10-letter words containing g, e, o, p
- 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.
- hepatology — (medicine) The study or treatment of the liver, gallbladder, and pancreas.
- heptagonal — having seven sides or angles.
- hieroglyph — Also, hieroglyphical. designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols are conventionalized, recognizable pictures of the things represented.
- hierograph — sacred writing or characters
- high hopes — great expectations
- high-power — (of a rifle) of a sufficiently high muzzle velocity and using a heavy enough bullet to kill large game.
- hodgepodge — a heterogeneous mixture; jumble.
- 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
- hyetograph — a map or chart showing the average rainfall for the localities represented.
- hygiaphone — a glass screen through which an employee may speak to members of the public, eg at a ticket office
- hygrophobe — a plant that grows best with little or no moisture
- hygrophyte — a plant that thrives in wet or very moist ground.
- hygroscope — an instrument that indicates the approximate humidity of the air.
- hypergolic — (especially of rocket-fuel propellant constituents) igniting spontaneously upon contact with a complementary substance.
- hypnogenic — of or relating to the induction of sleep
- hypogenous — growing beneath, or on the undersurface, as fungi on leaves.
- hypogeusia — a disease characterized by a decreased ability to taste and, sometimes, to smell: associated with a zinc deficiency
- hypozeugma — the use of a succession of subjects with a single predicate.
- ideographs — an ideogram.
- ideography — the use of ideograms.
- ignipotent — (poetic) Presiding over fire; fiery.
- impowering — Present participle of impower.
- intergroup — taking place or being between groups: intergroup relationships.
- jeoparding — Present participle of jeopard.
- keep going — persist, continue
- keogh plan — a pension plan for an unincorporated business entity or self-employed person.
- 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.).
- laloplegia — paralysis of the speech organs in which the tongue is not affected.
- logopedics — the study and treatment of speech defects.
- long press — (on a tablet or smartphone) the act of pressing one's finger down on an icon or other part of the screen for several seconds, as to activate a task or access additional options.
- long purse — wealth; riches
- longprimer — in printing, a size of type intermediate between small pica and bourgeois
- longs peak — a peak in N Colorado, in the Rocky Mountain National Park. 14,255 feet (4345 meters).
- macrophage — a large white blood cell, occurring principally in connective tissue and in the bloodstream, that ingests foreign particles and infectious microorganisms by phagocytosis.
- mareograph — marigraph.
- megalopsia — macropsia.
- megaphoned — Simple past tense and past participle of megaphone.
- megaphones — Plural form of megaphone.
- megaphonic — Of, or pertaining to, a megaphone.
- megascopic — Visible to the naked eye.
- megaspores — the larger of the two kinds of spores characteristically produced by seed plants and a few fern allies, developing into a female gametophyte. Compare microspore.
- microphage — a small phagocytic cell in blood or lymph, especially a polymorphonuclear leukocyte.
- mimeograph — a printing machine with an ink-fed drum, around which a cut waxed stencil is placed and which rotates as successive sheets of paper are fed into it.
- monoplegia — paralysis of one extremity, muscle, or muscle area.
- morphogene — (genetics) Any gene that is involved in growth or in morphogenesis.
- morphogens — Plural form of morphogen.