11-letter words containing p, a, n, d
- drop a hint — If you drop a hint, you give a hint or say something in a casual way.
- drop a line — send a message
- drop anchor — secure a ship in place
- drop astern — to fall back to the stern (of another vessel)
- drop cannon — a shot in which the first object ball joins or gathers with the cue ball and the other object ball, esp at the top of the table
- dues-paying — gaining experience, especially by hard and often unpleasant or uncongenial work: He spent his dues-paying years as a cocktail pianist.
- duplex scan — a scan that uses sound waves to show how well the blood is flowing in arteries
- duplicating — Present participle of duplicate.
- duplication — an act or instance of duplicating.
- dynamograph — a device for registering the quantity of force applied
- dyspareunia — painful coitus.
- emancipated — Free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberated.
- encephaloid — resembling the brain or brain matter
- encompassed — Simple past tense and past participle of encompass.
- endophagous — relating to endophagy
- endoplasmic — (cytology) of, or relating to endoplasm.
- epaminondas — ?418–362 bc, Greek Theban statesman and general: defeated the Spartans at Leuctra (371) and Mantinea (362) and restored power in Greece to Thebes
- epoxidation — (organic chemistry) Any reaction that converts a compound (especially an alkene) into an epoxide.
- expandables — Plural form of expandable.
- expendables — Plural form of expendable.
- explanandum — That which is to be explained.
- fernando po — a former name of Bioko.
- flank speed — the maximum possible speed of a ship.
- flap-dragon — an old game in which the players snatch raisins, plums, etc., out of burning brandy, and eat them.
- flood plain — a nearly flat plain along the course of a stream or river that is naturally subject to flooding.
- floodplains — Plural form of floodplain.
- frankpledge — a system of dividing a community into tithings or groups of ten men, each member of which was responsible for the conduct of the other members of his group and for the assurance that a member charged with a breach of the law would be produced at court.
- garden path — paved walkway
- garden pink — the plant Dianthus plumarius
- garden-path — noting or pertaining to a sentence that is easily parsed incorrectly because its beginning suggests it has an interpretation that it clearly does not have.
- giant panda — panda (def 1).
- glide plane — a symmetry element of a space group such that a reflection of the lattice with respect to the plane and a translation of the lattice parallel to the plane bring the lattice back to its original position.
- gonadotrope — a gonadotropic substance.
- grade point — Education. a numerical equivalent to a received letter grade, usually 0 for F, 1 for D, 2 for C, 3 for B, and 4 for A, that is multiplied by the number of credits for the course: used to compute a grade point average.
- grand opera — a serious, usually tragic, opera in which most of the text is set to music.
- grand piano — a piano having the frame supported horizontally on three legs.
- grandnephew — a son of one's nephew or niece.
- grandparent — a parent of a parent.
- ground plan — Also called groundplot. the plan of a floor of a building.
- hammer pond — an artificial pond for maintaining a head of water at a water mill.
- hand puppet — a puppet made of a hollow head sewn or glued to material that fits over the hand, concealing the fingers and thumb, which manipulate it.
- hand-picked — to pick by hand.
- handicapped — Sometimes Offensive. physically or mentally disabled.
- handicapper — Horse Racing. a racetrack official or employee who assigns the weight a horse must carry in a race. a person employed, as by a newspaper, to make predictions on the outcomes of horse races.
- handpicking — to pick by hand.
- handsprings — Plural form of handspring.
- handyperson — a person who is practiced at doing maintenance work.
- hard porn's — hard-core pornography.
- hardscaping — Hardscape.
- heating pad — a flexible fabric-covered pad containing insulated electrical heating elements for applying heat especially to the body.