10-letter words containing p, d, a
- mindscapes — Plural form of mindscape.
- mis-shaped — to shape badly or wrongly; deform.
- misapplied — mistakenly applied; used wrongly.
- misplanned — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- mispleaded — Simple past tense and past participle of misplead.
- modula-3pi — Machine-independent intermediate language for compilation of Modula-3*. "Modula-3pi Language Definition", E.A. Heinz, TR, U Karlsruhe 1993.
- monopodial — (botany) Having a monopodium or a single and continuous axis, as a birch twig or a cornstalk.
- monospaced — Simple past tense and past participle of monospace.
- muckspread — to muckrake
- mudcapping — the process or act of blasting a rock surface with explosives
- multipaned — having or comprising more than one pane, esp of glass
- named pipe — (operating system) A Unix pipe with a filename created using the "mknod" command. Named pipes allow unrelated processes to communicate with each other whereas the normal (un-named) kind can only be used by processes which are parent and child or siblings (forked from the same parent).
- nephridial — Of or pertaining to a nephridium.
- neuropodia — Plural form of neuropodium.
- octaploidy — the fact of having or containing eight groups or sets of chromosomes
- on the pad — a cushionlike mass of soft material used for comfort, protection, or stuffing.
- op-ed page — a newspaper page devoted to signed articles by commentators, essayists, humorists, etc., of varying viewpoints: the Op-Ed of today's New York Times.
- open-faced — having a frank or ingenuous face.
- openhanded — generous; liberal: openhanded hospitality.
- oropendola — any of several birds of the genus Gymnostinops, related to crows and feeding primarily on fruit and nectar, noted especially for their hanging nests.
- orphanhood — a child who has lost both parents through death, or, less commonly, one parent.
- outspreads — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outspread.
- overexpand — to expand excessively
- overlapped — to lap over (something else or each other); extend over and cover a part of; imbricate.
- overparted — (of a performer) having been cast in a role that is beyond his or her abilities
- overplaced — placed above
- overspread — to spread or diffuse over: A blush of embarrassment overspread his face.
- pack drill — a military punishment by which the offender is made to march about carrying a full pack of equipment
- packed out — If a place is packed out, it is very full of people.
- packsaddle — a saddle specifically designed for holding or supporting the load on a pack animal.
- packthread — a strong thread or twine for sewing or tying up packages.
- padded bra — cushioned breast-support garment
- paddington — a former residential borough of Greater London, England, now part of Westminster.
- paddle box — a structure enclosing a paddle wheel.
- paddleball — a game played on a handball court following the same basic rules as handball, but in which players use short-handled, perforated paddles to hit a ball resembling a tennis ball.
- paddleboat — a boat propelled by a paddle wheel.
- paddlefish — a large ganoid fish, Polyodon spathula, of the Mississippi River and its larger tributaries, having a long, flat, paddlelike snout.
- paddy last — the last person in a race or competition
- paddymelon — any of several small Australian wallabies, especially of the genus Thylogale.
- paddywhack — Informal. a spanking.
- paderewski — Ignace [French ee-nyas] /French iˈnyas/ (Show IPA), or Ignacy Jan [Polish ig-nah-tsi yahn] /Polish ɪgˈnɑ tsɪ yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1860–1941, Polish pianist, composer, patriot, and statesman.
- padma shri — (in India) an award for distinguished service in any field
- paedeutics — the study of teaching
- paedophile — an adult who is sexually attracted to young children.
- paedotribe — (in ancient Greece) a gymnastics teacher
- pale-faced — having a pale face
- palindrome — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
- palisander — Brazilian rosewood.
- palletized — to place (materials) upon pallets for handling or moving.
- palmatifid — displaying palmate characteristics