10-letter words containing a, p, n, g
- hop garden — a field of hops
- hopsacking — bagging made chiefly of hemp and jute.
- hygiaphone — a glass screen through which an employee may speak to members of the public, eg at a ticket office
- hypergiant — (star) A star that is extremely massive and even more luminous than a supergiant.
- hypnagogia — (medicine) A condition characterized by dreamlike auditory, visual, or tactile sensations when half-awake.
- hypnagogic — of or relating to drowsiness.
- hypnograph — an instrument that measures activities of the human body during sleep.
- iconograph — symbolic representation, especially the conventional meanings attached to an image or images.
- impaneling — Present participle of impanel.
- impeaching — Present participle of impeach.
- implanting — Present participle of implant.
- impleading — to sue in a court of law.
- impregnant — (obsolete) Not pregnant; unfertilized or infertile.
- impregnate — to make pregnant; get with child or young.
- impugnable — to challenge as false (another's statements, motives, etc.); cast doubt upon.
- in passing — going by or past; elapsing: He was feeling better with each passing day.
- inspanning — Present participle of inspan.
- intragroup — Taking place within a group, especially within a social group.
- jeoparding — Present participle of jeopard.
- kapfenberg — an industrial town in E Austria, in Styria. Pop: 22 234 (2001)
- keogh plan — a pension plan for an unincorporated business entity or self-employed person.
- kidnapping — to steal, carry off, or abduct by force or fraud, especially for use as a hostage or to extract ransom.
- king plank — a plank running along the center line of a deck, into which all other planks are fitted.
- king prawn — any of several large prawns of the genus Penaeus, which are fished commercially in Australian waters
- kings park — a town in NW Long Island, in SE New York.
- kings peak — a mountain in NE Utah: highest peak in the Uinta Mountains. 13,528 feet (4123 meters).
- 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.
- 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.
- lightplane — a lightweight passenger airplane with relatively limited performance capability.
- lipreading — the reading or understanding, as by a deaf person, of spoken words from the movements of another's lips without hearing the sounds made.
- logansport — a city in N Indiana, on the Wabash River.
- longs peak — a peak in N Colorado, in the Rocky Mountain National Park. 14,255 feet (4345 meters).
- mainspring — the principal spring in a mechanism, as in a watch.
- malpighian — Marcello [mahr-chel-law] /mɑrˈtʃɛl lɔ/ (Show IPA), 1628–94, Italian anatomist.
- manscaping — Present participle of manscape.
- map legend — key to symbols on a map
- mapinguari — Alternative form of mapinguary.
- mapinguary — A legendary red-furred ground-dwelling sloth-like creature said to live in the Amazon rainforests of Brazil and Bolivia.
- megaphoned — Simple past tense and past participle of megaphone.
- megaphones — Plural form of megaphone.
- megaphonic — Of, or pertaining to, a megaphone.
- misplacing — Present participle of misplace.
- misshaping — Present participle of misshape.
- monographs — Plural form of monograph.
- monography — A monograph.
- monophagia — the eating of or craving for only one kind of food.
- monoplegia — paralysis of one extremity, muscle, or muscle area.
- mpumalanga — a province of E South Africa; formed in 1994 (originally as Eastern Transvaal) from part of the former province of Transvaal: agriculture and service industries. Capital: Nelspruit. Pop: 4 039 939 (2011 est). Area: 78 370 sq km (30 259 sq miles)
- mudcapping — the process or act of blasting a rock surface with explosives