10-letter words containing p, o, d, u
- diophantus — 3rd century ad, Greek mathematician, noted for his treatise on the theory of numbers, Arithmetica
- dipetalous — bipetalous.
- diphyllous — having two leaves.
- diplodocus — a huge herbivorous dinosaur of the genus Diplodocus, from the Late Jurassic Epoch of western North America, growing to a length of about 87 feet (26.5 meters).
- disepalous — having two sepals.
- disespouse — to divorce from (a spouse)
- dispermous — having two seeds.
- dispiteous — malicious; cruel; pitiless.
- disruption — forcible separation or division into parts.
- disruptors — Plural form of disruptor.
- double cup — (in Renaissance art) a matched pair of metal cups, made so that one can be placed inverted on top of the other.
- double dip — In economics, a double dip is a period when an economy goes into recession, then briefly recovers, but then goes into another recession.
- double tap — an act of firing a gun twice in rapid succession
- double top — a score of double 20
- double-dip — Informal. to earn a salary from one position while collecting a pension from the same employer or organization, especially to be a wage earner on the federal payroll while receiving a military retiree's pension.
- downspouts — Plural form of downspout.
- drainspout — downspout.
- dropperful — the amount contained in a dropper
- drum corps — a band, especially a marching band, of drum players usually under the direction of a drum major.
- drupaceous — resembling or relating to a drupe; consisting of drupes.
- dump orbit — an earth orbit into which communications satellites may be moved at the end of their operational lives, where there is no risk of their interference or collision with working satellites in the normal orbits
- duopsonies — Plural form of duopsony.
- duplicator — a machine for making duplicates, as a mimeograph.
- dysprosium — a rare-earth metallic element, highly reactive and paramagnetic, found in small amounts in various rare-earth minerals, as euxenite and monazite: used to absorb neutrons in nuclear reactors. Symbol: Dy; atomic weight: 162.50; atomic number: 66.
- endopleura — the internal coating of a seed
- endproduct — Alternative spelling of end product.
- equipoised — Simple past tense and past participle of equipoise.
- euphonized — Simple past tense and past participle of euphonize.
- expounding — Present participle of expound.
- fepped out — (jargon) /fept owt/ The Symbolics 3600 LISP Machine has a Front-End Processor (FEP). When the main processor gets wedged, the FEP takes control of the keyboard and screen. Such a machine is said to have "fepped out" or "dropped into the fep".
- filopodium — a long, hairlike pseudopod composed of ectoplasm.
- food group — any of the categories into which different foods may be placed according to the type of nourishment they supply, such as carbohydrates or proteins
- foot-pound — a foot-pound-second unit of work or energy, equal to the work done by a force of one pound when its point of application moves through a distance of one foot in the direction of the force. Abbreviation: ft-lb.
- found poem — a composition made by combining fragments of such printed material as newspapers, signs, or menus, and rearranging them into the form of a poem.
- fruit drop — the premature shedding of fruit from a tree before fully ripe
- funduscopy — Ophthalmoscopic examination of the fundus of the eye.
- gonopodium — the modified anal fin of a male poeciliid fish, serving as an organ of copulation.
- grand coup — the trumping of a trick that could have been taken by the winner's partner.
- ground pea — peanut.
- groundplot — Aeronautics. a method for obtaining the position of an aircraft by multiplying its groundspeed by its time in flight and marking off the product with respect to its starting position.
- groundprox — a device that alerts a pilot of a passenger aircraft when the altitude falls below a certain level
- guadeloupe — two islands (Basse-Terre and Grande-Terre) separated by a narrow channel in the Leeward Islands of the West Indies: together with five dependencies they form an overseas department of France. 687 sq. mi. (1179 sq. km). Capital: Basse-Terre.
- guide rope — a rope fastened, usually at an angle, to a hoisting or towing line, to guide the object being moved.
- guideposts — Plural form of guidepost.
- half-pound — a unit of weight equal to 8 ounces avoirdupois (0.227 kilogram) or 6 ounces troy or apothecaries' weight (0.187 kilogram).
- hexapodous — (zoology) Having six feet; belonging to the Hexapoda.
- holdup man — a person who commits an armed robbery.
- houseproud — Alternative form of house-proud.
- importuned — Simple past tense and past participle of importune.
- impostumed — having an abscess