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10-letter words containing a, n, t, e, p, o

  • depilation — to remove the hair from (hides, skin, etc.).
  • depuration — The action or process of freeing something of impurities.
  • deputation — A deputation is a small group of people who have been asked to speak to someone on behalf of a larger group of people, especially in order to make a complaint.
  • dictaphone — a tape recorder designed for recording dictation and later reproducing it for typing
  • east point — a city in N Georgia, near Atlanta.
  • elaeoptene — eleoptene
  • emplastron — a plaster containing a balm or medication
  • en rapport — in sympathy, harmony, or accord
  • episcopant — a bishop
  • eruptional — relating to volcanic eruption
  • ethnoscape — A transnational distribution of correlated people.
  • euphoriant — A drug which produces feelings of euphoria.
  • exaptation — (biology) The use of a biological structure or function for a purpose other than that for which it initially evolved.
  • exoplanets — Plural form of exoplanet.
  • expiration — The ending of the fixed period for which a contract is valid.
  • floatplane — a seaplane having landing gear consisting of one or more floats.
  • foretopman — a member of a ship's crew stationed on the foretop.
  • fort payne — a town in NE Alabama.
  • fortepiano — a piano of the late 18th and early 19th centuries with greater clarity but less volume, resonance, and dynamic range than a modern grand, revived in the late 20th century for the performance of the music of its period.
  • front-page — of major importance; worth putting on the first page of a newspaper.
  • game point — (in tennis, squash, handball, etc.) the point that if won would enable the scorer or the scorer's side to win the game.
  • godparents — Plural form of godparent.
  • grapestone — the seed of a grape.
  • heptagonal — having seven sides or angles.
  • heptameron — A literary work whose action covers a period of seven days.
  • heptathlon — an athletic contest for women comprising seven different track-and-field events and won by the contestant amassing the highest total score.
  • heptatonic — (of a musical scale) comprising seven notes
  • hierophant — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
  • hog peanut — a twining plant, Amphicarpaea bracteata, of the legume family, bearing pods that ripen in or on the ground.
  • homopteran — homopterous.
  • houseplant — an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.
  • hypaethron — a part of a building or court which is open to the sky
  • hyperbaton — the use, especially for emphasis, of a word order other than the expected or usual one, as in “Bird thou never wert.”.
  • hypertonia — increased rigidity, tension, and spasticity of the muscles.
  • hyphenator — One who, or that which, hyphenates.
  • hypothenar — the fleshly prominence on the palm at the base of the little finger.
  • importance — the quality or state of being important; consequence; significance.
  • inapposite — not apposite; not pertinent.
  • interpolar — connecting or being between poles: an interpolar flight.
  • interposal — (dated) interposure.
  • keep on at — If you keep on at someone, you repeatedly ask or tell them something in a way that annoys them.
  • kept woman — a woman maintained by a man as his mistress
  • kryptonate — (inorganic chemistry) To infuse a solid with krypton gas (especially with radioactive krypton-85).
  • lithophane — a transparency made of thin porcelain or bone china having an intaglio design.
  • mecopteran — mecopterous.
  • metapontum — an ancient Greek city in SE Italy, on the Gulf of Taranto: home of Pythagoras in exile.
  • monopteral — having the form of a monopteron.
  • nautophone — an electrically operated horn for giving fog warnings.
  • neapolitan — of, relating to, or characteristic of Naples: a Neapolitan love song.
  • near point — the point nearest the eye at which an object is clearly focused on the retina when accommodation of the eye is at a maximum.
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