5-letter words containing d, p
- pandy — a stroke on the palm of the hand with a cane or strap given as a punishment in school.
- paned — having panes (usually used in combination): a diamond-paned window.
- pards — partner; companion.
- pared — to cut off the outer coating, layer, or part of.
- paved — (of a road, path, etc) covered with a firm surface suitable for travel, as with paving stones or concrete
- pavid — timid; afraid; fearful; frightened.
- pawed — the foot of an animal having claws.
- payed — to coat or cover (seams, a ship's bottom, etc.) with pitch, tar, or the like.
- pdksh — Version 4.9 interpreter Simon J. Gerraty <[email protected]> comp.sources.misc volume 4 It is not intended to be the ultimate shell but rather a usable ksh work alike. conformance: Almost identical to ksh88, but missing arrays E-mail: Simon J Gerraty <[email protected]> (zen.void.oz.au is down) 1993-10-11
- pdp-6 — (computer) Programmed Data Processor model 6. A computer designed around 1960 with more or less exactly the same hardware architecture as the PDP-10. It already had multi-user time sharing and batch processing and multi-level priority interrupts
- pdp-7 — (computer) A minicomputer sold by DEC in 1964. It had a memory cycle time of 1.75 microseconds and add time of 4 microseconds. I/O included a keyboard, printer, paper-tape and dual transport DECtape drives (type 555). DEC provided an "advanced" Fortran II compiler, a Symbolic Assembler, Editor, DDT Debugging System, Maintenance routines and a library of arithmetic, utility and programming aids developed on the program-compatible PDP-4. The PDP-7 was considered reliable enough (when properly programmed) to be used for control of nuclear reactors and such. Around 1970 Ken Thompson built the operating system that became Unix on a scavenged PDP-7 so he could play a descendant of the SPACEWAR game.
- pedal — a foot-operated lever used to control certain mechanisms, as automobiles, or to play or modify the sounds of certain musical instruments, as pianos, organs, or harps.
- pedes — a foot or footlike part.
- pedi- — indicating the foot
- pedia — a crystal form having only a single face, without a symmetrical equivalent: unique to the triclinic system.
- pedo- — indicating soil
- pedon — a three-dimensional sample of a soil just large enough to show the characteristics of all its horizons.
- pedro — any of several varieties of all fours in which the five of trumps counts at its face value.
- penda — died 655 ad, king of Mercia (?634–55)
- pends — to remain undecided or unsettled.
- pendu — culturally backward
- perdu — hidden; concealed; obscured.
- pidog — an ownerless half-wild dog of uncertain breeding, common in the villages and towns of India and other countries in east and south Asia.
- piend — arris.
- piked — a shafted weapon having a pointed head, formerly used by infantry.
- piled — having a pile, as velvet and other fabrics.
- pined — to yearn deeply; suffer with longing; long painfully (often followed by for): to pine for one's home and family.
- piped — a hollow cylinder of metal, wood, or other material, used for the conveyance of water, gas, steam, petroleum, etc.
- plaid — any fabric woven of differently colored yarns in a crossbarred pattern.
- plead — to appeal or entreat earnestly: to plead for time.
- plied — British Dialect. to bend, fold, or mold.
- po'ed — very angry.
- podal — relating to feet
- poddy — a newborn or unweaned calf, especially one that is taken from its mother and hand-fed.
- podex — the posterior of an animal
- podge — a short chubby person
- podgy — pudgy.
- podia — a small platform for the conductor of an orchestra, a public speaker, the recipient of a sports medal, etc.
- podo- — foot or feet
- pofod — Probability of Failure on Demand
- poind — to take (property of a debtor) in execution or by way of distress; distrain
- poled — a long, cylindrical, often slender piece of wood, metal, etc.: a telephone pole; a fishing pole.
- pondo — a member of a Negroid people of southern Africa, living chiefly in Pondoland
- pooed — excrement.
- pored — to read or study with steady attention or application: a scholar poring over a rare old manuscript.
- posed — to assume a particular attitude or stance, especially with the hope of impressing others: He likes to pose as an authority on literature.
- pound — Archaic. to shut up in or as in a pound; impound; imprison.
- prado — an art gallery in Madrid housing an important collection of Spanish paintings
- pred. — predicate
- predy — (of a ship) prepared or ready for sailing or action