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10-letter words containing g, a, r, e, p

  • expurgator — One who expurgates.
  • flagperson — A gender-neutral term for someone who uses a flag, especially as a form of signalling.
  • forage cap — (formerly) a small, low, undress cap.
  • frangipane — a kind of pastry cake, filled with cream, almonds, and sugar.
  • front-page — of major importance; worth putting on the first page of a newspaper.
  • gamekeeper — a person employed, as on an estate or game preserve, to prevent poaching and provide a natural environment conducive to the propagation of game, as by thinning brush, scattering food after a snowstorm, and the like.
  • gameplayer — One who plays a game or games.
  • garden pea — pea1 (defs 1–3).
  • gasteropod — Gastropod.
  • gatekeeper — a person in charge of a gate, usually to identify, count, supervise, etc., the traffic or flow through it.
  • gender gap — the differences between women and men, especially as reflected in social, political, intellectual, cultural, or economic attainments or attitudes.
  • geographer — a person who specializes in geographical research, delineation, and study.
  • geographic — of or relating to geography.
  • germ plasm — the protoplasm of the germ cells containing the chromosomes.
  • germaphobe — One who suffers from germaphobia.
  • get a grip — regain self-control
  • gingersnap — a small, brittle cookie flavored with ginger and molasses.
  • glasspaper — (archaic) sandpaper.
  • go private — to restore private ownership of a corporation by buying back publicly held stock
  • goa powder — a brownish-yellow, odorless, crystalline powder obtained from the wood or the trunk of the Brazilian tree Andira araroba, used as a source of chrysarobin.
  • 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.
  • godparents — Plural form of godparent.
  • gramophone — a phonograph.
  • granophyre — a fine-grained or porphyritic granitic rock with a micrographic intergrowth of the minerals of the groundmass.
  • grape fern — any of several ferns of the genus Botrychium, comprising several species having grapelike clusters of sporangia.
  • grapefruit — a large, roundish, yellow-skinned, edible citrus fruit having a juicy, acid pulp.
  • grapelouse — an insect that attacks grape vines
  • grapestone — the seed of a grape.
  • grapevines — Plural form of grapevine.
  • graphemics — the study of writing systems and of their relation to speech.
  • graphitize — to convert into graphite.
  • 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
  • gray power — the organized influence exerted by elderly people as a group, especially for social or political purposes or ends.
  • grays peak — a mountain in N central Colorado; highest point in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. 14,270 feet (4352 meters).
  • grease cup — oilcup.
  • green peas — peas eaten while fresh and immature
  • green soap — a soap made chiefly from potassium hydroxide and linseed oil, used in treating some skin diseases.
  • greenpeace — an organization founded in 1971 that stresses the need to maintain a balance between human progress and environmental conservation. Members take active but nonviolent measures against what are regarded as threats to environmental safety, such as the dumping of nuclear waste in the sea
  • greenspeak — the jargon used by those who campaign for the conservation of the world's natural resources and the improvement of the environment
  • ground pea — peanut.
  • groupmates — Plural form of groupmate.
  • headspring — the fountainhead or source of a stream.
  • hectograph — a process for making copies of a letter, memorandum, etc., from a prepared gelatin surface to which the original writing has been transferred.
  • hektograph — to copy with the hectograph.
  • heliograph — a device for signaling by means of a movable mirror that reflects beams of light, especially sunlight, to a distance.
  • herpangina — an infectious disease, especially of children, characterized by a sudden occurrence of fever, loss of appetite, and throat ulcerations, caused by a Coxsackie virus.
  • hierograph — sacred writing or characters
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