10-letter words containing p, o, d, u
- pound coin — a British coin with a value of one pound sterling
- pound note — paper money: one pound sterling
- pound sign — a symbol (£) for “pound” or “pounds” as a monetary unit of the United Kingdom.
- powderpuff — a soft, feathery ball or pad, as of cotton or down, for applying powder to the skin.
- predacious — predatory; rapacious.
- preludious — characteristic of a prelude
- primordium — the first recognizable, histologically differentiated stage in the development of an organ.
- procedural — procedural language
- proctodeum — a depression in the ectoderm of the anal region of a young embryo, which develops into part of the anal canal.
- prodigious — extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.: a prodigious research grant.
- producible — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- productile — capable of being lengthened out; extensile.
- production — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
- productive — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- profounder — penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge; having deep insight or understanding: a profound thinker.
- profoundly — penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge; having deep insight or understanding: a profound thinker.
- profundity — the quality or state of being profound; depth.
- pronounced — strongly marked: a pronounced fishy taste.
- propounder — to put forward or offer for consideration, acceptance, or adoption; set forth; propose: to propound a theory.
- protruding — to project.
- pseudimago — (of insects) a form similar to the adult, but which is not a true adult
- pseudo-tty — (operating system) Berkeley Unix networking device which appears to an application program as an ordinary terminal but which is in fact connected via the network to a process running on a different host or a windowing system. Pseudo-ttys have a slave half and a control half. The slave tty (/dev/ttyp*) is the device that user programs use and the control tty (/dev/ptyp*) is used by daemons to talk to the net.
- pseudoacid — a compound that is not an acid but which undergoes certain typical reactions of an acid
- pseudoalum — any of a class of alums in which the usual monovalent metal of a true alum is replaced by a bivalent metal
- pseudobulb — an enlarged, aboveground portion of stem, present in many tropical orchids, in which moisture is stored.
- pseudocarp — accessory fruit.
- pseudocide — the act of faking one’s own death
- pseudocode — a program code unrelated to the hardware of a particular computer and requiring conversion to the code used by the computer before the program can be used.
- pseudocoel — the body cavity of certain invertebrate metazoan animals between the body wall and the intestine, which is not lined with a mesodermal epithelium.
- pseudogene — a genelike section of DNA that has no apparent function
- pseudology — lying considered as an art.
- pseudosalt — a compound whose formula is that of a salt, but that does not ionize in solution
- pseudosuit — /soo'doh-s[y]oot"/ A suit wannabee; a hacker who has decided that he wants to be in management or administration and begins wearing ties, sport coats, and (shudder!) suits voluntarily. It's his funeral. See also lobotomy.
- punchboard — a small board containing holes filled with slips of paper printed with concealed numbers that are punched out by a player in an attempt to win a prize.
- pundigrion — a pun
- put to bed — a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well.
- quadcopter — A rotorcraft propelled by four rotors.
- quadripole — an electric circuit with two input and two output terminals
- quadrupole — a set of four associated positive and negative electric charges or two associated magnetic dipoles
- radiopaque — opaque to radiation; visible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy (opposed to radiotransparent).
- read up on — If you read up on a subject, you read a lot about it so that you become informed about it.
- recomputed — to determine by calculation; reckon; calculate: to compute the period of Jupiter's revolution.
- reproducer — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- round tape — (storage, jargon) Industry-standard 1/2-inch magnetic tape (7- or 9-track) on traditional circular reels. See macrotape, opposite: square tape.
- round trip — a trip to a given place and back again: Fares for round trips often have a discount.
- rudderpost — the vertical member of a stern frame on which the rudder is hung; a sternpost.
- smudge pot — a container for burning oil or other fuels to produce smudge, as for protecting fruit trees from frost.
- soundproof — impervious to sound.
- soundscape — the component sounds of an environment.
- spaced out — dazed or stupefied because of the influence of narcotic drugs.