9-letter words containing p, d, s
- headships — Plural form of headship.
- headspace — empty space left above the contents of a closed jar, can, or other container.
- heapstead — the buildings at the surface of a mine
- hedgehops — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hedgehop.
- help desk — A help desk is a special service that you can telephone or e-mail in order to get information about a particular product or subject.
- hemipodes — Plural form of hemipode.
- hempstead — a village on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- highspeed — Alternative form of high-speed.
- hodoscope — any device for tracing the path of a charged particle, esp a particle found in cosmic rays
- horsepond — A pond for watering horses.
- hospodars — Plural form of hospodar.
- hypodense — Less dense (than normal).
- ideopolis — a city that is sustained primarily by intellectual enterprises such as education, the media, advertising, and design, with a highly educated workforce
- ideoscape — (according to w Arjun Appadurai) The global flow of ideologies.
- idioplasm — germ plasm.
- impastoed — (painting) Painted with an impasto.
- impressed — to press or force into public service, as sailors.
- in spades — a tool for digging, having an iron blade adapted for pressing into the ground with the foot and a long handle commonly with a grip or crosspiece at the top, and with the blade usually narrower and flatter than that of a shovel.
- indispose — to make ill, especially slightly.
- insipidly — without distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities; vapid: an insipid personality.
- inspanned — Simple past tense and past participle of inspan.
- inspected — Simple past tense and past participle of inspect.
- jaspidean — containing or resembling jasper
- judgeship — a public officer authorized to hear and decide cases in a court of law; a magistrate charged with the administration of justice.
- kidnapers — Plural form of kidnaper.
- knapweeds — Plural form of knapweed.
- lairdship — the condition of being a laird, or the rank of laird
- lampadist — (in ancient Greece) a competitor in a race run by young men with torches
- lampedusa — Giuseppe (Tomasi) di [joo-zep-pe taw-mah-zee-dee] /dʒuˈzɛp pɛ tɔˈmɑ zi di/ (Show IPA), 1896–1957, Italian novelist.
- lampshade — a shade, usually translucent or opaque, for shielding the glare of a light source in a lamp or for directing the light to a particular area.
- lampstand — a support for a light bulb
- landscape — a section or expanse of rural scenery, usually extensive, that can be seen from a single viewpoint.
- landslips — Plural form of landslip.
- lapboards — Plural form of lapboard.
- lapideous — (obsolete) Of the nature of stone.
- lespedeza — any shrub or herb belonging to the genus Lespedeza, of the legume family, having trifoliolate leaves and lavender flowers, grown for forage, soil improvement, etc.
- liliopsid — (botany) a member of the class Liliopsida. Circumscription of this class will vary with the taxonomic system being used.
- lindalisp — Linda for Lisp.
- lipidosis — A disorder of lipid metabolism in the body tissues.
- loadspace — the area in a motor vehicle where a load can be carried
- lordships — Plural form of lordship.
- lycopsids — Plural form of lycopsid.
- macropods — Plural form of macropod.
- madperson — (gender-neutral) A madman or madwoman.
- maildrops — Plural form of maildrop.
- maladapts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of maladapt.
- manspread — (of a man) to sit with one's legs far apart, taking up too much space on a seat shared with other people: guys who manspread on the subway.
- mantispid — any neuropterous, mantislike insect of the family Mantispidae, the larvae of which are parasites in the nests of spiders or wasps.
- megapodes — Plural form of megapode.
- messed up — beaten up; looking disarrayed.