10-letter words containing p, d, s, a
- landscaped — Simple past tense and past participle of landscape.
- landscaper — a gardener who does landscape gardening.
- landscapes — Plural form of landscape.
- lapidaries — Plural form of lapidary.
- lapidarist — Also, lapidist [lap-i-dist] /ˈlæp ɪ dɪst/ (Show IPA). a worker who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones.
- lapidifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lapidify.
- leadership — the position or function of a leader, a person who guides or directs a group: He managed to maintain his leadership of the party despite heavy opposition. Synonyms: administration, management, directorship, control, governorship, stewardship, hegemony.
- leadplants — Plural form of leadplant.
- leopardess — a female leopard.
- lespedezas — Plural form of lespedeza.
- lisp-linda — P. Dourish, U Edinburgh 1988.
- madrepores — Plural form of madrepore.
- mediascape — Communications media as a whole.
- mediaspeak — The jargon used by the media.
- midshipman — a student, as at the U.S. Naval Academy, in training for commission as ensign in the Navy or second lieutenant in the Marine Corps. Compare cadet (def 2).
- 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.
- monospaced — Simple past tense and past participle of monospace.
- muckspread — to muckrake
- outspreads — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outspread.
- overspread — to spread or diffuse over: A blush of embarrassment overspread his face.
- packsaddle — a saddle specifically designed for holding or supporting the load on a pack animal.
- 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
- 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
- palisander — Brazilian rosewood.
- pandectist — a German law student who followed the Pandects of Justinian
- pantsuited — wearing a pantsuit
- paradisaic — paradisiacal.
- paradisean — of the genus Paradisaea (birds of paradise)
- paradisiac — of, like, or befitting paradise.
- parasitoid — an organism that practices parasitoidism.
- parmenides — flourished c450 b.c, Greek Eleatic philosopher.
- parodistic — parodic.
- pasargadae — an ancient ruined city in S Iran, NE of Persepolis: an early capital of ancient Persia; tomb of Cyrus the Great.
- paso doble — a quick, light march often played at bullfights.
- pasquinade — a satire or lampoon, especially one posted in a public place.
- paste mold — a mold lined with a moist carbonized paste, for shaping glass as it is blown.
- pasteboard — a stiff, firm board made of sheets of paper pasted or layers of paper pulp pressed together.
- patchstand — a small tazza.
- patronised — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
- pdsa cycle — Plan, Do, See, Approve (from Japan).
- peakedness — pale and drawn in appearance so as to suggest illness or stress; wan and sickly.
- pebbledash — to cover with a finish for external walls consisting of small stones embedded in plaster
- pedagogics — the science or art of teaching or education; pedagogy.