10-letter words containing n, a, p, r
- harpooneer — A harpooner.
- harpooning — Present participle of harpoon.
- headspring — the fountainhead or source of a stream.
- hemipteran — hemipterous.
- heparinize — Add heparin to (blood or a container about to be filled with blood) to prevent it from coagulating.
- heptameron — A literary work whose action covers a period of seven days.
- 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.
- 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.
- homopteran — homopterous.
- honor camp — a prison work camp operating on an honor system.
- hop garden — a field of hops
- hydrophane — a partly translucent variety of opal, which becomes more translucent or transparent when immersed in water.
- hydroplane — a seaplane.
- hypaethron — a part of a building or court which is open to the sky
- hyperbaton — the use, especially for emphasis, of a word order other than the expected or usual one, as in “Bird thou never wert.”.
- 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.
- hypernovae — Plural form of hypernova.
- hyperplane — a subspace of a vector space that has dimension one less than the dimension of the vector space.
- hyperpnoea — abnormally deep or rapid respiration.
- hypertonia — increased rigidity, tension, and spasticity of the muscles.
- hyphenator — One who, or that which, hyphenates.
- hypnodrama — the acting out of a traumatic experience, under hypnosis, by a person undergoing psychotherapy.
- hypnograph — an instrument that measures activities of the human body during sleep.
- hypodorian — denoting a plagal mode represented by the ascending diatonic scale from A to A
- hypothenar — the fleshly prominence on the palm at the base of the little finger.
- iconograph — symbolic representation, especially the conventional meanings attached to an image or images.
- imipramine — a tricyclic antidepressant, C 19 H 24 N 2 , used for the symptomatic relief of depression.
- impairment — the state of being diminished, weakened, or damaged, especially mentally or physically: cognitive impairment in older adults.
- imparlance — an extension of time granted to one party in a lawsuit to plead or to settle the dispute amicably.
- impartance — Impartation.
- impartment — to make known; tell; relate; disclose: to impart a secret.
- impermeant — That cannot permeate through a specified semipermeable membrane.
- impersonal — not personal; without reference or connection to a particular person: an impersonal remark.
- import ban — a ban on the importation of certain products from a certain country into the home country
- importance — the quality or state of being important; consequence; significance.
- importancy — (obsolete) importance; significance.
- impregnant — (obsolete) Not pregnant; unfertilized or infertile.
- impregnate — to make pregnant; get with child or young.
- in plaster — If you have a leg or arm in plaster, you have a cover made of plaster of Paris around your leg or arm, in order to protect a broken bone and allow it to mend.
- in private — belonging to some particular person: private property.
- inapparent — not apparent.
- incaparina — a cheap high-protein food made of cottonseed, sorghum flours, maize, yeast, etc, used, esp in Latin America, to prevent protein-deficiency diseases
- incompared — incomparable; unmatched; unequalled
- incorporal — Obsolete form of incorporeal.
- infraposed — placed beneath
- inoperable — not operable or practicable.
- inoperancy — The quality of being inoperant or inoperative, of lacking the power to be effective or effectual.