10-letter words containing g, y, p
- holography — the process or technique of making holograms.
- homography — The state or quality of being spelt homographically; the state or quality of existing as homographs.
- horography — the art of constructing time-keeping instruments such as watches and clocks
- hyalograph — an instrument used in hyalography.
- hydrograph — a graph of the water level or rate of flow of a body of water as a function of time, showing the seasonal change.
- 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
- hygrograph — a self-recording hygrometer.
- 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.
- hygroscopy — The ability of a substance to attract and hold water molecules from the surrounding environment.
- hypalgesia — decreased sensitivity to pain (opposed to hyperalgesia).
- hyperalgia — an exaggerated sense of pain (opposed to hypalgesia).
- hypergiant — (star) A star that is extremely massive and even more luminous than a supergiant.
- hypergolic — (especially of rocket-fuel propellant constituents) igniting spontaneously upon contact with a complementary substance.
- hypergraph — (mathematics) A generalization of a graph, in which edges can connect any number of vertices.
- hyperlight — Faster than light speed.
- hypnagogia — (medicine) A condition characterized by dreamlike auditory, visual, or tactile sensations when half-awake.
- hypnagogic — of or relating to drowsiness.
- hypnogenic — of or relating to the induction of sleep
- hypnogogic — Alternative spelling of hypnagogic.
- hypnograph — an instrument that measures activities of the human body during 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
- hypogynous — situated on the receptacle beneath the pistil and free of the ovary, as stamens, petals, or sepals.
- hypozeugma — the use of a succession of subjects with a single predicate.
- ideography — the use of ideograms.
- idiography — The study of individuals.
- imposingly — very impressive because of great size, stately appearance, dignity, elegance, etc.: Notre Dame, Rheims, and other imposing cathedrals of France.
- interglyph — a surface between two grooves, as on a triglyph.
- jellygraph — a device that uses a plate of jelly to make copies of a sheet of writing, etc
- kirby grip — type of hairgrip
- kymographs — Plural form of kymograph.
- kymography — The use of a kymograph.
- lexigraphy — (uncountable) The representation of words in writing.
- lipography — unintentional omission in writing, as of a specific letter or syllable.
- lithoglyph — an incision or engraving on a gem or stone
- logography — printing with logotypes.
- lygophilia — The love of darkness.
- lymphogram — A diagnostic image produced by lymphography.
- mapinguary — A legendary red-furred ground-dwelling sloth-like creature said to live in the Amazon rainforests of Brazil and Bolivia.
- mimography — the representation of sign language in writing
- monography — A monograph.
- morphogeny — a biological term denoting the origin and development of morphological forms
- morphology — the branch of biology dealing with the form and structure of organisms.
- mumbly-peg — a children's game played with a pocketknife, the object being to cause the blade to stick in the ground or a wooden surface by flipping the knife in a number of prescribed ways or from a number of prescribed positions.
- necrophagy — The eating of dead or decaying animal flesh.
- negentropy — The entropy that a living thing exports to keep its own entropy low.
- nephrology — the branch of medical science that deals with the kidney.