10-letter words containing a, l, e, p
- flop sweat — a sudden heavy perspiration caused by embarrassment
- flop-eared — having long, drooping ears, as a hound.
- flurazepam — a benzodiazepine, C 21 H 23 ClFN 3 O, used in its hydrochloride form as a sedative and hypnotic in the management of insomnia and to alleviate anxiety states.
- footplates — Plural form of footplate.
- force play — a situation in which a base runner is forced to advance to a base or to home plate as a result of the batter becoming a base runner or to make room for another base runner.
- fore plane — a plane, intermediate in size between a jack plane and a jointer plane, used for preliminary smoothing.
- funnel cap — any of various basidiomycetous fungi of the genus Clitocybe, characterized by the funnel-shaped caps and, usually, markedly decurrent gills
- gallopades — Plural form of gallopade.
- gameplayer — One who plays a game or games.
- geoponical — agricultural
- geospatial — Relating to or denoting data that is associated with a particular location.
- germ plasm — the protoplasm of the germ cells containing the chromosomes.
- giant kelp — any of various very large kelps of the genera Laminaria, Macrocystis, and Nereocystis.
- gin palace — (formerly) a gaudy drinking house
- give place — to make room
- glammed up — made to look more glamorous
- glasspaper — (archaic) sandpaper.
- glen plaid — a plaid pattern of muted colors or of black or gray and white, especially one in which two dark and two light stripes alternate with four dark and four light stripes, both vertically and horizontally, forming a crossing pattern of irregular checks.
- glyphosate — a compound, C 3 H 8 NO 5 P, used to kill a wide range of weeds.
- goalkeeper — (in ice hockey, field hockey, lacrosse, soccer, etc.) a player whose chief duty is to prevent the ball or puck from crossing or entering the goal.
- gold plate — a thin coating of gold, usually produced by electroplating
- gold-plate — to coat (base metal) with gold, especially by electroplating.
- goldplated — to coat (base metal) with gold, especially by electroplating.
- grapelouse — an insect that attacks grape vines
- grapholect — an established and standardized written language
- graplement — a close fight or a close fighting grasp
- graptolite — any colonial animal of the extinct class Graptolithina, most common in the Ordovician and Silurian Periods, thought to be related to the pterobranchs.
- gravel pit — an open cast working for the extraction of gravel
- 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.
- haemolymph — the blood-like fluid of invertebrates
- haemophile — a haemophilic bacterium
- half snipe — jacksnipe (def 1).
- half-empty — (of a vessel, place, etc) holding or containing half its capacity
- half-plane — the part of the plane on one side of a straight line of infinite length in the plane.
- half-plate — a size of plate measuring 61⁄2 × 41⁄4 inches
- half-price — at a 50% reduction in cost
- halophiles — Plural form of halophile.
- halophytes — Plural form of halophyte.
- haplophase — the haploid portion of an organism's life cycle.
- haplotypes — Plural form of haplotype.
- hard maple — the sugar maple, Acer saccharum.
- harelipped — Usually Offensive. cleft lip.
- hartlepool — a seaport city in NE England.
- hazel park — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- health spa — a resort or a special building or room where a person may exercise, swim, or otherwise condition the body.
- hedgeapple — Alternate name for the fruit of the osage orange tree, also known as the hedge tree.
- heliograph — a device for signaling by means of a movable mirror that reflects beams of light, especially sunlight, to a distance.
- heliopause — the boundary of the heliosphere.
- hemiplegia — paralysis of one side of the body.
- hemipteral — of or relating to a hemipterous insect