10-letter words containing p, d, a
- rapid-fire — characterized by, delivered, or occurring in rapid succession: rapid-fire questions; rapid-fire events.
- rapidwrite — (language, tool) A method for translating set of abbreviations into the much more verbose COBOL code.
- rawalpindi — a city in N Pakistan: former provisional capital.
- re-planned — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- read up on — If you read up on a subject, you read a lot about it so that you become informed about it.
- readership — the people who read or are thought to read a particular book, newspaper, magazine, etc.: The periodical has a dwindling readership.
- readoption — the adoption of something or someone again
- recarpeted — a heavy fabric, commonly of wool or nylon, for covering floors.
- red carpet — a red strip of carpet placed on the ground for high-ranking dignitaries to walk on when entering or leaving a building, vehicle, or the like.
- red packet — a sum of money folded inside red paper and given at the Chinese New Year to unmarried younger relatives
- redispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- repeatedly — done, made, or said again and again: repeated attempts.
- reply card — a usually postage-paid postcard or coupon that can be mailed back to the sender to place an order, request information, or the like.
- reply-paid — having the cost of sending a reply (of a letter, etc) prepaid by the sender
- reprepared — to put in proper condition or readiness: to prepare a patient for surgery.
- reprimands — a severe reproof or rebuke, especially a formal one by a person in authority.
- reproached — to find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame; censure.
- repudiable — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
- rhapsodist — a person who rhapsodizes.
- rhapsodize — to talk with extravagant enthusiasm.
- rhodophane — the red colour found in the inner cones of the retina in animals
- rhodoplast — a plastid found in red algae, containing red pigment as well as chlorophyll
- rice paddy — a field planted with rice
- road apple — a piece of horse manure on or at the side of a road.
- ropedancer — a person who walks across or performs acrobatics upon a rope stretched at some height above the floor or ground.
- rose aphid — a dark green aphid, Macrosiphum rosae, that feeds on roses and related plants.
- round tape — (storage, jargon) Industry-standard 1/2-inch magnetic tape (7- or 9-track) on traditional circular reels. See macrotape, opposite: square tape.
- sand perch — squirrelfish.
- sand viper — hognose snake.
- sandgroper — a nickname for a Western Australian
- sandpapery — of or suggesting the grating sound of sandpaper rubbing against wood or the rough texture of sandpaper.
- sappanwood — a dyewood yielding a red color, produced by a small, East Indian tree, Caesalpinia sappan, of the legume family.
- scapulated — (of a raven) with white feathers across the scapular region
- scindapsus — any plant of the tropical Asiatic climbing genus Scindapsus, typically stem rooting, esp S. aureus and S. pictus, grown as greenhouse or house plants for their leathery heart-shaped variegated leaves: family Araceae
- scorpaenid — belonging or pertaining to the Scorpaenidae, a family of marine fishes with spiny fins, including the rockfishes, scorpionfishes, and lionfishes.
- scrapegood — a stingy person; a miser
- scratchpad — pad of paper for rough notes
- sea spider — any member of the arthropod class Pycnogonida, marine invertebrates with eight long walking legs attached to a small body consisting of a cephalothorax and vestigial abdomen.
- seed pearl — a pearl weighing less than ¼ grain.
- seed plant — a seed-bearing plant; spermatophyte.
- self-paced — (of an educational system, course, etc.) done or designed to be accomplished at the student's own speed: self-paced instruction.
- senna pods — the dried fruits of any of these plants, used as a cathartic and laxative
- septicidal — (of a capsule) dehiscing lengthwise along a septum.
- shadow pin — a vertical pin set in an azimuth instrument or at the center of a compass card, indicating by the direction of its shadow the azimuth of the sun.
- sharp-eyed — having keen sight or perception.
- sheepshead — a deep-bodied, black-banded food fish, Archosargus probatocephalus, living along the Atlantic coast of the U.S.
- ship-bread — hardtack.
- shiplapped — of, related to, or resembling shiplap
- side plate — a small plate used for bread or other accompaniments to a meal
- sleepyhead — a sleepy person.