10-letter words containing g, e, n, a, p
- gender gap — the differences between women and men, especially as reflected in social, political, intellectual, cultural, or economic attainments or attitudes.
- genophobia — The physical or psychological fear of sexual relations or sexual intercourse.
- geoponical — agricultural
- giant kelp — any of various very large kelps of the genera Laminaria, Macrocystis, and Nereocystis.
- gin palace — (formerly) a gaudy drinking house
- gingersnap — a small, brittle cookie flavored with ginger and molasses.
- 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.
- 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.
- grapestone — the seed of a grape.
- grapevines — Plural form of grapevine.
- graplement — a close fight or a close fighting grasp
- 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.
- guinea pig — a short-eared, tailless rodent of the genus Cavia, usually white, black, and tawny, commonly regarded as the domesticated form of one of the South American wild species of cavy: often used in scientific experiments or kept as a pet.
- gynephobia — an abnormal fear of women.
- happenings — something that happens; occurrence; event.
- headspring — the fountainhead or source of a stream.
- heptagonal — having seven sides or angles.
- 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.
- hog peanut — a twining plant, Amphicarpaea bracteata, of the legume family, bearing pods that ripen in or on the ground.
- hop garden — a field of hops
- 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.
- impaneling — Present participle of impanel.
- impeaching — Present participle of impeach.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- longs peak — a peak in N Colorado, in the Rocky Mountain National Park. 14,255 feet (4345 meters).
- map legend — key to symbols on a map
- megaphoned — Simple past tense and past participle of megaphone.
- megaphones — Plural form of megaphone.
- megaphonic — Of, or pertaining to, a megaphone.
- monoplegia — paralysis of one extremity, muscle, or muscle area.
- necrophage — An organism that eats dead or decaying flesh.