10-letter words that end in p
- countertop — A countertop is a flat surface in a kitchen which is easily cleaned and on which you can prepare food.
- cousinship — Also called first cousin, full cousin. the son or daughter of an uncle or aunt. See also second cousin, removed (def 2).
- cover crop — a crop planted between main crops to prevent leaching or soil erosion or to provide green manure
- cover slip — Microscopy. cover glass.
- cracked up — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- cradle cap — a form of seborrhoea of the scalp common in young babies
- cranked up — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
- curateship — the office or position of a curate
- curtain-up — the moment when the curtain is raised and a play or similar show begins
- cybergroup — A group based in cyberspace or on the Internet.
- cycle clip — a ring of taut metal that fits on a person's ankles to hold trouser bottoms tight and prevent them getting caught in the chain of a bicycle
- cycle pump — a hand pump for pumping air into the tyres of a bicycle
- cyclic amp — cyclic adenosine monophosphate: a constituent of biological cells, responsible for triggering processes that are dependent on hormones
- cyclic gmp — a cyclic anhydride of guanosine monophosphate formed from guanosine triphosphate by the action of guanylate cyclase: in cellular metabolism, it acts as a second messenger associated with increased cell division and growth.
- dall sheep — a wild sheep (Ovis dalli) with white hair and long spiral horns, living in the mountains of NW North America
- date stamp — an adjustable rubber stamp for recording the date
- date-stamp — to stamp the date on, as with a date stamp: He date-stamped every letter received.
- deaconship — (in hierarchical churches) a member of the clerical order next below that of a priest.
- dealership — A dealership is a company that sells cars, usually for one car company.
- death camp — A death camp is a place where prisoners are kept, especially during a war, and where many of them die or are killed.
- death trap — If you say that a place or vehicle is a death trap, you mean it is in such bad condition that it might cause someone's death.
- depot ship — a ship providing supplies and facilities for other vessels or naval bases
- dirt cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
- dirt-cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
- disenvelop — to unfold
- disworship — to refuse to revere or worship
- docentship — privatdocent.
- doctorship — a person licensed to practice medicine, as a physician, surgeon, dentist, or veterinarian.
- dollar gap — the difference, measured in U.S. dollars, between the earnings of a foreign country through sales and investments in the U.S. and the payments made by that country to the U.S.
- dollarship — the fact of being denominated in dollars
- dorsal lip — the dorsal marginal region of the blastopore, which acts as a center of differentiation: as cells move through this region to the interior of the embryo during gastrulation, they acquire the ability to induce the overlying ectoderm to develop into a variety of tissues.
- double cup — (in Renaissance art) a matched pair of metal cups, made so that one can be placed inverted on top of the other.
- double dip — In economics, a double dip is a period when an economy goes into recession, then briefly recovers, but then goes into another recession.
- double tap — an act of firing a gun twice in rapid succession
- double top — a score of double 20
- double-dip — Informal. to earn a salary from one position while collecting a pension from the same employer or organization, especially to be a wage earner on the federal payroll while receiving a military retiree's pension.
- drag strip — a straight, paved area or course where drag races are held, as a section of road or airplane runway.
- dress ship — to decorate a vessel by displaying all signal flags on lines run from the bow to the stern over the mast trucks
- dressed up — in evening wear
- drill ship — A drill ship is a ship which has been modified to include a drilling rig.
- duennaship — The role or status of duenna.
- east islip — a town on the S shore of Long Island, in SE New York.
- editorship — the office or function of an editor.
- electropop — a genre of pop music characterized by the use of synthesizers to replace guitars and drums
- emacs lisp — (language) A dialect of Lisp used to implement the higher layers of the Free Software Foundation's editor, GNU Emacs. Sometimes abbreviated to "elisp". An enormous number of Emacs Lisp packages have been written including modes for editing many programming languages and interfaces to many Unix programs.
- energy gap — the difference of energy between the bottom of the conduction band and the top of the valence band of the electrons in a crystalline solid. For values below about 2eV the substance is considered to be a semiconductor whilst for higher values it is considered to be an insulator
- externship — An experiential learning opportunity, usually offered by a school, similar to an internship, but generally shorter in duration.
- factorship — The business of a factor.
- fairy lamp — a lamp using a candle as the source of illumination, usually constructed of glass or ceramic material, set on a metal base, and having a fabric shade.
- false step — a stumble.