10-letter words containing p, a, i, n
- curtain-up — the moment when the curtain is raised and a play or similar show begins
- cynophilia — a love of dogs
- cynophobia — an irrational fear of dogs
- data point — a single fact or piece of information; a datum: Other data points, such as crime statistics, are available from the state government.
- datapoints — Plural form of datapoint.
- dauphiness — dauphine.
- dauphinois — (of potatoes or other vegetables) sliced and cooked in milk, typically with a topping of cheese.
- deaconship — (in hierarchical churches) a member of the clerical order next below that of a priest.
- dead point — dead center
- depantsing — to remove the trousers from, as a joke or punishment.
- depilation — to remove the hair from (hides, skin, etc.).
- depurating — Present participle of depurate.
- depuration — The action or process of freeing something of impurities.
- deputation — A deputation is a small group of people who have been asked to speak to someone on behalf of a larger group of people, especially in order to make a complaint.
- despairing — marked by or resulting from despair; hopeless or desperate
- despawning — Present participle of despawn.
- diaphanous — Diaphanous cloth is very thin and almost transparent.
- diaphoneme — (linguistics) An abstract phonological unit that represents collectively the dialectal variants of a phoneme.
- diaphonics — The doctrine of refracted sound; diacoustics.
- diaphonous — Misspelling of diaphanous.
- dictaphone — a tape recorder designed for recording dictation and later reproducing it for typing
- didelphian — of or relating to an animal in the Didelphia subclass of mammals
- diophantus — 3rd century ad, Greek mathematician, noted for his treatise on the theory of numbers, Arithmetica
- diphenamid — a selective preemergence herbicide, C 16 H 17 ON, used to control weed growth on lawns and various croplands.
- dipsomania — an irresistible, typically periodic craving for alcoholic drink.
- disappoint — to fail to fulfill the expectations or wishes of: His gross ingratitude disappointed us.
- discrepant — (usually of two or more objects, accounts, findings etc.) differing; disagreeing; inconsistent: discrepant accounts.
- dispairing — Present participle of dispair.
- dispanding — Present participle of dispand.
- disparency — (proscribed) A significant discrepancy.
- disparting — Present participle of dispart.
- dispassion — the state or quality of being unemotional or emotionally uninvolved.
- dispensary — a place where something is dispensed, especially medicines.
- dispersant — something that disperses.
- displacing — Present participle of displace.
- displaying — to show or exhibit; make visible: to display a sign.
- dispondaic — of or relating to a dispondee
- disputants — Plural form of disputant.
- disruptant — That which disrupts.
- dognapping — Kidnapping or stealing of a dog owned by someone else.
- dopexamine — A \u03b21- and \u03b22-adrenergic receptor agonist.
- drain plug — A drain plug is a plug which is taken out to allow a fluid to be drained from a tank such as an engine oil pan or sump.
- drainpipes — a large pipe that carries away the discharge of waste pipes, soil pipes, etc.
- drainspout — downspout.
- duennaship — The role or status of duenna.
- east point — a city in N Georgia, near Atlanta.
- eigenspace — (linear algebra) A set of the eigenvectors associated with a particular eigenvalue, together with the zero vector.
- el capitan — a mountain in E central California, in the Sierra Nevada: a monolith with a precipice rising over 1100 m (3600 ft) above the floor of the Yosemite Valley. Height: 2306 m (7564 ft)
- emancipate — Set free, esp. from legal, social, or political restrictions.
- emancipist — (Australia, historical) In penal colonies of early Australia, a convict who had been pardoned for good conduct; sometimes inclusively a convict whose sentence had completed, though one such was more usually called an expiree.