10-letter words containing l, p, a
- floor plan — a diagram of one room, apartment, or entire floor of a building, usually drawn to scale.
- flop sweat — a sudden heavy perspiration caused by embarrassment
- flop-eared — having long, drooping ears, as a hound.
- flurazepam — a benzodiazepine, C 21 H 23 ClFN 3 O, used in its hydrochloride form as a sedative and hypnotic in the management of insomnia and to alleviate anxiety states.
- fool's cap — a traditional jester's cap or hood, often multicolored and usually having several drooping peaks from which bells are hung.
- footplates — Plural form of footplate.
- force play — a situation in which a base runner is forced to advance to a base or to home plate as a result of the batter becoming a base runner or to make room for another base runner.
- fore plane — a plane, intermediate in size between a jack plane and a jointer plane, used for preliminary smoothing.
- franz lisp — (language) A MacLisp-like dialect of Lisp, developed primarily for work in symbolic algebra by R. Fateman et al at Ucb in about 1980. It was named after the Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886). Franz Lisp was written in C and includes a compiler called "Liszt". Version: Opus 38.22. Liszt 8.08.
- funnel cap — any of various basidiomycetous fungi of the genus Clitocybe, characterized by the funnel-shaped caps and, usually, markedly decurrent gills
- gallopades — Plural form of gallopade.
- galumphing — to move along heavily and clumsily.
- gameplayer — One who plays a game or games.
- gangplanks — Plural form of gangplank.
- geoponical — agricultural
- geospatial — Relating to or denoting data that is associated with a particular location.
- germ plasm — the protoplasm of the germ cells containing the chromosomes.
- giant kelp — any of various very large kelps of the genera Laminaria, Macrocystis, and Nereocystis.
- gin palace — (formerly) a gaudy drinking house
- give place — to make room
- glammed up — made to look more glamorous
- glasspaper — (archaic) sandpaper.
- glen plaid — a plaid pattern of muted colors or of black or gray and white, especially one in which two dark and two light stripes alternate with four dark and four light stripes, both vertically and horizontally, forming a crossing pattern of irregular checks.
- glyphosate — a compound, C 3 H 8 NO 5 P, used to kill a wide range of weeds.
- gnaphalium — Any of the genus Gnaphalium of flowering plants, the cudweeds.
- goalkeeper — (in ice hockey, field hockey, lacrosse, soccer, etc.) a player whose chief duty is to prevent the ball or puck from crossing or entering the goal.
- gold plate — a thin coating of gold, usually produced by electroplating
- gold-plate — to coat (base metal) with gold, especially by electroplating.
- goldplated — to coat (base metal) with gold, especially by electroplating.
- grapelouse — an insect that attacks grape vines
- graphalloy — a compound of graphite impregnated with Babbitt metal, bronze, copper, gold, etc., used as a low-friction material.
- grapholect — an established and standardized written language
- graphology — the study of handwriting, especially when regarded as an expression of the writer's character, personality, abilities, etc.
- graplement — a close fight or a close fighting grasp
- grapplings — Plural form of grappling.
- graptolite — any colonial animal of the extinct class Graptolithina, most common in the Ordovician and Silurian Periods, thought to be related to the pterobranchs.
- graspingly — In a grasping manner.
- gravel pit — an open cast working for the extraction of gravel
- guadeloupe — two islands (Basse-Terre and Grande-Terre) separated by a narrow channel in the Leeward Islands of the West Indies: together with five dependencies they form an overseas department of France. 687 sq. mi. (1179 sq. km). Capital: Basse-Terre.
- gymnoplast — a mass of protoplasm without an enclosing wall.
- gypsophila — any plant belonging to the genus Gypsophila, of the pink family, native to Mediterranean regions, having small, panicled, pink or white flowers, as baby's breath.
- haemolymph — the blood-like fluid of invertebrates
- haemophile — a haemophilic bacterium
- half snipe — jacksnipe (def 1).
- half-empty — (of a vessel, place, etc) holding or containing half its capacity
- half-plane — the part of the plane on one side of a straight line of infinite length in the plane.
- half-plate — a size of plate measuring 61⁄2 × 41⁄4 inches
- half-pound — a unit of weight equal to 8 ounces avoirdupois (0.227 kilogram) or 6 ounces troy or apothecaries' weight (0.187 kilogram).
- half-price — at a 50% reduction in cost
- halophiles — Plural form of halophile.