10-letter words containing l, i, t, p
- etioplasts — Plural form of etioplast.
- euplastics — the art of healing well
- eutrapelia — the quality of being skilled in conversation; wit; urbanity
- exit pupil — the smallest cross section of the beam of light from the eyepiece of a telescope through which all the light from the eyepiece passes. Its diameter is equal to the ratio of the focal length of the eyepiece to the focal ratio of the telescope
- expeditely — in an expedite manner
- expletives — Plural form of expletive.
- explicated — Simple past tense and past participle of explicate.
- explicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of explicate.
- explicator — A person or thing who explicates.
- explicitly — In an explicit manner.
- exploitate — (proscribed, nonstandard, transitive) To exploit.
- exploiters — Plural form of exploiter.
- exploiting — Present participle of exploit.
- exploitive — Exploitative: taking advantage of someone.
- extirpable — Capable of being extirpated or eradicated.
- felspathic — feldspathic.
- field stop — the aperture that limits the field of view of a lens or system of lenses.
- field trip — a trip by students to gain firsthand knowledge away from the classroom, as to a museum, factory, geological area, or environment of certain plants and animals.
- fieldstrip — To disassemble a weapon for cleaning, oiling or repair.
- film strip — a length of film containing a series of related transparencies for projection on a screen.
- filmstrips — Plural form of filmstrip.
- filter tip — a mouthpiece for a cigarette or cigar having a means of filtering the smoke.
- fishplates — Plural form of fishplate.
- fittipaldi — Emerson. born 1946, Brazilian motor-racing driver: Formula One world champion (1972,1974)
- 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.
- flight cap — a wedge-shaped cap of cotton or woolen fabric, worn as part of the service uniform.
- flight pay — a pay supplement allowed by the U.S. Air Force to certain crew members who attain a minimum flight time per month.
- flip chart — a set of sheets, as of cardboard or paper, hinged at the top so that they can be flipped over to show information or illustrations in sequence.
- flippantly — frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by levity: The audience was shocked by his flippant remarks about patriotism.
- fly-tipper — a person who deliberately dumps rubbish in an unauthorized place
- flypitcher — a person who has a flypitch
- flyposting — the posting of advertising or political bills, posters, etc in unauthorized places
- flytipping — Alternative form of fly-tipping.
- geospatial — Relating to or denoting data that is associated with a particular location.
- giant kelp — any of various very large kelps of the genera Laminaria, Macrocystis, and Nereocystis.
- 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.
- goloptious — voluptuous
- graptolite — any colonial animal of the extinct class Graptolithina, most common in the Ordovician and Silurian Periods, thought to be related to the pterobranchs.
- gravel pit — an open cast working for the extraction of gravel
- guilt-trip — Informal. to attempt to instill a guilt trip in; play upon the guilt feelings of. See also guilt (def 4).
- gyro pilot — automatic pilot.
- halophytic — Growing well under salty conditions.
- 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
- haptically — By means of touch.
- helicopter — any of a class of heavier-than-air craft that are lifted and sustained in the air horizontally by rotating wings or blades turning on vertical axes through power supplied by an engine.
- heliophyte — a plant that grows best in full sunlight.
- heliotrope — any hairy plant belonging to the genus Heliotropium, of the borage family, as H. arborescens, cultivated for its small, fragrant purple flowers.
- heliotropy — the growth of plants in a particular direction as a response to the stimulus of light, heliotropism
- hemipteral — of or relating to a hemipterous insect