10-letter words containing t, r, a, p
- fathership — The state of being a father; fatherhood; paternity.
- fault trap — A fault trap is a hydrocarbon trap in which closure is caused by a geological fault.
- fetiparous — (of a marsupial) bearing young before they are fully developed.
- flare path — an airstrip illuminated for use at night or in bad weather
- flip chart — a set of sheets, as of cardboard or paper, hinged at the top so that they can be flipped over to show information or illustrations in sequence.
- forcipated — Like a pair of forceps.
- 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.
- front-page — of major importance; worth putting on the first page of a newspaper.
- gamotropic — of or relating to gamotropism
- 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
- gatekeeper — a person in charge of a gate, usually to identify, count, supervise, etc., the traffic or flow through it.
- gaza strip — a coastal area on the E Mediterranean: formerly in the Palestine mandate, occupied by Israel 1967–94; since 1994 under Palestinian self-rule.
- get a grip — regain self-control
- go private — to restore private ownership of a corporation by buying back publicly held stock
- godparents — Plural form of godparent.
- grapefruit — a large, roundish, yellow-skinned, edible citrus fruit having a juicy, acid pulp.
- grapestone — the seed of a grape.
- graphitize — to convert into graphite.
- graphitoid — resembling 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
- groupmates — Plural form of groupmate.
- grow apart — friends: become less intimate
- handprints — Plural form of handprint.
- haphtaroth — Plural form of haphtarah.
- haptometer — a mechanical device for measuring the sense of touch.
- hard paste — true porcelain, made with kaolin, feldspar, quartz, or petuntse.
- hartlepool — a seaport city in NE England.
- headstripe — A stripe of colored feathers on the head of a bird.
- heat cramp — a cramp or muscular spasm caused by loss of water and salt following prolonged exertion in hot weather.
- 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.
- hemipteral — of or relating to a hemipterous insect
- hemipteran — hemipterous.
- hemitropal — hemitropous
- heptachlor — a highly toxic, light-tan, waxy solid, C 10 H 5 Cl 7 , used as an insecticide: its manufacture and use are restricted in the U.S.
- heptachord — a musical scale of seven notes.
- heptameron — A literary work whose action covers a period of seven days.
- heptameter — a verse of seven metrical feet.
- hermatypic — reef-building coral.
- hierophant — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.