10-letter words containing p, a, n, g
- gabapentin — (medicine) A medication, originally used for the treatment of epilepsy but now used to relieve pain.
- galumphing — to move along heavily and clumsily.
- 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.
- gandhi cap — a white cap, pointed in front and back and having a wide band, worn by men in India.
- gang up on — a group or band: A gang of boys gathered around the winning pitcher.
- gangplanks — Plural form of gangplank.
- garden pea — pea1 (defs 1–3).
- gastroporn — the representation of food in a highly sensual manner
- gender gap — the differences between women and men, especially as reflected in social, political, intellectual, cultural, or economic attainments or attitudes.
- genophobia — The physical or psychological fear of sexual relations or sexual intercourse.
- geoponical — agricultural
- giant kelp — any of various very large kelps of the genera Laminaria, Macrocystis, and Nereocystis.
- gin palace — (formerly) a gaudy drinking house
- gingersnap — a small, brittle cookie flavored with ginger and molasses.
- glen plaid — a plaid pattern of muted colors or of black or gray and white, especially one in which two dark and two light stripes alternate with four dark and four light stripes, both vertically and horizontally, forming a crossing pattern of irregular checks.
- gnaphalium — Any of the genus Gnaphalium of flowering plants, the cudweeds.
- godparents — Plural form of godparent.
- gramophone — a phonograph.
- 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.
- grand prix — (sometimes lowercase) any of various major automobile races over a long, arduous course, especially an international car race held each year over the same course.
- grandpapas — Plural form of grandpapa.
- grandpappy — grandfather.
- granophyre — a fine-grained or porphyritic granitic rock with a micrographic intergrowth of the minerals of the groundmass.
- grape fern — any of several ferns of the genus Botrychium, comprising several species having grapelike clusters of sporangia.
- grapestone — the seed of a grape.
- grapevines — Plural form of grapevine.
- graplement — a close fight or a close fighting grasp
- grapplings — Plural form of grappling.
- graspingly — In a grasping manner.
- grass pink — a pink, Dianthus plumarius, of Europe and Asia, having fragrant, fringed pink, purplish, or white flowers.
- green peas — peas eaten while fresh and immature
- green soap — a soap made chiefly from potassium hydroxide and linseed oil, used in treating some skin diseases.
- greenpeace — an organization founded in 1971 that stresses the need to maintain a balance between human progress and environmental conservation. Members take active but nonviolent measures against what are regarded as threats to environmental safety, such as the dumping of nuclear waste in the sea
- greenspeak — the jargon used by those who campaign for the conservation of the world's natural resources and the improvement of the environment
- ground pea — peanut.
- guinea pig — a short-eared, tailless rodent of the genus Cavia, usually white, black, and tawny, commonly regarded as the domesticated form of one of the South American wild species of cavy: often used in scientific experiments or kept as a pet.
- 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.
- hairspring — a fine, usually spiral, spring used for oscillating the balance of a timepiece.
- handspring — an acrobatic feat in which one starts from a standing position and wheels the body forward or backward in a complete circle, landing first on the hands and then on the feet, without contact by the rest of the body.
- hang it up — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- happenings — something that happens; occurrence; event.
- harpooning — Present participle of harpoon.
- headspring — the fountainhead or source of a stream.
- heptagonal — having seven sides or angles.
- 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.
- hog peanut — a twining plant, Amphicarpaea bracteata, of the legume family, bearing pods that ripen in or on the ground.