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10-letter words containing p, d, s

  • postmodern — noting or pertaining to architecture of the late 20th century, appearing in the 1960s, that consciously uses complex forms, fantasy, and allusions to historic styles, in contrast to the austere forms and emphasis on utility of standard modern architecture.
  • posturized — to posture; pose.
  • pound sign — a symbol (£) for “pound” or “pounds” as a monetary unit of the United Kingdom.
  • powderless — lacking powder, not involving or containing powder
  • pre-advise — to give counsel to; offer an opinion or suggestion as worth following: I advise you to be cautious.
  • pre-design — to prepare the preliminary sketch or the plans for (a work to be executed), especially to plan the form and structure of: to design a new bridge.
  • pre-leased — to sign or grant a lease on (a building, apartment, etc.) in advance of construction: Agents have preleased more than 60 percent of the new building.
  • pre-models — a standard or example for imitation or comparison.
  • precedents — Law. a legal decision or form of proceeding serving as an authoritative rule or pattern in future similar or analogous cases.
  • predacious — predatory; rapacious.
  • predecease — to die before (another person, the occurrence of an event, etc.).
  • predeposit — to place for safekeeping or in trust, especially in a bank account: He deposited his paycheck every Friday.
  • predescent — the act, process, or fact of moving from a higher to a lower position. Synonyms: falling, sinking; fall, drop.
  • predestine — to destine in advance; foreordain; predetermine: He seemed predestined for the ministry.
  • predestiny — predestination; pre-determined destiny
  • prediscuss — to consider or examine by argument, comment, etc.; talk over or write about, especially to explore solutions; debate: to discuss the proposed law on taxes.
  • predispose — to give an inclination or tendency to beforehand; make susceptible: Genetic factors may predispose human beings to certain metabolic diseases.
  • prednisone — an analogue of cortisone, C 2 1 H 2 6 O 5 , used as an anti-inflammatory, immunosuppressive, and antineoplastic in the treatment of various diseases.
  • preimposed — imposed beforehand
  • prejudices — an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason.
  • preludious — characteristic of a prelude
  • prescribed — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
  • preshipped — a vessel, especially a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines.
  • presidency — the office, function, or term of office of a president.
  • press card — a card issued to journalists, certifying they work for the press, and authorizing them to attend certain events, venues, etc
  • press lord — press baron.
  • press stud — snap fastener.
  • pressboard — a kind of millboard or pasteboard.
  • prestamped — stamped in advance
  • presumedly — to take for granted, assume, or suppose: I presume you're tired after your drive.
  • priesthood — the condition or office of a priest.
  • princedoms — the position, rank, or dignity of a prince.
  • prismatoid — a polyhedron having its vertices lying on two parallel planes.
  • process id — process identifier
  • prodigious — extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.: a prodigious research grant.
  • progressed — a movement toward a goal or to a further or higher stage: the progress of a student toward a degree.
  • prophesied — to foretell or predict.
  • proplastid — a plant cell organelle that a plastid develops from
  • proscribed — condemned or prohibited
  • prose edda — either of two old Icelandic literary works, one a collection of poems on mythical and religious subjects (or) erroneously attributed to Saemund Sigfusson (c1055–1133), the other a collection of ancient Scandinavian myths and legends, rules and theories of versification, poems, etc. (or) compiled and written in part by Snorri Sturluson (1179–1241).
  • proskomide — prothesis (def 2a).
  • prospected — Usually, prospects. an apparent probability of advancement, success, profit, etc. the outlook for the future: good business prospects.
  • prostrated — to cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.
  • prudentius — Aurelius Clemens (ɔːˈriːlɪəs ˈklɛmɛnz). 348–410 ad, Latin Christian poet, born in Spain. His works include the allegory Psychomachia
  • psalmodize — to sing psalms
  • pseudimago — (of insects) a form similar to the adult, but which is not a true adult
  • pseudo-tty — (operating system)   Berkeley Unix networking device which appears to an application program as an ordinary terminal but which is in fact connected via the network to a process running on a different host or a windowing system. Pseudo-ttys have a slave half and a control half. The slave tty (/dev/ttyp*) is the device that user programs use and the control tty (/dev/ptyp*) is used by daemons to talk to the net.
  • pseudoacid — a compound that is not an acid but which undergoes certain typical reactions of an acid
  • pseudoalum — any of a class of alums in which the usual monovalent metal of a true alum is replaced by a bivalent metal
  • pseudobulb — an enlarged, aboveground portion of stem, present in many tropical orchids, in which moisture is stored.
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