11-letter words containing d, e, p, r
- grade point — Education. a numerical equivalent to a received letter grade, usually 0 for F, 1 for D, 2 for C, 3 for B, and 4 for A, that is multiplied by the number of credits for the course: used to compute a grade point average.
- graded post — a position in a school having special responsibility for which additional payment is given
- grand opera — a serious, usually tragic, opera in which most of the text is set to music.
- grandnephew — a son of one's nephew or niece.
- grandparent — a parent of a parent.
- graphitized — (chemistry, of carbon) Converted to graphite.
- green pound — a unit of account used in calculating Britain's contributions to and payments from the Community Agricultural Fund of the EU
- ground pine — any of several species of club moss, especially Lycopodium obscurum or L. complanatum.
- groundspeed — the speed of an aircraft with reference to the ground.
- group speed — the speed at which energy is propagated in a wave. This is the quantity determined when one measures the distance which the radiation travels in a given time. In a medium in which the speed increases with wavelength the group speed is less than the phase speed, and vice versa
- guide price — a speculative price for something not yet offered for sale
- haloperidol — a major antipsychotic agent, C 21 H 23 ClFNO 2 , used in the management of schizophrenia, severe anxiety, and other behavioral disorders.
- hammer pond — an artificial pond for maintaining a head of water at a water mill.
- handicapper — Horse Racing. a racetrack official or employee who assigns the weight a horse must carry in a race. a person employed, as by a newspaper, to make predictions on the outcomes of horse races.
- handyperson — a person who is practiced at doing maintenance work.
- hard palate — Anatomy. the roof of the mouth, consisting of an anterior bony portion (hard palate) and a posterior muscular portion (soft palate) that separate the oral cavity from the nasal cavity.
- hardpressed — Subject to difficulty in accomplishing or making progress.
- headstripes — Plural form of headstripe.
- heartshaped — Alternative form of heart-shaped.
- heparinized — Simple past tense and past participle of heparinize.
- heptahedron — a solid figure having seven faces.
- heptandrous — (of a flower) having seven stamens
- hesperidium — the fruit of a citrus plant, as an orange.
- heteroploid — (biology) Having a chromosome number that is neither the haploid nor the diploid number normal in the species.
- high-priced — expensive; costly: a high-priced camera.
- hipped roof — a roof having sloping ends and sides
- hippodromed — Simple past tense and past participle of hippodrome.
- hippodromes — Plural form of hippodrome.
- holiday rep — A holiday rep is someone employed by a holiday company to help look after people when they are on holiday.
- holographed — to make by the use of holography.
- horn-spread — (of a horned creature) the distance between the outermost tips of the horns.
- horned pout — a bullhead, especially the brown bullhead.
- house-proud — taking pride in one's house and housekeeping.
- humperdinck — Engelbert [eng-uh l-bert;; English eng-guh l-burt] /ˈɛŋ əlˌbɛrt;; English ˈɛŋ gəlˌbɜrt/ (Show IPA), 1854–1921, German composer.
- hydrophones — Plural form of hydrophone.
- hydrophytes — Plural form of hydrophyte.
- hydroplaned — Simple past tense and past participle of hydroplane.
- hydroplaner — a person who pilots a hydroplane, especially a professional speedboat racer.
- hydroplanes — Plural form of hydroplane.
- hydroscopes — Plural form of hydroscope.
- hydrosphere — the water on or surrounding the surface of the globe, including the water of the oceans and the water in the atmosphere.
- hyperboloid — a quadric surface having a finite center and some of its plane sections hyperbolas. Equation: x 2 / a 2 + y 2 / b 2 − z 2 / c 2 = 1.
- hyperdactyl — having an excessive number of fingers or toes
- hyperdorian — of or related to the mode above the Dorian mode in ancient Greek music
- hyperextend — Forcefully extend (a limb or joint ) beyond its normal limits, either in exercise or therapy or so as to cause injury.
- hyperlinked — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperlink.
- hyperlydian — relating to the highest scale or mode in ancient Greek music
- hypermodern — of or relating to present and recent time; not ancient or remote: modern city life.
- hypodermics — Plural form of hypodermic.
- hypoid gear — a gear resembling a bevel gear in form but designed to mesh with a similar gear in such a way that their axes would not intersect, one axis crossing over the other at approximately a right angle.