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11-letter words containing p, d, s

  • predecessor — parent
  • predesigned — 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.
  • predestined — to destine in advance; foreordain; predetermine: He seemed predestined for the ministry.
  • prediabetes — a condition in which carbohydrate metabolism is mildly abnormal but other criteria indicating diabetes mellitus are absent.
  • predigested — to treat (food) by an artificial process analogous to digestion so that, when taken into the body, it is more easily digestible.
  • 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.
  • predisposed — 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.
  • prefinished — coated or treated before use or sale: prefinished wood.
  • prendergast — Maurice Brazil [braz-uh l] /ˈbræz əl/ (Show IPA), 1859–1924, U.S. painter.
  • preschedule — taking place ahead of schedule
  • prescindent — tending to prescind
  • preselected — to select in advance; choose beforehand.
  • present-day — current; modern: present-day techniques; present-day English.
  • pressurized — brought to and maintained at an atmospheric pressure higher than that of the surroundings: cooking with pressurized steam.
  • prestandard — something considered by an authority or by general consent as a basis of comparison; an approved model.
  • prestressed — (of steel cables, wires, etc, of a precast concrete part) that has been prestressed
  • prioritised — to arrange or do in order of priority: learning to prioritize our assignments.
  • prison yard — a piece of enclosed ground attached to a prison, where prisoners may take exercise at certain times
  • proceedings — a particular action or course or manner of action.
  • productions — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
  • professedly — allegedly; pretendedly: He is only professedly poor.
  • prompt side — the part of the stage that in the U.S. is to the right and in Britain to the left as one faces the audience. Abbreviation: P.S.
  • 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
  • prostituted — a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money; whore; harlot.
  • protandrous — (of hermaphrodite or monoecious plants) maturing the anthers before the stigma
  • proud flesh — granulation tissue.
  • providences — a seaport in and the capital of Rhode Island, in the NE part, at the head of Narragansett Bay.
  • provisioned — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
  • pseudo-code — a program code unrelated to the hardware of a particular computer and requiring conversion to the code used by the computer before the program can be used.
  • 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
  • pseudologue — a person who suffers from pseudologia
  • 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.
  • pseudomorph — an irregular or unclassifiable form.
  • pseudophone — an instrument for producing illusory auditory localization by changing the relationship between the receptor and the actual direction of the sound.
  • pseudopodal — (of protozoans) belonging to the former division Pseudopoda
  • pseudopodia — pseudopod.
  • pseudoprime — A backgammon prime (six consecutive occupied points) with one point missing. This term is an esoteric pun derived from a mathematical method that, rather than determining precisely whether a number is prime (has no divisors), uses a statistical technique to decide whether the number is "probably" prime. A number that passes this test is called a pseudoprime. The hacker backgammon usage stems from the idea that a pseudoprime is almost as good as a prime: it does the job of a prime until proven otherwise, and that probably won't happen.
  • pseudoscope — an optical instrument for producing an image in which the depth or relief of an object is reversed.
  • pseudoscopy — the use of a pseudoscope.
  • psychedelia — the realm or artifacts of psychedelic drugs, art, writings, or the like.
  • psychedelic — of or noting a mental state characterized by a profound sense of intensified sensory perception, sometimes accompanied by severe perceptual distortion and hallucinations and by extreme feelings of either euphoria or despair.
  • psychic bid — a bid designed to mislead one's opponents that is not based on the strength of one's hand or of the suit named but rather on one's feeling that not bidding would be more costly.
  • 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.
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