7-letter words containing p, d, a
- lymphad — an ancient rowing boat with one mast
- made-up — concocted; falsely fabricated or invented: a made-up story.
- mandapa — (in south India, architecture) A pillared hall or porch fronting a Hindu temple. It may be attached or detached from the building.
- medigap — (sometimes initial capital letter) private health insurance that supplements coverage for people already covered by government insurance.
- megapod — Megapode.
- mid-cap — designating a company, or a mutual fund that invests in companies, with a market capitalization of between $1 billion and $5 billion.
- mindmap — Alternative spelling of mind map.
- mispaid — Simple past tense and past participle of mispay.
- mophead — Alternative spelling of mop head.
- mud map — a map drawn on the ground with a stick, or any other roughly drawn map
- mudflap — Also called mud flap. splash guard.
- mudpack — a pastelike preparation, as one consisting of fuller's earth, astringents, etc., used on the face as a cosmetic restorative.
- nonpaid — a simple past tense and past participle of pay1 .
- notepad — a pad of blank pages for writing notes.
- np-hard — (complexity) A set or property of computational search problems. A problem is NP-hard if solving it in polynomial time would make it possible to solve all problems in class NP in polynomial time. Some NP-hard problems are also in NP (these are called "NP-complete"), some are not. If you could reduce an NP problem to an NP-hard problem and then solve it in polynomial time, you could solve all NP problems. See also computational complexity.
- oedipal — of, characterized by, or resulting from the Oedipus complex.
- opaqued — not transparent or translucent; impenetrable to light; not allowing light to pass through.
- operand — a quantity upon which a mathematical operation is performed.
- opiated — Simple past tense and past participle of opiate.
- oppidan — of a town; urban.
- pad out — written piece: add words
- pad saw — a small compass saw with a pad.
- paddies — a rice field.
- padding — a dull, muffled sound, as of footsteps on the ground.
- paddler — a short, flat bladed oar for propelling and steering a canoe or small boat, usually held by both hands and moved more or less through a vertical arc.
- paddock — Archaic. a frog or toad.
- padella — a type of candle
- padlock — a portable or detachable lock with a pivoted or sliding shackle that can be passed through a link, ring, staple, or the like.
- padrino — a godfather.
- padrone — a master; boss.
- padroni — a master; boss.
- paducah — a city in W Kentucky, at the junction of the Tennessee and Ohio rivers.
- pagurid — a pagurian.
- paid-in — having paid the dues, initiation fees, etc., required by an organization or association.
- paid-up — paid in full, as of the present or of a specified date: a paid-up membership.
- painted — reproduced or represented in paint: a painted image.
- palaced — having palaces
- paladin — any one of the 12 legendary peers or knightly champions in attendance on Charlemagne.
- palsied — paralyzed; unable to move or control certain muscles.
- paludal — of or relating to marshes.
- pan lid — the lid of a pan such as a saucepan
- pandani — a tropical, palm-like tree of Tasmania, Richea pandanifolia: family Ericaceae
- pandean — of or relating to the god Pan.
- pandect — pandects, a complete body or code of laws.
- pandora — Classical Mythology. the first woman, created by Hephaestus, endowed by the gods with all the graces and treacherously presented to Epimetheus along with a box (originally a jar) in which Prometheus had confined all the evils that could trouble humanity. As the gods had anticipated, Pandora gave in to her curiosity and opened the box, allowing the evils to escape, thereby frustrating the efforts of Prometheus. In some versions, the box contained blessings, all of which escaped but hope.
- pandore — an obsolete musical instrument resembling the guitar.
- pandour — History/Historical. a member of a local militia in Croatia, formed as a regiment in the Austrian army in the 18th century and noted for its ruthlessness and cruelty.
- pandrop — a hard mint-flavoured sweet
- pandura — a Graeco-Roman stringed instrument, similar to a lute
- pandure — bandore.