10-letter words containing p, r, a, e
- expressway — A highway designed for fast traffic, with controlled entrance and exit, a dividing strip between the traffic in opposite directions, and typically two or more lanes in each direction.
- exprobrate — (dated) To reproach or upbraid.
- expurgated — Remove matter thought to be objectionable or unsuitable from (a book or account).
- expurgator — One who expurgates.
- extemporal — (archaic) Extemporaneous.
- extirpable — Capable of being extirpated or eradicated.
- extirpated — Simple past tense and past participle of extirpate.
- extirpates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of extirpate.
- extirpator — Someone or something that extirpates.
- fathership — The state of being a father; fatherhood; paternity.
- fetiparous — (of a marsupial) bearing young before they are fully developed.
- filler cap — a device sealing the filling pipe to the petrol tank in a motor vehicle
- fireplaces — Plural form of fireplace.
- flagperson — A gender-neutral term for someone who uses a flag, especially as a form of signalling.
- flameproof — resisting the effect of flames; not readily ignited or burned by flames.
- flapperish — in the style of a flapper
- flare path — an airstrip illuminated for use at night or in bad weather
- fleahopper — either of two varieties of small, jumping insects which feed on crops and garden plants. The two main varieties are the garden fleahopper Halticus bractatus and the cotton fleahopper Pseudatomoscelis seriatus
- flop-eared — having long, drooping ears, as a hound.
- flurazepam — a benzodiazepine, C 21 H 23 ClFN 3 O, used in its hydrochloride form as a sedative and hypnotic in the management of insomnia and to alleviate anxiety states.
- 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.
- frangipane — a kind of pastry cake, filled with cream, almonds, and sugar.
- free space — unused memory or storage
- front-page — of major importance; worth putting on the first page of a newspaper.
- gamekeeper — a person employed, as on an estate or game preserve, to prevent poaching and provide a natural environment conducive to the propagation of game, as by thinning brush, scattering food after a snowstorm, and the like.
- gameplayer — One who plays a game or games.
- garden pea — pea1 (defs 1–3).
- gasteropod — Gastropod.
- gatekeeper — a person in charge of a gate, usually to identify, count, supervise, etc., the traffic or flow through it.
- gender gap — the differences between women and men, especially as reflected in social, political, intellectual, cultural, or economic attainments or attitudes.
- geographer — a person who specializes in geographical research, delineation, and study.
- geographic — of or relating to geography.
- germ plasm — the protoplasm of the germ cells containing the chromosomes.
- germaphobe — One who suffers from germaphobia.
- get a grip — regain self-control
- gingersnap — a small, brittle cookie flavored with ginger and molasses.
- glasspaper — (archaic) sandpaper.
- 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.
- granophyre — a fine-grained or porphyritic granitic rock with a micrographic intergrowth of the minerals of the groundmass.