10-letter words containing a, p, l, n
- hispaniola — an island in the West Indies, comprising the republic of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. 29,843 sq. mi. (77,293 sq. km).
- holdup man — a person who commits an armed robbery.
- houseplant — an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.
- hyalophane — a variety of orthoclase in which some of the potassium is replaced by barium.
- hydroplane — a seaplane.
- hyperplane — a subspace of a vector space that has dimension one less than the dimension of the vector space.
- hypolimnia — Plural form of hypolimnion.
- hypolydian — denoting a plagal mode represented by the diatonic scale from D to D
- impalement — to fasten, stick, or fix upon a sharpened stake or the like.
- impaneling — Present participle of impanel.
- impanelled — Simple past tense and past participle of impanel.
- imparlance — an extension of time granted to one party in a lawsuit to plead or to settle the dispute amicably.
- impersonal — not personal; without reference or connection to a particular person: an impersonal remark.
- implanting — Present participle of implant.
- impleading — to sue in a court of law.
- impugnable — to challenge as false (another's statements, motives, etc.); cast doubt upon.
- impunctual — Not punctual.
- in plaster — If you have a leg or arm in plaster, you have a cover made of plaster of Paris around your leg or arm, in order to protect a broken bone and allow it to mend.
- inch plant — any of several creeping or sprawling tropical American plants of the genus Callisia, having sometimes fragrant flowers in a variety of colors.
- incorporal — Obsolete form of incorporeal.
- inculpable — not culpable; blameless; guiltless.
- inculpably — In an inculpable way; blamelessly.
- inculpated — Simple past tense and past participle of inculpate.
- inculpates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inculpate.
- inexpiable — not to be expiated; not allowing for expiation or atonement: an inexpiable crime.
- inexpiably — In an inexpiable manner or degree; permitting no atonement.
- inoperable — not operable or practicable.
- inspirable — capable of being inspired.
- interplant — to plant (a crop) among another crop, or to plant (land) with a variety of crops
- interplays — Plural form of interplay.
- interplead — to litigate with each other in order to determine which of two parties is the rightful claimant against a third party.
- interpolar — connecting or being between poles: an interpolar flight.
- interposal — (dated) interposure.
- intraplate — (geology) Taking place within a single tectonic plate.
- island-hop — to travel from island to island, especially to visit a series of islands in the same chain or area.
- isopycnals — Plural form of isopycnal.
- jack plane — a plane for rough surfacing.
- jade plant — a succulent shrub, Crassula argentea, of the stonecrop family, native to southern Africa, having fleshy, oval leaves, often grown as a houseplant.
- kannapolis — a town in W North Carolina.
- keogh plan — a pension plan for an unincorporated business entity or self-employed person.
- king plank — a plank running along the center line of a deck, into which all other planks are fitted.
- lagerphone — (Australia) A generally homemade percussion instrument consisting of crown cap beer bottle tops loosely nailed to a pole (often a broom handle) and a board mounted cross-ways on the pole (the head of the broom), and played by striking the pole on the ground or with a stick, by drawing the serrated stick across the pole, or by shaking the instrument. (From 1952.).
- lagniappes — Plural form of lagniappe.
- lampoonery — a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc.
- lampooning — a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc.
- lampoonist — One who lampoons.
- land power — a nation having an important and powerful army.
- landlouper — A vagabond; a vagrant.
- landscaped — Simple past tense and past participle of landscape.
- landscaper — a gardener who does landscape gardening.