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10-letter words containing n, a, p, r

  • eruptional — relating to volcanic eruption
  • escarpment — A long, steep slope, especially one at the edge of a plateau or separating areas of land at different heights.
  • etanercept — A drug that treats autoimmune diseases by interfering with the TNF receptor (part of the immune system).
  • euphoriant — A drug which produces feelings of euphoria.
  • expiration — The ending of the fixed period for which a contract is valid.
  • expressman — a person who collects and delivers goods
  • flagperson — A gender-neutral term for someone who uses a flag, especially as a form of signalling.
  • flapdragon — an old game in which the players snatch raisins, plums, etc., out of burning brandy, and eat them.
  • floor plan — a diagram of one room, apartment, or entire floor of a building, usually drawn to scale.
  • fore plane — a plane, intermediate in size between a jack plane and a jointer plane, used for preliminary smoothing.
  • foretopman — a member of a ship's crew stationed on the foretop.
  • fort payne — a town in NE Alabama.
  • fortepiano — a piano of the late 18th and early 19th centuries with greater clarity but less volume, resonance, and dynamic range than a modern grand, revived in the late 20th century for the performance of the music of its period.
  • frangipane — a kind of pastry cake, filled with cream, almonds, and sugar.
  • frangipani — a perfume prepared from or imitating the odor of the flower of a tropical American tree or shrub, Plumeria rubra, of the dogbane family.
  • 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.
  • frappucino — Any of several forms of partially frozen cappuccino coffee.
  • front-page — of major importance; worth putting on the first page of a newspaper.
  • frying pan — A frying pan is a flat metal pan with a long handle, in which you fry food.
  • frying-pan — a shallow, long-handled pan in which food is fried.
  • garden pea — pea1 (defs 1–3).
  • gastroporn — the representation of food in a highly sensual manner
  • gender gap — the differences between women and men, especially as reflected in social, political, intellectual, cultural, or economic attainments or attitudes.
  • gingersnap — a small, brittle cookie flavored with ginger and molasses.
  • godparents — Plural form of godparent.
  • gramophone — a phonograph.
  • gramophony — the art, technique, or practice of recording sound on disc
  • grand chop — (in China and India trade) a customs clearance.
  • grand coup — the trumping of a trick that could have been taken by the winner's partner.
  • 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.
  • grandpapas — Plural form of grandpapa.
  • grandpappy — grandfather.
  • granophyre — a fine-grained or porphyritic granitic rock with a micrographic intergrowth of the minerals of the groundmass.
  • grape fern — any of several ferns of the genus Botrychium, comprising several species having grapelike clusters of sporangia.
  • grapestone — the seed of a grape.
  • grapevines — Plural form of grapevine.
  • graplement — a close fight or a close fighting grasp
  • 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.
  • green peas — peas eaten while fresh and immature
  • green soap — a soap made chiefly from potassium hydroxide and linseed oil, used in treating some skin diseases.
  • greenpeace — an organization founded in 1971 that stresses the need to maintain a balance between human progress and environmental conservation. Members take active but nonviolent measures against what are regarded as threats to environmental safety, such as the dumping of nuclear waste in the sea
  • greenspeak — the jargon used by those who campaign for the conservation of the world's natural resources and the improvement of the environment
  • ground pea — peanut.
  • hairspring — a fine, usually spiral, spring used for oscillating the balance of a timepiece.
  • hand press — a printing press requiring hand operation.
  • hand-spray — an attachment to a shower, sink unit, etc, that is not fixed in place but can instead be moved in order to aid washing
  • handprints — Plural form of handprint.
  • 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.
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