10-letter words containing p, a, r, i
- hairspring — a fine, usually spiral, spring used for oscillating the balance of a timepiece.
- half-price — at a 50% reduction in cost
- handprints — Plural form of handprint.
- 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.
- harelipped — Usually Offensive. cleft lip.
- harpooning — Present participle of harpoon.
- harpsicord — Dated form of harpsichord.
- haruspices — Plural form of haruspex.
- headspring — the fountainhead or source of a stream.
- headstripe — A stripe of colored feathers on the head of a bird.
- heliograph — a device for signaling by means of a movable mirror that reflects beams of light, especially sunlight, to a distance.
- hemipteral — of or relating to a hemipterous insect
- hemipteran — hemipterous.
- hemitropal — hemitropous
- heparinize — Add heparin to (blood or a container about to be filled with blood) to prevent it from coagulating.
- heraldship — the office or position of a herald
- herb paris — a European plant, Paris quadrifolia, of the lily family, formerly used in medicine.
- hermatypic — reef-building coral.
- 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.
- hierograph — sacred writing or characters
- 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.
- hipparchus — died 514 b.c, tyrant of Athens 527–514.
- hippiatric — relating or belonging to the treatment of disease in horses
- hit parade — a listing or category of popular songs ranked according to their popularity with listeners, usually as shown by sales of records.
- holocarpic — (of a fungus) having the entire thallus converted into fruiting bodies.
- hospitaler — a member of the religious and military order (Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
- hyperaemia — an abnormally large amount of blood in any part of the body.
- hyperalgia — an exaggerated sense of pain (opposed to hypalgesia).
- hyperaphia — abnormal sensitivity to touch.
- hyperbaric — (of an anesthetic) having a specific gravity greater than that of cerebrospinal fluid. Compare hypobaric.
- hyperbatic — relating to a hyperbaton
- hyperdulia — the veneration offered to the Virgin Mary as the most exalted of creatures.
- hypergiant — (star) A star that is extremely massive and even more luminous than a supergiant.
- hypermania — excessive excitement or enthusiasm; craze: The country has a mania for soccer.
- hypermanic — pertaining to or affected by mania.
- hypermedia — hypertext
- hyperosmia — an abnormally acute sense of smell.
- hypertonia — increased rigidity, tension, and spasticity of the muscles.
- hypodorian — denoting a plagal mode represented by the ascending diatonic scale from A to A
- hypometria — Dysmetria in which the patient tends to undershoot the intended target.
- hypophoria — Physical misalignment of the two eyes so that one eye is set lower in the head than the other.
- hypopraxia — abnormally decreased activity; listlessness.
- iconograph — symbolic representation, especially the conventional meanings attached to an image or images.
- ideographs — an ideogram.
- ideography — the use of ideograms.
- idiography — The study of individuals.
- imipramine — a tricyclic antidepressant, C 19 H 24 N 2 , used for the symptomatic relief of depression.
- impairable — to make or cause to become worse; diminish in ability, value, excellence, etc.; weaken or damage: to impair one's health; to impair negotiations.
- impairment — the state of being diminished, weakened, or damaged, especially mentally or physically: cognitive impairment in older adults.