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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.
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