10-letter words containing o, n, p
- gros point — a large stitch used in embroidery. Compare petit point (def 1), tent stitch.
- ground pea — peanut.
- groundplot — Aeronautics. a method for obtaining the position of an aircraft by multiplying its groundspeed by its time in flight and marking off the product with respect to its starting position.
- groundprox — a device that alerts a pilot of a passenger aircraft when the altitude falls below a certain level
- groupthink — the practice of approaching problems or issues as matters that are best dealt with by consensus of a group rather than by individuals acting independently; conformity.
- gunpersons — Plural form of gunperson.
- 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.
- gynephobia — an abnormal fear of women.
- gynophilic — Woman-loving.
- gynophobia — Extreme or irrational fear of women or of the female.
- gynophobic — relating to a dread or hatred of women
- gynophores — Plural form of gynophore.
- half-pound — a unit of weight equal to 8 ounces avoirdupois (0.227 kilogram) or 6 ounces troy or apothecaries' weight (0.187 kilogram).
- handphones — Plural form of handphone.
- 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
- harpooneer — A harpooner.
- harpooning — Present participle of harpoon.
- headphones — Audio. a headset designed for use with a stereo system.
- hellespont — ancient name of the Dardanelles.
- 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
- 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
- hesperinos — vesper (def 3).
- 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.
- high point — a city in central North Carolina.
- hippocrene — a spring on Mount Helicon sacred to the Muses and regarded as a source of poetic inspiration.
- 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.
- hippomenes — the successful suitor of Atalanta.
- hispaniola — an island in the West Indies, comprising the republic of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. 29,843 sq. mi. (77,293 sq. km).
- hog peanut — a twining plant, Amphicarpaea bracteata, of the legume family, bearing pods that ripen in or on the ground.
- holdup man — a person who commits an armed robbery.
- homophones — Phonetics. a word pronounced the same as another but differing in meaning, whether spelled the same way or not, as heir and air.
- homophonic — having the same sound.
- homopteran — homopterous.
- honor camp — a prison work camp operating on an honor system.
- hoofprints — Plural form of hoofprint.
- hoop snake — any of several harmless snakes, as the mud snake and rainbow snake, fabled to take its tail in its mouth and roll along like a hoop.
- hop garden — a field of hops
- hopsacking — bagging made chiefly of hemp and jute.
- horn poppy — a European plant, Glaucium flavum, of the poppy family, having yellow flowers, naturalized along sandy shores in eastern North America.
- hot spring — a thermal spring having water warmer than 98°F (37°C): the water is usually heated by emanation from or passage near hot or molten rock.
- housephone — a telephone, used for making calls within a hotel or apartment house, that does not have a direct line to an exchange and whose calls are routed through the building's switchboard.