10-letter words containing r, d, o, p
- godparents — Plural form of godparent.
- good sport — sb good-humoured
- gopherwood — yellowwood.
- gossiprede — (obsolete) The relationship between a person and his sponsors.
- 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.
- graphitoid — resembling graphite
- ground pea — peanut.
- groundplot — Aeronautics. a method for obtaining the position of an aircraft by multiplying its groundspeed by its time in flight and marking off the product with respect to its starting position.
- groundprox — a device that alerts a pilot of a passenger aircraft when the altitude falls below a certain level
- guide rope — a rope fastened, usually at an angle, to a hoisting or towing line, to guide the object being moved.
- hard power — the ability to achieve one's goals by force, esp military force
- harpsicord — Dated form of harpsichord.
- heptachord — a musical scale of seven notes.
- hippodrome — an arena or structure for equestrian and other spectacles.
- hipsterdom — The state of being a hipster.
- hop garden — a field of hops
- houseproud — Alternative form of house-proud.
- 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.
- hydrophile — (chemistry) Any hydrophilic substance.
- hydrophobe — a hydrophobic substance.
- hydrophoby — Archaic form of hydrophobia.
- hydrophone — a device for locating sources of sound under water, as for detecting submarines by the noise of their engines.
- hydrophyte — a plant that grows in water or very moist ground; an aquatic plant.
- hydroplane — a seaplane.
- hydropolyp — an individual animal in a colony of hydroids
- hydroponic — the cultivation of plants by placing the roots in liquid nutrient solutions rather than in soil; soilless growth of plants. Compare aeroculture, geoponics (def 2).
- hydropower — hydroelectric power.
- hydroscope — an optical device for viewing objects below the surface of water.
- hydrospace — the regions beneath the surface of the oceans and seas.
- hydrotrope — (chemistry) A compound that solubilizes hydrophobic compounds in aqueous solutions.
- hyperoodon — (zoology) A whale in the genus Hyperoodon of the order Cetacea, comprising both species of bottlenose whale.
- hyperoxide — superoxide.
- hyperploid — having a chromosome number that is greater than but not a multiple of the diploid number.
- hypnodrama — the acting out of a traumatic experience, under hypnosis, by a person undergoing psychotherapy.
- hypodermal — Zoology. an underlayer of epithelial cells in arthropods and certain other invertebrates that secretes substances for the overlying cuticle or exoskeleton.
- hypodermic — characterized by the introduction of medicine or drugs under the skin: hypodermic injection.
- hypodermis — Zoology. an underlayer of epithelial cells in arthropods and certain other invertebrates that secretes substances for the overlying cuticle or exoskeleton.
- hypodorian — denoting a plagal mode represented by the ascending diatonic scale from A to A
- ideographs — an ideogram.
- ideography — the use of ideograms.
- idiography — The study of individuals.
- idiotropic — of or characterized by introspection; introspective.
- importuned — Simple past tense and past participle of importune.
- imprisoned — to confine in or as if in a prison.
- improvised — made or said without previous preparation: an improvised skit.
- incompared — incomparable; unmatched; unequalled
- infraposed — placed beneath