10-letter words containing l, p, s
- flophouses — Plural form of flophouse.
- floppiness — tending to flop.
- flowerpots — Plural form of flowerpot.
- flyposting — the posting of advertising or political bills, posters, etc in unauthorized places
- flyspeck 3 — (humour) A standard name for any font that is so tiny as to be unreadable, by analogy with names like "Helvetica 10" for 10-point Helvetica. Legal boilerplate is usually printed in Flyspeck 3.
- flyspecked — Covered with flyspecks.
- followship — the practice of doing what other people suggest, rather than taking the lead
- 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.
- 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.
- full speed — the maximum speed.
- gallopades — Plural form of gallopade.
- gangplanks — Plural form of gangplank.
- geophilous — Zoology. terrestrial, as certain snails.
- geospatial — Relating to or denoting data that is associated with a particular location.
- germ plasm — the protoplasm of the germ cells containing the chromosomes.
- glasspaper — (archaic) sandpaper.
- glove shop — a shop that sells gloves
- glyphosate — a compound, C 3 H 8 NO 5 P, used to kill a wide range of weeds.
- goloptious — voluptuous
- gospellize — to evangelise
- grapelouse — an insect that attacks grape vines
- grapplings — Plural form of grappling.
- graspingly — In a grasping manner.
- 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.
- gypsophile — any plant living or thriving in soil containing gypsum.
- half snipe — jacksnipe (def 1).
- halophiles — Plural form of halophile.
- halophytes — Plural form of halophyte.
- handclasps — Plural form of handclasp.
- haplophase — the haploid portion of an organism's life cycle.
- haplotypes — Plural form of haplotype.
- health spa — a resort or a special building or room where a person may exercise, swim, or otherwise condition the body.
- heelpieces — Plural form of heelpiece.
- heliopause — the boundary of the heliosphere.
- heliopolis — Biblical name On. an ancient ruined city in N Egypt, on the Nile delta.
- helioscope — a telescope for viewing the sun, adapted to protect the eye of the viewer from the sun's glare.
- hellespont — ancient name of the Dardanelles.
- helplessly — unable to help oneself; weak or dependent: a helpless invalid.
- hemophilus — a genus of rod-shaped, parasitic, hemophilic bacteria, certain species of which, as H. influenzae or H. suis, are pathogenic for humans and animals.
- heraldship — the office or position of a herald
- herophilus — died ?280 bc, Greek anatomist in Alexandria. He was the first to distinguish sensory from motor nerves
- hippolytus — Also, Hippolytos [hi-pol-i-tuh s, -tos] /hɪˈpɒl ɪ təs, -ˌtɒs/ (Show IPA). Classical Mythology. the son of Theseus who was falsely accused by his stepmother, Phaedra, of raping her after he had rejected her advances and who was killed by Poseidon in response to the plea of Theseus.
- hispaniola — an island in the West Indies, comprising the republic of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. 29,843 sq. mi. (77,293 sq. km).
- holographs — Plural form of holograph.
- holophrase — a word functioning as a phrase or sentence, as the imperative Go!
- homophiles — Plural form of homophile.
- hopelessly — In a way that shows or causes despair.
- hospitable — receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously: a hospitable family.