10-letter words containing g, r, a, p
- calligraph — to produce by means of calligraphy: The love letter was calligraphed in a delicate hand.
- campaigner — A campaigner is a person who campaigns for social or political change.
- campground — A campground is the same as a campsite.
- caporegime — the second in command to a capo; Mafia lieutenant.
- caprioling — Present participle of capriole.
- cargo ship — a ship carrying cargo
- carhopping — the practice of serving customers at a drive-in restaurant
- carpetbags — Plural form of carpetbag.
- carphology — the action of grasping at imaginary objects or plucking at one's bed linen, a characteristic of people affected by delirium
- carpooling — Present participle of carpool.
- cartograph — the production of maps, including construction of projections, design, compilation, drafting, and reproduction.
- cerography — the art of engraving on a waxed plate on which a printing surface is created by electrotyping
- charge-cap — (formerly in Britain) to impose on (a local authority) an upper limit on the community charge it may levy
- charged up — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
- chinagraph — a coloured pencil used for writing on china, glass, etc
- chirograph — an indenture
- chorograph — An instrument for constructing triangles in marine surveying, etc.
- clappering — the sound made by using a clapper
- climograph — A chart that summarizes the climate of a place by superimposing a line graph representing average monthly temperature on a bar chart representing average monthly precipitation.
- clinograph — (in mining, construction, etc.) an instrument that records the deviation of boreholes or the like from the vertical.
- collagraph — An artistic print made through the printmaking process of collagraphy.
- colportage — the work of a colporteur.
- copper age — a phase in some human cultures between a Stone Age and a Bronze Age, characterized by the introduction and development of copper tools and weapons: in the Old World this phase is commonly thought of as being part of their Bronze Age
- coprophagy — feeding on dung, as certain beetles.
- cryptogams — Plural form of cryptogam.
- cryptogamy — the state of being a cryptogam
- cryptogram — a secret symbol
- cyclograph — Arcograph.
- de gasperi — Alcide (alˈtʃiːde). 1881–1954, Italian statesman; prime minister (1945–53). An antifascist, he led the Christian Democratic party during World War II from the Vatican City
- demography — Demography is the study of the changes in numbers of births, deaths, marriages, and cases of disease in a community over a period of time.
- depurating — Present participle of depurate.
- despairing — marked by or resulting from despair; hopeless or desperate
- diagraphic — descriptive; relating to illustration by drawing or graphics
- diaphragms — Plural form of diaphragm.
- dictagraph — Alt form dictograph.
- dictograph — a telephonic instrument for secretly monitoring or recording conversations by means of a small, sensitive, and often concealed microphone
- dispairing — Present participle of dispair.
- disparaged — Simple past tense and past participle of disparage.
- disparager — to speak of or treat slightingly; depreciate; belittle: Do not disparage good manners.
- disparages — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disparage.
- disparting — Present participle of dispart.
- dittograph — an instance of dittography; a passage containing reduplicated syllables, letters, etc.
- dollar gap — the difference, measured in U.S. dollars, between the earnings of a foreign country through sales and investments in the U.S. and the payments made by that country to the U.S.
- drag strip — a straight, paved area or course where drag races are held, as a section of road or airplane runway.
- drain plug — A drain plug is a plug which is taken out to allow a fluid to be drained from a tank such as an engine oil pan or sump.
- durga puja — Dasehra.
- dysgraphia — inability to write, caused by cerebral lesion.
- dysgraphic — a person who suffers from dysgraphia
- echography — a device that records oceanic depths by means of sonic waves.
- energy gap — the difference of energy between the bottom of the conduction band and the top of the valence band of the electrons in a crystalline solid. For values below about 2eV the substance is considered to be a semiconductor whilst for higher values it is considered to be an insulator