10-letter words containing e, l, p
- hoplophobe — (rare) Someone suffering from hoplophobia.
- hospitable — receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously: a hospitable family.
- 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.
- hospitalet — a city in NE Spain, near Barcelona.
- hotel ship — a ship which is moored and used as a hotel
- houseplant — an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.
- humble pie — humility forced upon someone, often under embarrassing conditions; humiliation.
- hump bluey — to carry one's bundle; tramp
- hyalophane — a variety of orthoclase in which some of the potassium is replaced by barium.
- hydrophile — (chemistry) Any hydrophilic substance.
- hydroplane — a seaplane.
- hypaethral — (of a classical building) wholly or partly open to the sky.
- hypalgesia — decreased sensitivity to pain (opposed to hyperalgesia).
- hype cycle — a term coined by Gartner to refer to the five phases he considers a new technology or product to go through from its launch to its stabilization on the market
- hyperalert — fully aware and attentive; wide-awake; keen: an alert mind.
- hyperalgia — an exaggerated sense of pain (opposed to hypalgesia).
- hyperbolas — Plural form of hyperbola.
- hyperboles — Plural form of hyperbole.
- hyperbolic — having the nature of hyperbole; exaggerated.
- hyperdulia — the veneration offered to the Virgin Mary as the most exalted of creatures.
- hyperfocal — relating to the distance beyond which a lens can be focused to produce satisfactory image quality
- hypergolic — (especially of rocket-fuel propellant constituents) igniting spontaneously upon contact with a complementary substance.
- hyperlapse — Lb photography A form of time-lapse photography where the camera is gradually moved across a long distance, such as down a highway, and a frame is captured at each new position.
- hyperlight — Faster than light speed.
- hyperlinks — Plural form of hyperlink.
- hyperlocal — relating to or focused on a very small geographical community, as a neighborhood: hyperlocal news websites; hyperlocal advertising.
- hypermiler — to improve fuel mileage in a motor vehicle, as by adopting certain driving techniques or making design alterations to the vehicle.
- hyperplane — a subspace of a vector space that has dimension one less than the dimension of the vector space.
- hyperploid — having a chromosome number that is greater than but not a multiple of the diploid number.
- hypersleep — (scifi) A form of suspended animation in which the body's functions are not merely slowed down but halted entirely.
- hyphenless — Without a hyphen.
- hypodermal — Zoology. an underlayer of epithelial cells in arthropods and certain other invertebrates that secretes substances for the overlying cuticle or exoskeleton.
- hypohalite — (chemistry) any salt of a hypohalous acid, having a general formula M(OX)n.
- hypomotile — Less than usually motile.
- hypothecal — (microbiology, planktology) Of or pertaining to the hypotheca, the lower half of the shell of certain types of plankton.
- iconophile — a connoisseur of icons or images.
- ideal type — a construct abstracted from experience in which individual elements are combined to form a whole that is conceptually independent of empirical factors or variables, but against which particular examples of the appropriate class found in life can be measured.
- idle speed — engine's slowest speed
- ill temper — bad or irritable disposition.
- impactable — Likely to be impacted.
- impairable — to make or cause to become worse; diminish in ability, value, excellence, etc.; weaken or damage: to impair one's health; to impair negotiations.
- impalement — to fasten, stick, or fix upon a sharpened stake or the like.
- impalpable — not palpable; incapable of being perceived by the sense of touch; intangible.
- 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.
- impartable — Capable of being imparted.
- impartible — not partible; indivisible.
- impassable — not passable; not allowing passage over, through, along, etc.: Heavy snow made the roads impassable.
- impassible — incapable of suffering pain.