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

  • grapevines — Plural form of grapevine.
  • graphemics — the study of writing systems and of their relation to speech.
  • grapplings — Plural form of grappling.
  • graspingly — In a grasping manner.
  • grass carp — a large carp of the genus Ctenopharyngodon, of southern Chinese inland waters, that grazes on water weeds.
  • grass pink — a pink, Dianthus plumarius, of Europe and Asia, having fragrant, fringed pink, purplish, or white flowers.
  • 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.
  • greenspeak — the jargon used by those who campaign for the conservation of the world's natural resources and the improvement of the environment
  • groupmates — Plural form of groupmate.
  • hairspring — a fine, usually spiral, spring used for oscillating the balance of a timepiece.
  • handspring — an acrobatic feat in which one starts from a standing position and wheels the body forward or backward in a complete circle, landing first on the hands and then on the feet, without contact by the rest of the body.
  • headspring — the fountainhead or source of a stream.
  • holographs — Plural form of holograph.
  • homographs — a word of the same written form as another but of different meaning and usually origin, whether pronounced the same way or not, as bear 1 “to carry; support” and bear 2 “animal” or lead 1 “to conduct” and lead 2 “metal.”.
  • ideographs — an ideogram.
  • isographic — (in the study of the geographical distribution of a dialect) a line drawn on a map to indicate areas having common linguistic characteristics.
  • kings park — a town in NW Long Island, in SE New York.
  • kymographs — Plural form of kymograph.
  • lagomorphs — Plural form of lagomorph.
  • logansport — a city in N Indiana, on the Wabash River.
  • logographs — Plural form of logograph.
  • lump sugar — sugar in small blocks
  • magstripes — Plural form of magstripe.
  • mainspring — the principal spring in a mechanism, as in a watch.
  • marigraphs — Plural form of marigraph.
  • megaparsec — one million parsecs.
  • 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.
  • misprogram — to program badly or wrongly
  • monographs — Plural form of monograph.
  • nomographs — Plural form of nomograph.
  • nosography — the systematic description of diseases.
  • oleographs — Plural form of oleograph.
  • operagoers — Plural form of operagoer.
  • organ stop — a set of organ pipes allowed to sound as a group by stopping all others
  • orphanages — Plural form of orphanage.
  • palm sugar — sugar from the sap of certain palm trees.
  • panegyrist — a person who panegyrizes; eulogist.
  • parageusia — an abnormal or hallucinatory sense of taste.
  • paraglossa — the outer lobe of the lingua or labium of certain insects
  • paragnosis — knowledge obtained by supernatural means
  • paralogism — argument violating principles of valid reasoning.
  • paraskiing — the sport of jumping off high mountains wearing skis and a light parachute composed of inflatable fabric tubes that form a semirigid wing
  • pasargadae — an ancient ruined city in S Iran, NE of Persepolis: an early capital of ancient Persia; tomb of Cyrus the Great.
  • pasigraphy — a system of writing intelligible to persons of all languages; a universal language
  • pastry bag — a conical tube with a patterned hole at one end, fitted over the opening of a cloth funnel (pastry bag) for shaping icings, food pastes, etc., as they are forced through by squeezing the bag.
  • pellagrous — a disease caused by a deficiency of niacin in the diet, characterized by skin changes, severe nerve dysfunction, mental symptoms, and diarrhea.
  • persiflage — light, bantering talk or writing.
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