10-letter words containing o, p, e, r, a
- expiration — The ending of the fixed period for which a contract is valid.
- expiratory — Of or relating to the exhalation of air from the lungs.
- explicator — A person or thing who explicates.
- explorable — Capable of being explored.
- exportable — Able to be exported.
- exprobrate — (dated) To reproach or upbraid.
- expurgator — One who expurgates.
- extemporal — (archaic) Extemporaneous.
- extirpator — Someone or something that extirpates.
- fetiparous — (of a marsupial) bearing young before they are fully developed.
- flagperson — A gender-neutral term for someone who uses a flag, especially as a form of signalling.
- flameproof — resisting the effect of flames; not readily ignited or burned by flames.
- fleahopper — either of two varieties of small, jumping insects which feed on crops and garden plants. The two main varieties are the garden fleahopper Halticus bractatus and the cotton fleahopper Pseudatomoscelis seriatus
- flop-eared — having long, drooping ears, as a hound.
- forage cap — (formerly) a small, low, undress cap.
- force play — a situation in which a base runner is forced to advance to a base or to home plate as a result of the batter becoming a base runner or to make room for another base runner.
- forcipated — Like a pair of forceps.
- fore plane — a plane, intermediate in size between a jack plane and a jointer plane, used for preliminary smoothing.
- forepassed — already in the past; bygone.
- 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.
- front-page — of major importance; worth putting on the first page of a newspaper.
- gasteropod — Gastropod.
- geographer — a person who specializes in geographical research, delineation, and study.
- geographic — of or relating to geography.
- germaphobe — One who suffers from germaphobia.
- go private — to restore private ownership of a corporation by buying back publicly held stock
- goa powder — a brownish-yellow, odorless, crystalline powder obtained from the wood or the trunk of the Brazilian tree Andira araroba, used as a source of chrysarobin.
- goalkeeper — (in ice hockey, field hockey, lacrosse, soccer, etc.) a player whose chief duty is to prevent the ball or puck from crossing or entering the goal.
- godparents — Plural form of godparent.
- gramophone — a phonograph.
- granophyre — a fine-grained or porphyritic granitic rock with a micrographic intergrowth of the minerals of the groundmass.
- grapelouse — an insect that attacks grape vines
- grapestone — the seed of a grape.
- grapholect — an established and standardized written language
- graptolite — any colonial animal of the extinct class Graptolithina, most common in the Ordovician and Silurian Periods, thought to be related to the pterobranchs.
- gray power — the organized influence exerted by elderly people as a group, especially for social or political purposes or ends.
- green soap — a soap made chiefly from potassium hydroxide and linseed oil, used in treating some skin diseases.
- ground pea — peanut.
- groupmates — Plural form of groupmate.
- hammerkops — Plural form of hammerkop.
- haptometer — a mechanical device for measuring the sense of touch.
- hard power — the ability to achieve one's goals by force, esp military force
- harpooneer — A harpooner.
- hartlepool — a seaport city in NE England.
- hectograph — a process for making copies of a letter, memorandum, etc., from a prepared gelatin surface to which the original writing has been transferred.
- hektograph — to copy with the hectograph.
- heliograph — a device for signaling by means of a movable mirror that reflects beams of light, especially sunlight, to a distance.
- hemitropal — hemitropous