10-letter words containing i, o, n, t, p
- exceptions — A person or thing that is excluded from a general statement or does not follow a rule.
- excerption — The act of excerpting or selecting.
- exemptions — Plural form of exemption.
- expedition — A journey or voyage undertaken by a group of people with a particular purpose, especially that of exploration, scientific research, or war.
- expiration — The ending of the fixed period for which a contract is valid.
- exploiting — Present participle of exploit.
- exposition — A comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory.
- expunction — The act of expunging or erasing.
- fess point — the central point of an escutcheon.
- fingerpost — A post at a road junction from which signs project in the direction of the place or route indicated.
- fire point — the lowest temperature at which a volatile liquid, after its vapors have been ignited, will give off vapors at a rate sufficient to sustain combustion.
- flashpoint — Also, flashing point. Physical Chemistry. the lowest temperature at which a liquid in a specified apparatus will give off sufficient vapor to ignite momentarily on application of a flame.
- flex point — a point on a curve at which the curvature changes from convex to concave or vice versa.
- flyposting — the posting of advertising or political bills, posters, etc in unauthorized places
- footprints — Plural form of footprint.
- fortepiano — a piano of the late 18th and early 19th centuries with greater clarity but less volume, resonance, and dynamic range than a modern grand, revived in the late 20th century for the performance of the music of its period.
- game point — (in tennis, squash, handball, etc.) the point that if won would enable the scorer or the scorer's side to win the game.
- genotyping — Present participle of genotype.
- gold point — the point at which it is equally expensive to buy, sell, export, import, or exchange gold in adjustment of foreign claims or counterclaims.
- 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.
- haplobiont — an organism, esp a plant, that exists in either the diploid form or the haploid form (but never alternates between these forms) during its life cycle
- hemipteron — Alternative form of hemipteran.
- heptatonic — (of a musical scale) comprising seven notes
- hierophant — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
- high point — a city in central North Carolina.
- hoofprints — Plural form of hoofprint.
- 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.
- hypertonia — increased rigidity, tension, and spasticity of the muscles.
- hypertonic — Physiology. of or relating to hypertonia.
- hypnotised — Simple past tense and past participle of hypnotise.
- hypnotises — to put in the hypnotic state.
- hypnotists — Plural form of hypnotist.
- hypnotized — to put in the hypnotic state.
- hypnotizer — One who, or that which, hypnotizes.
- hypnotizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hypnotize.
- hypocretin — Either of the peptide hormones orexin.
- idempotent — unchanged when multiplied by itself.
- ignipotent — (poetic) Presiding over fire; fiery.
- impactions — Plural form of impaction.
- impanation — the doctrine that the body and blood of Christ are in the bread and wine after consecration.
- imployment — Obsolete spelling of employment.
- import ban — a ban on the importation of certain products from a certain country into the home country
- importance — the quality or state of being important; consequence; significance.
- importancy — (obsolete) importance; significance.
- importuned — Simple past tense and past participle of importune.
- importuner — One who importunes.
- importunes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of importune.
- imposition — the laying on of something as a burden or obligation.
- impotently — not potent; lacking power or ability.