10-letter words containing m, p, s
- gipsy moth — a European moth, Lymantria dispar, introduced into North America, where it is a serious pest of shade trees: family Lymantriidae (or Liparidae)
- gomphiasis — looseness of the teeth.
- goosebumps — Plural form of goosebump.
- graphemics — the study of writing systems and of their relation to speech.
- groupmates — Plural form of groupmate.
- grumpiness — The state, or act, of being grumpy.
- gymnoplast — a mass of protoplasm without an enclosing wall.
- gymnosperm — a vascular plant having seeds that are not enclosed in an ovary; a conifer or cycad.
- gymnospore — a naked spore, especially one not produced in a sporangium or one lacking a protective envelope.
- gypsy moth — a moth, Porthetria dispar, introduced into the U.S. from Europe, the larvae of which feed on the foliage of shade and other trees.
- ham sth up — If actors or actresses ham it up, they exaggerate every emotion and gesture when they are acting, often deliberately because they think that the audience will be more amused.
- hammerkops — Plural form of hammerkop.
- hemisphere — (often initial capital letter) half of the terrestrial globe or celestial sphere, especially one of the halves into which the earth is divided. Compare Eastern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere, Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere.
- 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.
- hemoptysis — the expectoration of blood or bloody mucus.
- hetmanship — the position of a hetman
- hippomanes — (formerly) a substance found on the forehead of a newborn foal or obtained from a mare in foal, thought to act as an aphrodisiac
- hippomenes — the successful suitor of Atalanta.
- hippotamus — Obsolete spelling and common present-day misspelling of hippopotamus.
- hipsterdom — The state of being a hipster.
- hipsterism — the style of life of a hipster.
- home scrap — scrap steel reprocessed in the steel mill in which it was produced.
- homographs — a word of the same written form as another but of different meaning and usually origin, whether pronounced the same way or not, as bear 1 “to carry; support” and bear 2 “animal” or lead 1 “to conduct” and lead 2 “metal.”.
- homophiles — Plural form of homophile.
- homophobes — Plural form of homophobe.
- homophones — Phonetics. a word pronounced the same as another but differing in meaning, whether spelled the same way or not, as heir and air.
- homosphere — The lower part of the atmosphere, up to about sixty miles, in which there is no great change in its composition.
- hyaloplasm — ground substance.
- hyperosmia — an abnormally acute sense of smell.
- hyperosmic — Of, pertaining to, or affected by hyperosmia.
- hypocorism — a pet name.
- hypodermis — Zoology. an underlayer of epithelial cells in arthropods and certain other invertebrates that secretes substances for the overlying cuticle or exoskeleton.
- hypomnesia — Deficiency of the memory.
- hyponymous — a term that denotes a subcategory of a more general class: “Chair” and “table” are hyponyms of “furniture.”. Compare superordinate (def 4).
- hypsometer — thermobarometer (def 1).
- hypsometry — vertical control in mapping; the establishment of elevations or altitudes.
- impactions — Plural form of impaction.
- impaludism — a diseased state affecting the inhabitants of marshy areas
- imparadise — to enrapture.
- imparities — Plural form of imparity.
- impassable — not passable; not allowing passage over, through, along, etc.: Heavy snow made the roads impassable.
- impassably — In an impassable manner.
- impassible — incapable of suffering pain.
- impassibly — In an impassible manner.
- impassions — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of impassion.
- impedances — Plural form of impedance.
- imperators — Plural form of imperator.
- imperfects — Plural form of imperfect.
- impersonal — not personal; without reference or connection to a particular person: an impersonal remark.
- impervious — not permitting penetration or passage; impenetrable: The coat is impervious to rain.