various widely cultivated arctic poppies, esp Papaver nudicaule, with white or yellow nodding flowers
  • idealized csp — (language)   A programming language combining simply typed, call-by-name procedures with asynchronous communicating processes, assuming fair parallel execution. Idealized CSP generalises Anthony Hoare's original CSP and Kahn's networks of deterministic processes, and is closely related to Parallel Algol by Stephen Brookes of CMU. Procedures permit the encapsulation of common protocols and parallel programming idioms. Local variables and local channel declarations provide a way to delimit the scope of interference between parallel agents, and allow a form of concurrent object-oriented programming.
  • ideographical — Alternative form of ideographic.
  • imponderables — Plural form of imponderable.
  • impredicative — (of a definition) given in terms that require quantification over a range that includes that which is to be defined, as having all the properties of a great general where one of the properties as ascribed must be that property itself
  • impredictable — (nonstandard) unpredictable.
  • in deep water — the deep part of a body of water, especially an area of the ocean floor having a depth greater than 18,000 feet (5400 meters).
  • in good shape — person: fit, healthy
  • incapacitated — unable to act, respond, or the like (often used euphemistically when one is busy or otherwise occupied): He can't come to the phone now—he's incapacitated.
  • independantly — Misspelling of independently.
  • indian empire — British India and the Indian states ruled by native princes but under indirect British control: dissolved in 1947 and absorbed into India and Pakistan.
  • indispensable — absolutely necessary, essential, or requisite: an indispensable member of the staff.
  • indispensably — absolutely necessary, essential, or requisite: an indispensable member of the staff.
  • indo-european — a large, widespread family of languages, the surviving branches of which include Italic, Slavic, Baltic, Hellenic, Celtic, Germanic, and Indo-Iranian, spoken by about half the world's population: English, Spanish, German, Latin, Greek, Russian, Albanian, Lithuanian, Armenian, Persian, Hindi, and Hittite are all Indo-European languages. Compare family (def 14).
  • injured party — victim
  • inland empire — a region in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, E of the Cascade Mountains, in E Washington, NE Oregon, N Idaho, and NW Montana.
  • interpandemic — occurring between two pandemics
  • interpellated — Simple past tense and past participle of interpellate.
  • interpleaders — Plural form of interpleader.
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