10-letter words containing r, h, d
- padma shri — (in India) an award for distinguished service in any field
- panhandler — to accost passers-by on the street and beg from them.
- parenthood — the state, position, or relation of a parent.
- patch cord — a short cord with a plug at each end, or a plug at one end and a pair of clips at the other, used for temporarily connecting two pieces of equipment or signal paths.
- patchboard — a device with a large number of sockets into which electrical plugs can be inserted to form many different temporary circuits: used in telephone exchanges, computer systems, etc
- pathfinder — a historical novel (1840) by James Fenimore Cooper.
- pentachord — a series of five consecutive notes of a scale
- permadeath — (in a game, often a video game) the permanent death of a defeated character, after which the player of the game cannot continue with the same character.
- personhood — the state or fact of being a person.
- petri dish — a shallow, circular, glass or plastic dish with a loose-fitting cover over the top and sides, used for culturing bacteria and other microorganisms.
- petrolhead — a person who is excessively interested in or is devoted to travelling by car
- phelloderm — a layer of parenchyma produced inwardly by the cork cambium; an inner secondary cortex of the cork cambium.
- phenol red — a bright to dark red crystalline compound, C 1 9 H 1 4 O 5 S, slightly soluble in water, alcohol, and acetone: used as an acid-base indicator and as a diagnostic reagent in medicine.
- phone card — calling card (def 3).
- photodrama — photoplay.
- pitch-dark — dark or black as pitch: a pitch-dark night.
- podosphere — the world's podcasters and their audience, viewed collectively
- polyhedral — of, relating to, or having the shape of a polyhedron.
- polyhedric — resembling a polyhedron
- polyhedron — a solid figure having many faces.
- polyhybrid — a heterozygous hybrid
- polyhydric — (especially of alcohols and phenols) polyhydroxy.
- porphyroid — a rock resembling porphyry.
- pot-holder — a thick piece of material, as a quilted or woven pad, used in handling hot pots and dishes.
- pranidhana — (in Mahayana Buddhism) the resolution not to enter nirvana until all beings are ready to enter.
- preholiday — relating to the period before a holiday
- prehominid — any of the extinct humanlike primates classified in the former family Prehominidae.
- preshipped — a vessel, especially a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines.
- priesthood — the condition or office of a priest.
- princehood — the office or rank of a prince
- prohibited — to forbid (an action, activity, etc.) by authority or law: Smoking is prohibited here.
- prophesied — to foretell or predict.
- puducherry — a union territory of India, on the Coromandel Coast: formerly the chief settlement of French India; territory includes Mahé (on the Malabar Coast), Karikal, and Yanaon. 181 sq. mi. (469 sq. km).
- punch card — punched card
- 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.
- pyrethroid — any of several synthetic compounds that are similar to but more persistent than natural pyrethrins.
- qaraghandy — a city in central Kazakhstan.
- quad right — (in computer typesetting) flush right.
- radiograph — Also called shadowgraph. a photographic image produced by the action of x-rays or nuclear radiation.
- radiophare — a radiotelegraphic station used by vessels to determine their positions; radio beacon.
- radiophone — a radiotelephone.
- radiophoto — an image created by radio waves rather than light
- ranch hand — an employee on a ranch
- ras dashan — the highest mountain in Ethiopia, in the N part. 15,158 feet (4623 meters).
- rattlehead — a rattlebrain.
- readership — the people who read or are thought to read a particular book, newspaper, magazine, etc.: The periodical has a dwindling readership.
- reattached — to fasten or affix; join; connect: to attach a photograph to an application with a staple.
- red kowhai — parrot's-bill.
- red shanks — herb Robert.
- red sindhi — one of an Indian breed of red Brahman dairy cattle, extensively used in crossbreeding with stocks less adapted to subtropical conditions.