9-letter words containing p, e, d
- cooped up — If you say that someone is cooped up, you mean that they live or are kept in a place which is too small, or which does not allow them much freedom.
- copiloted — Simple past tense and past participle of copilot.
- coproduce — to produce (a motion picture, play, etc.) in collaboration with others.
- copsewood — the smallest trees, and the bushes and ferns, of a coppice
- copulated — Simple past tense and past participle of copulate.
- copy desk — a desk where copy is edited
- copy-edit — to prepare (copy) for printing by styling, correcting, etc
- copy-read — to work on (copy) as a copyreader.
- copyedits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of copyedit.
- core dump — a copy of main memory that is printed, displayed, or recorded on an output medium.
- corrupted — guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
- cosphered — sharing the same sphere
- coupledom — the state of living as a couple, esp when regarded as being interested in each other to the exclusion of the outside world
- crispated — Crispate.
- crisphead — a variety of lettuce with a dense cabbage-like head and mild crunchy leaves
- cuddle up — If you cuddle up to someone, you sit or lie as near to them as possible.
- cupholder — a competitor who has won or successfully defended a specific cup, trophy, championship, etc.; champion.
- cupolated — having a cupola or cupolas.
- cuspidate — having a cusp or cusps
- dalrymple — Sir James, 1st Viscount Stair, 1619–95, Scottish jurist.
- dampening — to make damp; moisten: to dampen a sponge.
- dassiepis — (South African English) hyraceum: The solidified urine of a dassie, used medicinally, inter-alia, for epilepsy.
- data type — type
- date palm — A date palm is a palm tree on which dates grow.
- date rape — Date rape is when a man rapes a woman whom he has met socially.
- datepalms — Plural form of datepalm.
- davenport — a tall narrow desk with a slanted writing surface and drawers at the side
- de-couple — to cause to become separated, disconnected, or divergent; uncouple.
- de-hyphen — a short line (-) used to connect the parts of a compound word or the parts of a word divided for any purpose.
- dead drop — a prearranged secret spot where one espionage agent leaves a message or material for another agent to pick up.
- dead spot — Also called blind spot. an area in which radio or cell phone signals are weak and their reception poor.
- dead-spot — Anatomy. a small area on the retina that is insensitive to light due to the interruption, where the optic nerve joins the retina, of the normal pattern of light-sensitive rods and cones.
- death cap — a poisonous woodland saprotrophic basidiomycetous fungus, Amanita phalloides, differing from the edible mushroom (Agaricus) only in its white gills (pinkish-brown in Agaricus) and the presence of a volva
- death cup — a poisonous mushroom of the genus Amanita.
- deathtrap — If you say that a place or vehicle is a deathtrap, you mean it is in such bad condition that it might cause someone's death.
- debt swap — A debt swap is a legal agreement where two people or companies exchange their debts, often where one has a fixed interest rate and one does not.
- dec alpha — (processor) A RISC microprocessor from DEC. In November 1995, the Alpha was purportedly the fastest non-research chip used in commonly available workstations. It is superpipelined and superscalar. In February 1996 it was clocked at 200 MHz and in March 1998 at 666 MHz.
- decamping — Present participle of decamp.
- decapodal — (zoology) Belonging to the decapods; having ten feet.
- decapolis — a league of ten cities, including Damascus, in the northeast of ancient Palestine: established in 63 bc by Pompey and governed by Rome
- deception — Deception is the act of deceiving someone or the state of being deceived by someone.
- deceptive — If something is deceptive, it encourages you to believe something which is not true.
- deceptory — inclined to deceive
- deciphers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decipher.
- decompile — Produce source code from (compiled code).
- decomplex — having or composed of parts that are complex in themselves
- decompose — When things such as dead plants or animals decompose, or when something decomposes them, they change chemically and begin to decay.
- decoupage — the art or process of decorating a surface with shapes or illustrations cut from paper, card, etc
- decoupled — Simple past tense and past participle of decouple.
- decoupler — a person or device that disconnects parts that are joined