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10-letter words containing p, a, g, o

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • graphalloy — a compound of graphite impregnated with Babbitt metal, bronze, copper, gold, etc., used as a low-friction material.
  • graphitoid — resembling graphite
  • grapholect — an established and standardized written language
  • graphology — the study of handwriting, especially when regarded as an expression of the writer's character, personality, abilities, etc.
  • 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.
  • grow apart — friends: become less intimate
  • guadeloupe — two islands (Basse-Terre and Grande-Terre) separated by a narrow channel in the Leeward Islands of the West Indies: together with five dependencies they form an overseas department of France. 687 sq. mi. (1179 sq. km). Capital: Basse-Terre.
  • gymnoplast — a mass of protoplasm without an enclosing wall.
  • gynephobia — an abnormal fear of women.
  • gynophobia — Extreme or irrational fear of women or of the female.
  • gypsophila — any plant belonging to the genus Gypsophila, of the pink family, native to Mediterranean regions, having small, panicled, pink or white flowers, as baby's breath.
  • hagioscope — squint (def 13).
  • haplogroup — Genetics. a set of similar haplotypes inherited together, or a group who shares a set of similar haplotypes, used to understand genetic lineages.
  • harpooning — Present participle of harpoon.
  • 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.
  • hepatology — (medicine) The study or treatment of the liver, gallbladder, and pancreas.
  • heptagonal — having seven sides or angles.
  • hierograph — sacred writing or characters
  • hippophagy — the practice of eating horseflesh.
  • hog peanut — a twining plant, Amphicarpaea bracteata, of the legume family, bearing pods that ripen in or on the ground.
  • holographs — Plural form of holograph.
  • holography — the process or technique of making holograms.
  • homographs — a word of the same written form as another but of different meaning and usually origin, whether pronounced the same way or not, as bear 1 “to carry; support” and bear 2 “animal” or lead 1 “to conduct” and lead 2 “metal.”.
  • homography — The state or quality of being spelt homographically; the state or quality of existing as homographs.
  • hop garden — a field of hops
  • hopsacking — bagging made chiefly of hemp and jute.
  • horography — the art of constructing time-keeping instruments such as watches and clocks
  • hyalograph — an instrument used in hyalography.
  • hydrograph — a graph of the water level or rate of flow of a body of water as a function of time, showing the seasonal change.
  • hyetograph — a map or chart showing the average rainfall for the localities represented.
  • hygiaphone — a glass screen through which an employee may speak to members of the public, eg at a ticket office
  • hygrograph — a self-recording hygrometer.
  • hypnagogia — (medicine) A condition characterized by dreamlike auditory, visual, or tactile sensations when half-awake.
  • hypnagogic — of or relating to drowsiness.
  • hypnograph — an instrument that measures activities of the human body during sleep.
  • hypogeusia — a disease characterized by a decreased ability to taste and, sometimes, to smell: associated with a zinc deficiency
  • hypozeugma — the use of a succession of subjects with a single predicate.
  • iconograph — symbolic representation, especially the conventional meanings attached to an image or images.
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