10-letter words containing n, e, p, t
- externship — An experiential learning opportunity, usually offered by a school, similar to an internship, but generally shorter in duration.
- face-plant — to fall onto one's face, esp when skiing or snowboarding
- fence post — stake or picket of a fence
- fess point — the central point of an escutcheon.
- fiftypenny — noting a nail 5½ inches (14 cm) long. Abbreviation: 50d.
- fine print — printed matter in small-sized type.
- fingerpost — A post at a road junction from which signs project in the direction of the place or route indicated.
- fingertips — the tip or end of a finger.
- fire point — the lowest temperature at which a volatile liquid, after its vapors have been ignited, will give off vapors at a rate sufficient to sustain combustion.
- flex point — a point on a curve at which the curvature changes from convex to concave or vice versa.
- floatplane — a seaplane having landing gear consisting of one or more floats.
- foretopman — a member of a ship's crew stationed on the foretop.
- foretopmen — Plural form of foretopman.
- 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.
- fortypenny — being 5 inches (13 cm) long: a fortypenny nail. Symbol: 40d.
- front-page — of major importance; worth putting on the first page of a newspaper.
- gabapentin — (medicine) A medication, originally used for the treatment of epilepsy but now used to relieve pain.
- game point — (in tennis, squash, handball, etc.) the point that if won would enable the scorer or the scorer's side to win the game.
- genotyping — Present participle of genotype.
- giant kelp — any of various very large kelps of the genera Laminaria, Macrocystis, and Nereocystis.
- gnetophyte — Any of the plant division Gnetophyta, consisting of woody plants that differ from other gymnosperms in having vessel elements (which transport water within the plant) as found in flowering plants.
- godparents — Plural form of godparent.
- grapestone — the seed of a grape.
- graplement — a close fight or a close fighting grasp
- greenstrip — any vegetation that does not burn easily, left uncut or planted along a roadway or waterway, usually to prevent wildfires.
- hellespont — ancient name of the Dardanelles.
- hemipteran — hemipterous.
- hemipteron — Alternative form of hemipteran.
- heptagonal — having seven sides or angles.
- heptameron — A literary work whose action covers a period of seven days.
- heptathlon — an athletic contest for women comprising seven different track-and-field events and won by the contestant amassing the highest total score.
- heptatonic — (of a musical scale) comprising seven notes
- hetmanship — the position of a hetman
- hierophant — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
- hip-length — reaching to or covering the hips, as clothing: a hiplength sweater.
- hog peanut — a twining plant, Amphicarpaea bracteata, of the legume family, bearing pods that ripen in or on the ground.
- homopteran — homopterous.
- houseplant — an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.
- 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.
- hypertense — extremely or abnormally tense, excitable, or snappish.
- hypertonia — increased rigidity, tension, and spasticity of the muscles.
- hypertonic — Physiology. of or relating to hypertonia.
- hyphenated — of or relating to something of distinct form or origin that has been joined; connected by a hyphen.
- hyphenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hyphenate.
- hyphenator — One who, or that which, hyphenates.
- hypnotised — Simple past tense and past participle of hypnotise.
- hypnotises — to put in the hypnotic state.