11-letter words containing nd
- open ground — uncovered or unobstructed ground in a wide open space
- open-handed — generous; liberal: openhanded hospitality.
- open-minded — having or showing a mind receptive to new ideas or arguments.
- openwindows — (operating system) A graphical user interface server for Sun workstations which handles SunView, NeWS and X Window System protocols.
- orland park — a town in NE Illinois.
- otter hound — one of an English breed of water dogs having a thick, shaggy, oily coat, trained to hunt otter.
- out of hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- out-and-out — complete; total; thoroughgoing: an out-and-out lie.
- out-of-band — 1. (communications) The exchange of call control information on a dedicated channel, separate from that used by the telephone call or data transmission. 2. Sometimes used to describe what communications people call "shift characters", such as the ESC that leads control sequences for many terminals, or the level shift indicators in the old 5-bit Baudot codes. 3. In personal communication, using methods other than electronic mail, such as telephone or snail-mail. 4. (software) Values returned by a function that are not in its "natural" range of return values, but rather signal some kind of exception. Many C functions that normally return a non-negative integer return -1 to indicate failure. This use confuses "out-of-band" with "out-of-range". It is actually a clear example of in-band signalling since it uses the same "channel" for control and data. Compare hidden flag, green bytes, fence.
- outstanding — prominent; conspicuous; striking: an outstanding example of courage.
- oval window — an oval opening at the head of the cochlea, connecting the middle and inner ear, through which sound vibrations of the stapes are transmitted.
- over-demand — to ask for with proper authority; claim as a right: He demanded payment of the debt.
- over-expand — to increase in extent, size, volume, scope, etc.: Heat expands most metals. He hopes to expand his company.
- over-extend — to extend, reach, or expand beyond a proper, safe, or reasonable point: a company that overextended its credit to diversify.
- over-handle — a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
- overfunding — a supply of money or pecuniary resources, as for some purpose: a fund for his education; a retirement fund.
- overindulge — eat, do to excess
- overrespond — to respond too dramatically
- overspender — someone who overspends
- p's and q's — manners; behavior; conduct (usually preceded by mind or watch): The children were told to mind their p's and q's.
- pachysandra — any plant of the genus Pachysandra, as the Allegheny spurge or Japanese spurge, the leaves of which grow in a rounded clump, widely used as a ground cover in the U.S.
- palindromic — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
- palm sunday — the Sunday before Easter, celebrated in commemoration of Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem.
- palmer land — the southern part of the Antarctic Peninsula.
- panda plant — a succulent perennial shrub, Kalanchoe tomentosa, of Madagascar, having oblate leaves with gray fuzz and brown blotches on the edges.
- pandemonian — a noisy and disorderly person
- pandemonium — wild uproar or unrestrained disorder; tumult or chaos.
- panhandling — to accost passers-by on the street and beg from them.
- paper round — job delivering newspapers
- paper-bound — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
- parascender — a person who takes part in parascending
- pass around — distribute, circulate
- passo fundo — a city in S Brazil.
- pastureland — Also called pastureland [pas-cher-land, pahs-] /ˈpæs tʃərˌlænd, ˈpɑs-/ (Show IPA). an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
- pate tendre — soft paste.
- pathfinding — a person who finds or makes a path, way, route, etc., especially through a previously unexplored or untraveled wilderness.
- peak demand — business: strong sales
- pen and ink — A pen and ink drawing is done using a pen rather than a pencil.
- pendulosity — the state or quality of being pendulous
- pentandrous — of or pertaining to the order of plants Pentandria, characterized by having five stamens
- pentlandite — a mineral, sulfide of nickel, occurring in the form of bronze-colored granular aggregates, found with pyrrhotite: the principal source of nickel.
- petropounds — the multiples of the British pound as regarded in terms of income derived from petroleum
- philanderer — (of a man) to make love with a woman one cannot or will not marry; carry on flirtations.
- pierrefonds — a former city in S Quebec, Canada, now part of Montreal.
- piss around — If you say that someone pisses around or pisses about, you mean they waste a lot of time doing unimportant things.
- piston land — A piston land is a raised area of a piston between piston rings.
- pitchblende — a massive variety of uraninite, occurring in black pitchlike masses: a major ore of uranium and radium.
- play around — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- plott hound — an American hound having a brindled coat, used especially in hunting bears and wild boars.
- poke around — to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.