11-letter words containing p, d, s
- puget sound — an arm of the Pacific, in NW Washington.
- pulse radar — a radar system using pulse modulation
- pumpkinseed — the seed of the pumpkin.
- purse-proud — proud of one's wealth, especially in an arrogant or showy manner.
- 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.
- r.s.v.p.'ed — to reply to an invitation: Don't forget to RSVP before Thursday.
- 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.
- re-inspired — to fill with an animating, quickening, or exalting influence: His courage inspired his followers.
- record shop — store selling recorded music
- red snapper — any of several snappers of the genus Lutjanus, especially L. campechanus, a large food fish of the Gulf of Mexico.
- reinspected — to look carefully at or over; view closely and critically: to inspect every part of the motor.
- relandscape — to landscape again after a previous landscaping
- replenished — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
- reposedness — the quality or state of being in repose or settled
- represented — to serve to express, designate, stand for, or denote, as a word, symbol, or the like does; symbolize: In this painting the cat represents evil and the bird, good.
- reprocessed — (of wool) previously spun and woven but not used, as tailors' clippings.
- resplendent — shining brilliantly; gleaming; splendid: troops resplendent in white uniforms; resplendent virtues.
- respondence — the act of responding; response: respondence to a stimulus.
- rest period — a period of rest
- resuspended — to hang by attachment to something above: to suspend a chandelier from the ceiling.
- 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.
- salad plate — a small plate used chiefly for serving an individual portion of salad.
- saline drip — the usually intravenous drop-by-drop administration of an isotonic solution of sodium chloride in distilled water
- sand hopper — beach flea.
- sand-groper — a native of the arid region of Western Australia.
- sandia peak — a mountain in N central New Mexico in the Sandia Mountains. 10,678 feet (3255 meters).
- sap orchard — sugarbush (def 2).
- sapphic ode — Horatian ode.
- sauropsidan — relating to the Sauropsida or animals belonging to the Sauriodea group in Huxley's classification
- schizopodal — pertaining to a split-foot or appendage
- scolopendra — a member of a genus of centipedes belonging to the Scolopendridae family
- scorpaenoid — resembling or related to the family Scorpaenidae.
- scratch pad — a pad of paper used for jotting down ideas, informal notes, preliminary writing, etc.
- screen dump — the act or process of printing or saving the graphical or textual data displayed on a computer screen.
- scripholder — a person who owns a scrip or scrips
- seed potato — a potato tuber used for planting
- seed shrimp — ostracod
- self-parody — a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing: his hilarious parody of Hamlet's soliloquy.
- self-poised — acting with poise.
- serendipity — an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.
- sesquipedal — given to using long words.
- shadow play — a show in which shadows of puppets, flat figures, or live actors are projected onto a lighted screen.
- shadowgraph — a picture produced by throwing a shadow, as of the hands, on a lighted screen, wall, or the like.
- sharp-eared — having pointed ears.