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

  • harpooneer — A harpooner.
  • harpooning — Present participle of harpoon.
  • harpsicord — Dated form of harpsichord.
  • 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
  • heptachlor — a highly toxic, light-tan, waxy solid, C 10 H 5 Cl 7 , used as an insecticide: its manufacture and use are restricted in the U.S.
  • heptachord — a musical scale of seven notes.
  • heptameron — A literary work whose action covers a period of seven days.
  • 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.
  • holocarpic — (of a fungus) having the entire thallus converted into fruiting bodies.
  • holographs — Plural form of holograph.
  • holography — the process or technique of making holograms.
  • holophrase — a word functioning as a phrase or sentence, as the imperative Go!
  • home scrap — scrap steel reprocessed in the steel mill in which it was produced.
  • 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.
  • homopteran — homopterous.
  • honor camp — a prison work camp operating on an honor system.
  • hop garden — a field of hops
  • hopper car — a freight car, usually open at the top and containing one or more hoppers so that bulk cargo can be quickly discharged through its bottom.
  • horography — the art of constructing time-keeping instruments such as watches and clocks
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • hydropathy — the curing of disease by the internal and external use of water.
  • hydrophane — a partly translucent variety of opal, which becomes more translucent or transparent when immersed in water.
  • hydroplane — a seaplane.
  • hydrospace — the regions beneath the surface of the oceans and seas.
  • hyetograph — a map or chart showing the average rainfall for the localities represented.
  • hygrograph — a self-recording hygrometer.
  • hyoplastra — the second foremost pair of plastral bones in a turtle
  • hypaethron — a part of a building or court which is open to the sky
  • hyperbaton — the use, especially for emphasis, of a word order other than the expected or usual one, as in “Bird thou never wert.”.
  • hyperbolas — Plural form of hyperbola.
  • hyperchaos — (mathematics) A form of chaotic behaviour with at least two positive Lyapunov exponents.
  • hyperfocal — relating to the distance beyond which a lens can be focused to produce satisfactory image quality
  • hyperlocal — relating to or focused on a very small geographical community, as a neighborhood: hyperlocal news websites; hyperlocal advertising.
  • hypernovae — Plural form of hypernova.
  • hyperosmia — an abnormally acute sense of smell.
  • hyperpnoea — abnormally deep or rapid respiration.
  • hypertonia — increased rigidity, tension, and spasticity of the muscles.
  • hyphenator — One who, or that which, hyphenates.
  • hypnodrama — the acting out of a traumatic experience, under hypnosis, by a person undergoing psychotherapy.
  • hypnograph — an instrument that measures activities of the human body during sleep.
  • hypodermal — Zoology. an underlayer of epithelial cells in arthropods and certain other invertebrates that secretes substances for the overlying cuticle or exoskeleton.
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