10-letter words containing y, e, l, p
- flyspeck 3 — (humour) A standard name for any font that is so tiny as to be unreadable, by analogy with names like "Helvetica 10" for 10-point Helvetica. Legal boilerplate is usually printed in Flyspeck 3.
- flyspecked — Covered with flyspecks.
- 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.
- gameplayer — One who plays a game or games.
- glycophyte — any plant that will only grow healthily in soils with a low content of sodium salts
- glyphosate — a compound, C 3 H 8 NO 5 P, used to kill a wide range of weeds.
- gypsophile — any plant living or thriving in soil containing gypsum.
- haemolymph — the blood-like fluid of invertebrates
- half-empty — (of a vessel, place, etc) holding or containing half its capacity
- halophytes — Plural form of halophyte.
- haplotypes — Plural form of haplotype.
- heliophyte — a plant that grows best in full sunlight.
- heliotropy — the growth of plants in a particular direction as a response to the stimulus of light, heliotropism
- helplessly — unable to help oneself; weak or dependent: a helpless invalid.
- hepatology — (medicine) The study or treatment of the liver, gallbladder, and pancreas.
- hexaploidy — the condition of being a hexaploid
- 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.
- holy place — somewhere sacred
- hopelessly — In a way that shows or causes despair.
- hump bluey — to carry one's bundle; tramp
- hyalophane — a variety of orthoclase in which some of the potassium is replaced by barium.
- hydrophile — (chemistry) Any hydrophilic substance.
- hydroplane — a seaplane.
- hypaethral — (of a classical building) wholly or partly open to the sky.
- hypalgesia — decreased sensitivity to pain (opposed to hyperalgesia).
- hype cycle — a term coined by Gartner to refer to the five phases he considers a new technology or product to go through from its launch to its stabilization on the market
- hyperalert — fully aware and attentive; wide-awake; keen: an alert mind.
- hyperalgia — an exaggerated sense of pain (opposed to hypalgesia).
- hyperbolas — Plural form of hyperbola.
- hyperboles — Plural form of hyperbole.
- hyperbolic — having the nature of hyperbole; exaggerated.
- hyperdulia — the veneration offered to the Virgin Mary as the most exalted of creatures.
- hyperfocal — relating to the distance beyond which a lens can be focused to produce satisfactory image quality
- hypergolic — (especially of rocket-fuel propellant constituents) igniting spontaneously upon contact with a complementary substance.
- hyperlapse — Lb photography A form of time-lapse photography where the camera is gradually moved across a long distance, such as down a highway, and a frame is captured at each new position.
- hyperlight — Faster than light speed.
- hyperlinks — Plural form of hyperlink.
- hyperlocal — relating to or focused on a very small geographical community, as a neighborhood: hyperlocal news websites; hyperlocal advertising.
- hypermiler — to improve fuel mileage in a motor vehicle, as by adopting certain driving techniques or making design alterations to the vehicle.
- hyperplane — a subspace of a vector space that has dimension one less than the dimension of the vector space.
- hyperploid — having a chromosome number that is greater than but not a multiple of the diploid number.
- hypersleep — (scifi) A form of suspended animation in which the body's functions are not merely slowed down but halted entirely.
- hyphenless — Without a hyphen.
- hypodermal — Zoology. an underlayer of epithelial cells in arthropods and certain other invertebrates that secretes substances for the overlying cuticle or exoskeleton.
- hypohalite — (chemistry) any salt of a hypohalous acid, having a general formula M(OX)n.
- hypomotile — Less than usually motile.
- hypothecal — (microbiology, planktology) Of or pertaining to the hypotheca, the lower half of the shell of certain types of plankton.
- ideal type — a construct abstracted from experience in which individual elements are combined to form a whole that is conceptually independent of empirical factors or variables, but against which particular examples of the appropriate class found in life can be measured.
- impeccably — faultless; flawless; irreproachable: impeccable manners.
- imperially — of, like, or pertaining to an empire.