10-letter words containing p, e, d
- cracked up — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- cradle cap — a form of seborrhoea of the scalp common in young babies
- cranked up — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
- creep-feed — to feed (animals) in a creep feeder.
- crepitated — Simple past tense and past participle of crepitate.
- crippledom — the state of being crippled
- crispbread — Crispbreads are thin dry biscuits made from wheat or rye. They are often eaten instead of bread by people who want to lose weight.
- crop-eared — having the ears or hair cut short
- cropduster — an aeroplane used to spray crops with fertilizer or insecticide
- culdoscope — an endoscope used in a medical examination of the ovary, uterus, etc., inserted through the upper vaginal wall into the pelvic cavity
- cup-holder — a device for holding a cup upright, esp in a motor vehicle
- cupidities — Plural form of cupidity.
- cuspidated — Alternative form of cuspidate.
- cyclopedia — encyclopedia
- cyclopedic — like a cyclopedia in character or contents; broad and varied; exhaustive.
- cypripedia — any plant or flower of the genus Cypripedium
- d particle — D meson.
- dall sheep — a wild sheep (Ovis dalli) with white hair and long spiral horns, living in the mountains of NW North America
- dampcourse — a horizontal layer of impervious material in a brick wall, fairly close to the ground, to stop moisture rising
- dapperness — neat; trim; smart: He looked very dapper in his new suit.
- dasypaedal — (of the young of some species of birds after hatching) having a covering of down
- date stamp — an adjustable rubber stamp for recording the date
- date-stamp — to stamp the date on, as with a date stamp: He date-stamped every letter received.
- dauphiness — dauphine.
- davenports — Plural form of davenport.
- dawes plan — a plan to ensure payments of reparations by Germany after World War I, devised by an international committee headed by Charles Gates Dawes and put into effect in 1924.
- de gasperi — Alcide (alˈtʃiːde). 1881–1954, Italian statesman; prime minister (1945–53). An antifascist, he led the Christian Democratic party during World War II from the Vatican City
- de lesseps — Vicomte Ferdinand Marie (fɛrdinɑ̃ mari). 1805–94, French diplomat: directed the construction of the Suez Canal (1859–69) and the unsuccessful first attempt to build the Panama Canal (1881–89)
- deaconship — (in hierarchical churches) a member of the clerical order next below that of a priest.
- dead point — dead center
- deadpanned — marked by or accomplished with a careful pretense of seriousness or calm detachment; impassive or expressionless: deadpan humor.
- deadpanner — a person who has a deliberately emotionless face
- dealership — A dealership is a company that sells cars, usually for one car company.
- deaspirate — to remove any audible breath sound from (a sound)
- death camp — A death camp is a place where prisoners are kept, especially during a war, and where many of them die or are killed.
- death trap — If you say that a place or vehicle is a death trap, you mean it is in such bad condition that it might cause someone's death.
- deathplace — the place at which a person dies: Lincoln is buried in Illinois, but his deathplace was Washington, D.C.
- deathtraps — Plural form of deathtrap.
- decampment — The act of decamping.
- decapitate — If someone is decapitated, their head is cut off.
- decapodous — Decapodal; ten-footed.
- deceiptful — Obsolete form of deceitful.
- deceptable — Vulnerable to deception.
- deceptible — capable of being deceived
- deceptions — Plural form of deception.
- deceptious — relating to deception or inclined to deceive
- deciphered — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- decipherer — A person who deciphers.
- deck plate — a purlin plate at the edge of a deck.
- decompiler — (computer science) A computer program performing the reverse operation to that of a compiler.