10-letter words containing a, p, e, n
- escapement — A mechanism in a clock or watch that alternately checks and releases the train by a fixed amount and transmits a periodic impulse from the spring or weight to the balance wheel or pendulum.
- escarpment — A long, steep slope, especially one at the edge of a plateau or separating areas of land at different heights.
- espionages — Plural form of espionage.
- esplanades — Plural form of esplanade.
- etanercept — A drug that treats autoimmune diseases by interfering with the TNF receptor (part of the immune system).
- ethnoscape — A transnational distribution of correlated people.
- euphonical — (archaic) euphonious; pleasing to the ear.
- 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.
- expandable — Having the capacity to be expanded.
- expansible — Expandable.
- expansibly — in an expansible manner
- expansions — Plural form of expansion.
- expectance — Anticipation, hope.
- expectancy — The state of thinking or hoping that something, especially something pleasant, will happen or be the case.
- expendable — (of an object) Designed to be used only once and then abandoned or destroyed.
- expiration — The ending of the fixed period for which a contract is valid.
- explaining — Present participle of explain.
- explananda — Plural form of explanandum.
- expressman — a person who collects and delivers goods
- expugnable — Capable of being expugned.
- face-plant — to fall onto one's face, esp when skiing or snowboarding
- false pond — a mirage.
- fan-shaped — shaped like a fan
- fee-paying — charging for service
- flagperson — A gender-neutral term for someone who uses a flag, especially as a form of signalling.
- floatplane — a seaplane having landing gear consisting of one or more floats.
- fore plane — a plane, intermediate in size between a jack plane and a jointer plane, used for preliminary smoothing.
- 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.
- frangipane — a kind of pastry cake, filled with cream, almonds, and sugar.
- front-page — of major importance; worth putting on the first page of a newspaper.
- funnel cap — any of various basidiomycetous fungi of the genus Clitocybe, characterized by the funnel-shaped caps and, usually, markedly decurrent gills
- gabapentin — (medicine) A medication, originally used for the treatment of epilepsy but now used to relieve pain.
- 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.
- garden pea — pea1 (defs 1–3).
- gender gap — the differences between women and men, especially as reflected in social, political, intellectual, cultural, or economic attainments or attitudes.
- genophobia — The physical or psychological fear of sexual relations or sexual intercourse.
- geoponical — agricultural
- giant kelp — any of various very large kelps of the genera Laminaria, Macrocystis, and Nereocystis.
- gin palace — (formerly) a gaudy drinking house
- gingersnap — a small, brittle cookie flavored with ginger and molasses.
- 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.
- godparents — Plural form of godparent.
- gramophone — a phonograph.
- granophyre — a fine-grained or porphyritic granitic rock with a micrographic intergrowth of the minerals of the groundmass.
- grape fern — any of several ferns of the genus Botrychium, comprising several species having grapelike clusters of sporangia.
- grapestone — the seed of a grape.