10-letter words containing a, d, o, p
- half-pound — a unit of weight equal to 8 ounces avoirdupois (0.227 kilogram) or 6 ounces troy or apothecaries' weight (0.187 kilogram).
- handphones — Plural form of handphone.
- hard power — the ability to achieve one's goals by force, esp military force
- harpsicord — Dated form of harpsichord.
- headphones — Audio. a headset designed for use with a stereo system.
- heptachord — a musical scale of seven notes.
- heptapodic — having seven metrical feet
- hexaploidy — the condition of being a hexaploid
- hexapodous — (zoology) Having six feet; belonging to the Hexapoda.
- holdup man — a person who commits an armed robbery.
- hop garden — a field of hops
- hydrograph — a graph of the water level or rate of flow of a body of water as a function of time, showing the seasonal change.
- hydropathy — the curing of disease by the internal and external use of water.
- hydrophane — a partly translucent variety of opal, which becomes more translucent or transparent when immersed in water.
- hydroplane — a seaplane.
- hydrospace — the regions beneath the surface of the oceans and seas.
- hyphopodia — (in a fungus) a specialized hyphal branch, composed of one or two usually lobed cells, serving for attachment and for the absorption of food.
- hypnodrama — the acting out of a traumatic experience, under hypnosis, by a person undergoing psychotherapy.
- hypnopedia — sleep learning.
- hypoadenia — a deficiency of glandular activity.
- hypodermal — Zoology. an underlayer of epithelial cells in arthropods and certain other invertebrates that secretes substances for the overlying cuticle or exoskeleton.
- hypodorian — denoting a plagal mode represented by the ascending diatonic scale from A to A
- hypolydian — denoting a plagal mode represented by the diatonic scale from D to D
- ideographs — an ideogram.
- ideography — the use of ideograms.
- idiography — The study of individuals.
- idiopathic — of unknown cause, as a disease.
- idiot tape — an input tape for a typesetting machine that contains text only, the typographical instructions being supplied by the typesetting machine itself
- incompared — incomparable; unmatched; unequalled
- infraposed — placed beneath
- iproniazid — a compound, C 9 H 13 N 3 O, used in the treatment of mental depression and tuberculosis.
- island-hop — to travel from island to island, especially to visit a series of islands in the same chain or area.
- jaspideous — Jaspidean; made of jasper.
- jeopardies — Plural form of jeopardy.
- jeoparding — Present participle of jeopard.
- jeopardise — to put in jeopardy; hazard; risk; imperil: He jeopardized his life every time he dived from the tower.
- jeopardize — to put in jeopardy; hazard; risk; imperil: He jeopardized his life every time he dived from the tower.
- jeopardous — perilous; dangerous; hazardous; risky.
- juxtaposed — to place close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.
- karyotyped — Simple past tense and past participle of karyotype.
- lampholder — a fixture for an electric light bulb
- land power — a nation having an important and powerful army.
- landlouper — A vagabond; a vagrant.
- lapidation — to pelt with stones.
- lead up to — to go before or with to show the way; conduct or escort: to lead a group on a cross-country hike.
- leopardess — a female leopard.
- loperamide — a substance, C 29 H 33 ClN 2 O 2 , used in the treatment of diarrhea.
- loud pedal — a pedal on a piano that when depressed with the foot raises the dampers and permits the strings to vibrate and sustain the tone.
- lymphodema — (pathology) A condition of fluid retention caused by a compromised lymphatic system.
- madrepores — Plural form of madrepore.