10-letter words containing p, a, r, o
- floor plan — a diagram of one room, apartment, or entire floor of a building, usually drawn to scale.
- 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.
- frappucino — Any of several forms of partially frozen cappuccino coffee.
- front-page — of major importance; worth putting on the first page of a newspaper.
- gamotropic — of or relating to gamotropism
- gasparovic — Ivan. born 1941, Slovakian politician, president of Slovakia (2004–14)
- gasteropod — Gastropod.
- gastro-pub — A gastro-pub is a pub that serves very good food.
- gastropods — Plural form of gastropod.
- gastroporn — the representation of food in a highly sensual manner
- gastropubs — Plural form of gastropub.
- gastrosoph — a person skilled in the art of good eating
- 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.
- 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
- hammerkops — Plural form of hammerkop.
- haphtaroth — Plural form of haphtarah.
- haplogroup — Genetics. a set of similar haplotypes inherited together, or a group who shares a set of similar haplotypes, used to understand genetic lineages.
- happy hour — a cocktail hour or longer period at a bar, during which drinks are served at reduced prices or with free snacks: happy hour from 5 to 7 p.m.
- haptometer — a mechanical device for measuring the sense of touch.
- hard power — the ability to achieve one's goals by force, esp military force