10-letter words containing a, l, p, r
- fall apart — physically: into pieces
- fault trap — A fault trap is a hydrocarbon trap in which closure is caused by a geological fault.
- filler cap — a device sealing the filling pipe to the petrol tank in a motor vehicle
- fireplaces — Plural form of fireplace.
- flagperson — A gender-neutral term for someone who uses a flag, especially as a form of signalling.
- flameproof — resisting the effect of flames; not readily ignited or burned by flames.
- flapdragon — an old game in which the players snatch raisins, plums, etc., out of burning brandy, and eat them.
- flapperish — in the style of a flapper
- flare path — an airstrip illuminated for use at night or in bad weather
- fleahopper — either of two varieties of small, jumping insects which feed on crops and garden plants. The two main varieties are the garden fleahopper Halticus bractatus and the cotton fleahopper Pseudatomoscelis seriatus
- 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.
- floor lamp — a tall lamp designed to stand on the floor.
- floor plan — a diagram of one room, apartment, or entire floor of a building, usually drawn to scale.
- flop-eared — having long, drooping ears, as a hound.
- flurazepam — a benzodiazepine, C 21 H 23 ClFN 3 O, used in its hydrochloride form as a sedative and hypnotic in the management of insomnia and to alleviate anxiety states.
- 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.
- fore plane — a plane, intermediate in size between a jack plane and a jointer plane, used for preliminary smoothing.
- franz lisp — (language) A MacLisp-like dialect of Lisp, developed primarily for work in symbolic algebra by R. Fateman et al at Ucb in about 1980. It was named after the Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886). Franz Lisp was written in C and includes a compiler called "Liszt". Version: Opus 38.22. Liszt 8.08.
- gameplayer — One who plays a game or games.
- germ plasm — the protoplasm of the germ cells containing the chromosomes.
- glasspaper — (archaic) sandpaper.
- goalkeeper — (in ice hockey, field hockey, lacrosse, soccer, etc.) a player whose chief duty is to prevent the ball or puck from crossing or entering the goal.
- grapelouse — an insect that attacks grape vines
- graphalloy — a compound of graphite impregnated with Babbitt metal, bronze, copper, gold, etc., used as a low-friction material.
- grapholect — an established and standardized written language
- graphology — the study of handwriting, especially when regarded as an expression of the writer's character, personality, abilities, etc.
- graplement — a close fight or a close fighting grasp
- grapplings — Plural form of grappling.
- graptolite — any colonial animal of the extinct class Graptolithina, most common in the Ordovician and Silurian Periods, thought to be related to the pterobranchs.
- graspingly — In a grasping manner.
- gravel pit — an open cast working for the extraction of gravel
- half-price — at a 50% reduction in cost
- haplogroup — Genetics. a set of similar haplotypes inherited together, or a group who shares a set of similar haplotypes, used to understand genetic lineages.
- hard maple — the sugar maple, Acer saccharum.
- harelipped — Usually Offensive. cleft lip.
- hartlepool — a seaport city in NE England.
- hazel park — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- heliograph — a device for signaling by means of a movable mirror that reflects beams of light, especially sunlight, to a distance.
- hemipteral — of or relating to a hemipterous insect
- 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.
- heraldship — the office or position of a herald
- holocarpic — (of a fungus) having the entire thallus converted into fruiting bodies.
- holographs — Plural form of holograph.
- holography — the process or technique of making holograms.
- holophrase — a word functioning as a phrase or sentence, as the imperative Go!
- hospitaler — a member of the religious and military order (Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
- hyalograph — an instrument used in hyalography.
- hydroplane — a seaplane.
- hyoplastra — the second foremost pair of plastral bones in a turtle