10-letter words containing a, p, e, r, i
- extirpator — Someone or something that extirpates.
- fathership — The state of being a father; fatherhood; paternity.
- fetiparous — (of a marsupial) bearing young before they are fully developed.
- filler cap — a device sealing the filling pipe to the petrol tank in a motor vehicle
- fireplaces — Plural form of fireplace.
- flapperish — in the style of a flapper
- forcipated — Like a pair of forceps.
- 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.
- geographic — of or relating to geography.
- get a grip — regain self-control
- gingersnap — a small, brittle cookie flavored with ginger and molasses.
- go private — to restore private ownership of a corporation by buying back publicly held stock
- grapefruit — a large, roundish, yellow-skinned, edible citrus fruit having a juicy, acid pulp.
- grapevines — Plural form of grapevine.
- graphemics — the study of writing systems and of their relation to speech.
- graphitize — to convert into graphite.
- 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
- hair sheep — any variety of sheep growing hair instead of wool, yielding hides with a finer and tougher grain than those of wool sheep
- hair space — the thinnest metal space used to separate words, symbols, etc.
- hairpieces — Plural form of hairpiece.
- half-price — at a 50% reduction in cost
- harelipped — Usually Offensive. cleft lip.
- haruspices — Plural form of haruspex.
- headspring — the fountainhead or source of a stream.
- headstripe — A stripe of colored feathers on the head of a bird.
- heliograph — a device for signaling by means of a movable mirror that reflects beams of light, especially sunlight, to a distance.
- hemipteral — of or relating to a hemipterous insect
- hemipteran — hemipterous.
- hemitropal — hemitropous
- heparinize — Add heparin to (blood or a container about to be filled with blood) to prevent it from coagulating.
- heraldship — the office or position of a herald
- herb paris — a European plant, Paris quadrifolia, of the lily family, formerly used in medicine.
- hermatypic — reef-building coral.
- herpangina — an infectious disease, especially of children, characterized by a sudden occurrence of fever, loss of appetite, and throat ulcerations, caused by a Coxsackie virus.
- hierograph — sacred writing or characters
- hierophant — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
- hierophany — A physical manifestation of the holy or sacred, serving as a spiritual eidolon for emulation or worship.
- hit parade — a listing or category of popular songs ranked according to their popularity with listeners, usually as shown by sales of records.
- hospitaler — a member of the religious and military order (Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
- hyperaemia — an abnormally large amount of blood in any part of the body.
- hyperalgia — an exaggerated sense of pain (opposed to hypalgesia).
- hyperaphia — abnormal sensitivity to touch.
- hyperbaric — (of an anesthetic) having a specific gravity greater than that of cerebrospinal fluid. Compare hypobaric.
- hyperbatic — relating to a hyperbaton
- hyperdulia — the veneration offered to the Virgin Mary as the most exalted of creatures.
- hypergiant — (star) A star that is extremely massive and even more luminous than a supergiant.
- hypermania — excessive excitement or enthusiasm; craze: The country has a mania for soccer.
- hypermanic — pertaining to or affected by mania.