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10-letter words containing e, l, p

  • fly-tipper — a person who deliberately dumps rubbish in an unauthorized place
  • flypitcher — a person who has a flypitch
  • flyspeck 3 — (humour)   A standard name for any font that is so tiny as to be unreadable, by analogy with names like "Helvetica 10" for 10-point Helvetica. Legal boilerplate is usually printed in Flyspeck 3.
  • flyspecked — Covered with flyspecks.
  • foodophile — (informal) A food lover.
  • footplates — Plural form of footplate.
  • force play — a situation in which a base runner is forced to advance to a base or to home plate as a result of the batter becoming a base runner or to make room for another base runner.
  • fore plane — a plane, intermediate in size between a jack plane and a jointer plane, used for preliminary smoothing.
  • full speed — the maximum speed.
  • full-power — (of a radio station) able to broadcast up to 100 miles (166 km) under clear atmospheric conditions.
  • funnel cap — any of various basidiomycetous fungi of the genus Clitocybe, characterized by the funnel-shaped caps and, usually, markedly decurrent gills
  • gallopades — Plural form of gallopade.
  • gameplayer — One who plays a game or games.
  • geophilous — Zoology. terrestrial, as certain snails.
  • geoponical — agricultural
  • geospatial — Relating to or denoting data that is associated with a particular location.
  • germ plasm — the protoplasm of the germ cells containing the chromosomes.
  • giant kelp — any of various very large kelps of the genera Laminaria, Macrocystis, and Nereocystis.
  • gin palace — (formerly) a gaudy drinking house
  • girl power — an assertiveness and self-confidence shown by girls and young women
  • give place — to make room
  • glammed up — made to look more glamorous
  • glasspaper — (archaic) sandpaper.
  • 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.
  • glove shop — a shop that sells gloves
  • glucophore — a chemical group responsible for sweetness of taste
  • glycophyte — any plant that will only grow healthily in soils with a low content of sodium salts
  • glyphosate — a compound, C 3 H 8 NO 5 P, used to kill a wide range of weeds.
  • goalkeeper — (in ice hockey, field hockey, lacrosse, soccer, etc.) a player whose chief duty is to prevent the ball or puck from crossing or entering the goal.
  • gold plate — a thin coating of gold, usually produced by electroplating
  • gold-plate — to coat (base metal) with gold, especially by electroplating.
  • goldplated — to coat (base metal) with gold, especially by electroplating.
  • googleplex — Misspelling of googolplex.
  • googolplex — a number that is equal to 1 followed by a googol of zeros and expressed as .
  • gospellize — to evangelise
  • grapelouse — an insect that attacks grape vines
  • grapholect — an established and standardized written language
  • graplement — a close fight or a close fighting grasp
  • 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
  • guadeloupe — two islands (Basse-Terre and Grande-Terre) separated by a narrow channel in the Leeward Islands of the West Indies: together with five dependencies they form an overseas department of France. 687 sq. mi. (1179 sq. km). Capital: Basse-Terre.
  • gulper eel — any deep-sea eel-like fish of the genera Eurypharynx and Saccopharynx and order Lyomeri, having the ability to swallow large prey
  • gypsophile — any plant living or thriving in soil containing gypsum.
  • haemolymph — the blood-like fluid of invertebrates
  • haemophile — a haemophilic bacterium
  • half snipe — jacksnipe (def 1).
  • half-empty — (of a vessel, place, etc) holding or containing half its capacity
  • half-plane — the part of the plane on one side of a straight line of infinite length in the plane.
  • half-plate — a size of plate measuring 61⁄2 × 41⁄4 inches
  • half-price — at a 50% reduction in cost
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