10-letter words containing p, e, d, r, n, a
- lap dancer — a scantily dressed woman who dances erotically for individual members of the audience
- lipreading — the reading or understanding, as by a deaf person, of spoken words from the movements of another's lips without hearing the sounds made.
- nephridial — Of or pertaining to a nephridium.
- neuropodia — Plural form of neuropodium.
- oropendola — any of several birds of the genus Gymnostinops, related to crows and feeding primarily on fruit and nectar, noted especially for their hanging nests.
- overexpand — to expand excessively
- palindrome — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
- palisander — Brazilian rosewood.
- pandermite — a white, marble-like mineral
- pandurated — fiddle-shaped
- panelboard — a compact pressboard for use in constructing sides of cabinets, paneling for walls, and in other nonstructural applications.
- panhandler — to accost passers-by on the street and beg from them.
- papandreou — Andreas [ahn-drey-uh s] /ɑnˈdreɪ əs/ (Show IPA), (George) 1919–1996, Greek political leader: premier 1981–89 (son of George Papandreou).
- paperbound — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
- paradisean — of the genus Paradisaea (birds of paradise)
- pardonable — kind indulgence, as in forgiveness of an offense or discourtesy or in tolerance of a distraction or inconvenience: I beg your pardon, but which way is Spruce Street?
- pared-down — If you describe something as pared-down, you mean that it has no unnecessary features, and has been reduced to a very simple form.
- parenthood — the state, position, or relation of a parent.
- parmenides — flourished c450 b.c, Greek Eleatic philosopher.
- pathfinder — a historical novel (1840) by James Fenimore Cooper.
- patronised — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
- peary land — a peninsula in N Greenland, extending into the Arctic Ocean: Cape Morris Jesup is at its N end. 200 miles (320 km) long.
- pedernales — a river in central Texas, flowing E to the Colorado river. About 105 miles (169 km) long.
- pedestrian — a person who goes or travels on foot; walker.
- peduncular — Botany. a flower stalk, supporting either a cluster or a solitary flower. the stalk bearing the fruiting body in fungi.
- pentachord — a series of five consecutive notes of a scale
- perdurance — permanence; the quality of lasting or enduring forever
- peridental — periodontal.
- peridinian — a member of the genus Peridinium
- person-day — a unit of measurement, especially in accountancy, based on an ideal amount of work done by one person in one working day.
- phone card — calling card (def 3).
- pinnigrade — moving by means of finlike parts or flippers, as the seals and walruses.
- pirandello — Luigi [loo-ee-jee] /luˈi dʒi/ (Show IPA), 1867–1936, Italian dramatist, novelist, and poet: Nobel prize 1934.
- plunderage — act of plundering; pillage.
- ponderable — capable of being considered carefully or deeply.
- ponderance — weight or significance
- pontevedra — a port in NW Spain: takes its name from a 12-arched Roman bridge, the Pons Vetus. Pop: 77 993 (2003 est)
- prebendary — a canon or member of the clergy who is entitled to a prebend for special services at a cathedral or collegiate church.
- predentate — of an infant whose teeth have not yet developed; occurring during or pertaining to this period of development
- premundane — before the creation of the world; antemundane.
- preplanned — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- prereading — of or relating to the period before reading a text, book, etc
- pretendant — a pretender
- pronograde — walking with the body parallel to the ground
- prudential — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or resulting from prudence.
- pteranodon — a flying reptile of the extinct order Pterosauria, from the Cretaceous Period, having a wingspread of about 25 feet (8 meters).
- pyranoside — a glycoside containing a pyran ring structure.
- radiophone — a radiotelephone.
- re-planned — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- read up on — If you read up on a subject, you read a lot about it so that you become informed about it.