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10-letter words containing p, r, e, g

  • godparents — Plural form of godparent.
  • gopherwood — yellowwood.
  • gossiprede — (obsolete) The relationship between a person and his sponsors.
  • gramophone — a phonograph.
  • 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.
  • grapefruit — a large, roundish, yellow-skinned, edible citrus fruit having a juicy, acid pulp.
  • grapelouse — an insect that attacks grape vines
  • grapestone — the seed of a grape.
  • grapevines — Plural form of grapevine.
  • graphemics — the study of writing systems and of their relation to speech.
  • graphitize — to convert into graphite.
  • grapholect — an established and standardized written language
  • graplement — a close fight or a close fighting grasp
  • graptolite — any colonial animal of the extinct class Graptolithina, most common in the Ordovician and Silurian Periods, thought to be related to the pterobranchs.
  • gravel pit — an open cast working for the extraction of gravel
  • gray power — the organized influence exerted by elderly people as a group, especially for social or political purposes or ends.
  • grays peak — a mountain in N central Colorado; highest point in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. 14,270 feet (4352 meters).
  • grease cup — oilcup.
  • 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
  • greenstrip — any vegetation that does not burn easily, left uncut or planted along a roadway or waterway, usually to prevent wildfires.
  • grey power — the political, financial, or social influence of elderly people
  • gripe site — a website through which people can express their contempt for a particular person, organization, pop group, etc
  • ground pea — peanut.
  • group home — a substitute home, usually located in a residential neighborhood, providing foster care for orphans, delinquents, disabled persons, or others with special needs.
  • groupmates — Plural form of groupmate.
  • grumpiness — The state, or act, of being grumpy.
  • guest rope — a rope suspended from the side of a vessel or a boom as an object to which other vessels can moor, or to afford a hold for persons in such vessels.
  • guest-rope — a rope suspended from the side of a vessel or a boom as an object to which other vessels can moor, or to afford a hold for persons in such vessels.
  • guide rope — a rope fastened, usually at an angle, to a hoisting or towing line, to guide the object being moved.
  • gulper eel — any deep-sea eel-like fish of the genera Eurypharynx and Saccopharynx and order Lyomeri, having the ability to swallow large prey
  • gunpersons — Plural form of gunperson.
  • gymnosperm — a vascular plant having seeds that are not enclosed in an ovary; a conifer or cycad.
  • gymnospore — a naked spore, especially one not produced in a sporangium or one lacking a protective envelope.
  • gynophores — Plural form of gynophore.
  • gyrocopter — autogiro.
  • gyroscopes — Plural form of gyroscope.
  • headspring — the fountainhead or source of a stream.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • hieroglyph — Also, hieroglyphical. designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols are conventionalized, recognizable pictures of the things represented.
  • hierograph — sacred writing or characters
  • high-power — (of a rifle) of a sufficiently high muzzle velocity and using a heavy enough bullet to kill large game.
  • hiphuggers — (of a garment) having a close-fitting waistline placed at the hip rather than at the natural waist: hiphugger jeans.
  • hop garden — a field of hops
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