11-letter words containing p, d, s, a
- photostated — a camera for making facsimile copies of documents, drawings, etc., in the form of paper negatives on which the positions of lines, objects, etc., in the originals are maintained.
- piebaldness — having patches of black and white or of other colors; parti-colored.
- piss around — If you say that someone pisses around or pisses about, you mean they waste a lot of time doing unimportant things.
- piston land — A piston land is a raised area of a piston between piston rings.
- plagiarised — to take and use by plagiarism.
- plasmodesma — any of many minute strands of cytoplasm that extend through plant cell walls and connect adjoining cells.
- plasticated — covered with a layer of plastic
- polyandrist — a woman who practices or favors polyandry.
- polyandrous — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or practicing polyandry; polyandric.
- pond-skater — any of various heteropterous insects of the family Gerrididae, esp Gerris lacustris (common pond-skater), having a slender hairy body and long hairy legs with which they skim about on the surface of ponds
- postal card — a card sold by the post office with a stamp already printed on it.
- postal code — British. postcode.
- postholiday — occurring after a holiday
- postlanding — occurring after a landing (of an aircraft, shuttle, etc)
- pre-address — a speech or written statement, usually formal, directed to a particular group of persons: the president's address on the state of the economy.
- preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
- predeceased — to die before (another person, the occurrence of an event, etc.).
- prediabetes — a condition in which carbohydrate metabolism is mildly abnormal but other criteria indicating diabetes mellitus are absent.
- predispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- predisposal — to give an inclination or tendency to beforehand; make susceptible: Genetic factors may predispose human beings to certain metabolic diseases.
- predynastic — of, relating to, or belonging to a time or period before the first dynasty of a nation, especially the period in Egypt before c3200 b.c.
- prendergast — Maurice Brazil [braz-uh l] /ˈbræz əl/ (Show IPA), 1859–1924, U.S. painter.
- present-day — current; modern: present-day techniques; present-day English.
- prestandard — something considered by an authority or by general consent as a basis of comparison; an approved model.
- prison yard — a piece of enclosed ground attached to a prison, where prisoners may take exercise at certain times
- propagandas — information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
- prosauropod — a herbivorous dinosaur of the Triassic and early Jurassic periods
- protandrous — (of hermaphrodite or monoecious plants) maturing the anthers before the stigma
- pseudoedema — effusion of serous fluid into the interstices of cells in tissue spaces or into body cavities.
- pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
- pseudologia — a psychological condition in which a patient tells elaborate, false stories believing them to be true
- pseudomonad — any of various bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas
- pseudomonas — any of several rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas, certain species of which are pathogenic for plants and animals.
- pseudopodal — (of protozoans) belonging to the former division Pseudopoda
- pseudopodia — pseudopod.
- psychedelia — the realm or artifacts of psychedelic drugs, art, writings, or the like.
- psychodelia — the production of, or the culture associated with, psychedelic experiences
- psychodrama — a method of group psychotherapy in which participants take roles in improvisational dramatizations of emotionally charged situations.
- pulse radar — a radar system using pulse modulation
- push around — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- put down as — If you put someone or something down as a particular type of person or thing, you consider that they are that thing.
- quadruplets — Plural form of quadruplet.
- radarscopes — Plural form of radarscope.
- rapid chess — a game of chess played within a fixed amount of time, usually 30 minutes per player for all moves.
- red snapper — any of several snappers of the genus Lutjanus, especially L. campechanus, a large food fish of the Gulf of Mexico.
- relandscape — to landscape again after a previous landscaping
- rhapsodical — extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic.
- rising damp — moisture problem affecting walls
- saddle soap — a soap, usually consisting chiefly of Castile, used for cleaning and preserving saddles and other leather articles.
- safe period — an interval of the menstrual cycle when fertilization is considered to be least likely, usually a number of days prior and subsequent to the onset of menstruation.