10-letter words containing n, a, p, i
- 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.
- gnaphalium — Any of the genus Gnaphalium of flowering plants, the cudweeds.
- grand prix — (sometimes lowercase) any of various major automobile races over a long, arduous course, especially an international car race held each year over the same course.
- grapevines — Plural form of grapevine.
- grapplings — Plural form of grappling.
- graspingly — In a grasping manner.
- grass pink — a pink, Dianthus plumarius, of Europe and Asia, having fragrant, fringed pink, purplish, or white flowers.
- guinea pig — a short-eared, tailless rodent of the genus Cavia, usually white, black, and tawny, commonly regarded as the domesticated form of one of the South American wild species of cavy: often used in scientific experiments or kept as a pet.
- gynephobia — an abnormal fear of women.
- gynophobia — Extreme or irrational fear of women or of the female.
- hairspring — a fine, usually spiral, spring used for oscillating the balance of a timepiece.
- half snipe — jacksnipe (def 1).
- hand-piece — handheld, power-operated shears used by a shearer
- hand-spike — a bar used as a lever.
- handpicked — Picked by hand; picked or selected with care.
- handpieces — Plural form of handpiece.
- handprints — Plural form of handprint.
- handspikes — Plural form of handspike.
- handspring — an acrobatic feat in which one starts from a standing position and wheels the body forward or backward in a complete circle, landing first on the hands and then on the feet, without contact by the rest of the body.
- hang it up — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- 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
- happenings — something that happens; occurrence; event.
- harpooning — Present participle of harpoon.
- headspring — the fountainhead or source of a stream.
- hemianopia — any of several conditions in which there is blindness in half of the visual field, involving one or both eyes.
- hemianopic — having or relating to hemianopia
- hemipteran — hemipterous.
- heparinize — Add heparin to (blood or a container about to be filled with blood) to prevent it from coagulating.
- heptatonic — (of a musical scale) comprising seven notes
- herpangina — an infectious disease, especially of children, characterized by a sudden occurrence of fever, loss of appetite, and throat ulcerations, caused by a Coxsackie virus.
- hetmanship — the position of a hetman
- hierophant — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
- hierophany — A physical manifestation of the holy or sacred, serving as a spiritual eidolon for emulation or worship.
- 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
- hippomania — A passion for horses.
- hispanidad — hispanism, especially as directed toward political objectives.
- hispaniola — an island in the West Indies, comprising the republic of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. 29,843 sq. mi. (77,293 sq. km).
- hopsacking — bagging made chiefly of hemp and jute.
- hygiaphone — a glass screen through which an employee may speak to members of the public, eg at a ticket office
- hypanthium — a cup-shaped or tubular body formed by the conjoined sepals, petals, and stamens.
- hypergiant — (star) A star that is extremely massive and even more luminous than a supergiant.
- hypermania — excessive excitement or enthusiasm; craze: The country has a mania for soccer.
- hypermanic — pertaining to or affected by mania.
- hypertonia — increased rigidity, tension, and spasticity of the muscles.
- hypnagogia — (medicine) A condition characterized by dreamlike auditory, visual, or tactile sensations when half-awake.
- hypnagogic — of or relating to drowsiness.
- hypnopedia — sleep learning.
- hypoadenia — a deficiency of glandular activity.
- hypocapnia — (medicine) A state of reduced carbon dioxide in the blood.
- hypodorian — denoting a plagal mode represented by the ascending diatonic scale from A to A