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10-letter words containing g, r, i, p, n

  • enwrapping — Present participle of enwrap.
  • epeirogeny — (geomorphology) broad regional upwarp of the cratonic portions of continents.
  • excerpting — Present participle of excerpt.
  • expressing — Present participle of express.
  • fingerpick — a plectrum.worn on the finger.
  • fingerpost — A post at a road junction from which signs project in the direction of the place or route indicated.
  • fingertips — the tip or end of a finger.
  • firing pin — a plunger in the firing mechanism of a firearm or cannon that strikes the cartridge primer, igniting the propelling charge.
  • frangipane — a kind of pastry cake, filled with cream, almonds, and sugar.
  • frangipani — a perfume prepared from or imitating the odor of the flower of a tropical American tree or shrub, Plumeria rubra, of the dogbane family.
  • frying pan — A frying pan is a flat metal pan with a long handle, in which you fry food.
  • frying-pan — a shallow, long-handled pan in which food is fried.
  • gingersnap — a small, brittle cookie flavored with ginger and molasses.
  • grand prix — (sometimes lowercase) any of various major automobile races over a long, arduous course, especially an international car race held each year over the same course.
  • grapevines — Plural form of grapevine.
  • grapplings — Plural form of grappling.
  • graspingly — In a grasping manner.
  • grass pink — a pink, Dianthus plumarius, of Europe and Asia, having fragrant, fringed pink, purplish, or white flowers.
  • greenstrip — any vegetation that does not burn easily, left uncut or planted along a roadway or waterway, usually to prevent wildfires.
  • grippingly — In a gripping manner.
  • gros point — a large stitch used in embroidery. Compare petit point (def 1), tent stitch.
  • groupthink — the practice of approaching problems or issues as matters that are best dealt with by consensus of a group rather than by individuals acting independently; conformity.
  • grumpiness — The state, or act, of being grumpy.
  • 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.
  • harpooning — Present participle of harpoon.
  • headspring — the fountainhead or source of a stream.
  • 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.
  • hot spring — a thermal spring having water warmer than 98°F (37°C): the water is usually heated by emanation from or passage near hot or molten rock.
  • hypergiant — (star) A star that is extremely massive and even more luminous than a supergiant.
  • iconograph — symbolic representation, especially the conventional meanings attached to an image or images.
  • imperiling — Present participle of imperil.
  • impowering — Present participle of impower.
  • impregnant — (obsolete) Not pregnant; unfertilized or infertile.
  • impregnate — to make pregnant; get with child or young.
  • impressing — to press or force into public service, as sailors.
  • imprinting — a mark made by pressure; a mark or figure impressed or printed on something.
  • impurpling — Present participle of impurple.
  • inpourings — Plural form of inpouring.
  • interglyph — a surface between two grooves, as on a triglyph.
  • intergroup — taking place or being between groups: intergroup relationships.
  • intragroup — Taking place within a group, especially within a social group.
  • jeoparding — Present participle of jeopard.
  • king prawn — any of several large prawns of the genus Penaeus, which are fished commercially in Australian waters
  • kings park — a town in NW Long Island, in SE New York.
  • 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.
  • longprimer — in printing, a size of type intermediate between small pica and bourgeois
  • mainspring — the principal spring in a mechanism, as in a watch.
  • mapinguari — Alternative form of mapinguary.
  • mapinguary — A legendary red-furred ground-dwelling sloth-like creature said to live in the Amazon rainforests of Brazil and Bolivia.
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