10-letter words containing p, r, o, g, e
- 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.
- grapelouse — an insect that attacks grape vines
- grapestone — the seed of a grape.
- grapholect — an established and standardized written language
- 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.
- grey power — the political, financial, or social influence of elderly people
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- hop garden — a field of hops
- hyetograph — a map or chart showing the average rainfall for the localities represented.
- hygrophobe — a plant that grows best with little or no moisture
- hygrophyte — a plant that thrives in wet or very moist ground.
- hygroscope — an instrument that indicates the approximate humidity of the air.
- hypergolic — (especially of rocket-fuel propellant constituents) igniting spontaneously upon contact with a complementary substance.
- ideographs — an ideogram.
- ideography — the use of ideograms.
- impowering — Present participle of impower.
- intergroup — taking place or being between groups: intergroup relationships.
- jeoparding — Present participle of jeopard.
- lagerphone — (Australia) A generally homemade percussion instrument consisting of crown cap beer bottle tops loosely nailed to a pole (often a broom handle) and a board mounted cross-ways on the pole (the head of the broom), and played by striking the pole on the ground or with a stick, by drawing the serrated stick across the pole, or by shaking the instrument. (From 1952.).
- long press — (on a tablet or smartphone) the act of pressing one's finger down on an icon or other part of the screen for several seconds, as to activate a task or access additional options.
- long purse — wealth; riches
- longprimer — in printing, a size of type intermediate between small pica and bourgeois
- macrophage — a large white blood cell, occurring principally in connective tissue and in the bloodstream, that ingests foreign particles and infectious microorganisms by phagocytosis.
- mareograph — marigraph.
- megaspores — the larger of the two kinds of spores characteristically produced by seed plants and a few fern allies, developing into a female gametophyte. Compare microspore.
- microphage — a small phagocytic cell in blood or lymph, especially a polymorphonuclear leukocyte.
- mimeograph — a printing machine with an ink-fed drum, around which a cut waxed stencil is placed and which rotates as successive sheets of paper are fed into it.
- morphogene — (genetics) Any gene that is involved in growth or in morphogenesis.
- morphogens — Plural form of morphogen.