9-letter words containing a, p, e, h, o
- cenotaphs — Plural form of cenotaph.
- cephaloid — Shaped like the head or the brain.
- cephalous — having a head
- cerograph — an engraving or writing on wax
- chaetopod — any annelid worm of the classes Oligochaeta or Polychaeta
- chaperone — A chaperone is someone who accompanies another person somewhere in order to make sure that they do not come to any harm.
- chaperons — Plural form of chaperon.
- chaseport — a porthole through which a gun was fired
- chassepot — a breech-loading bolt-action rifle formerly used by the French Army
- cheap out — to take the cheapest option; try to do something as cheaply as possible
- chokedamp — blackdamp
- chopsteak — chopped steak.
- coliphage — a bacteriophage
- cymophane — a yellow or green opalescent variety of chrysoberyl
- diaphones — Plural form of diaphone.
- dog-cheap — very inexpensive.
- dopeheads — Plural form of dopehead.
- earphones — (countable) Plural form of earphone.
- echograph — a device that records oceanic depths by means of sonic waves.
- ecophobia — Fear of one\u2019s home.
- eidograph — a type of pantograph that was invented by the Scottish mathematician William Wallace in 1821 and which was more accurate than other pantographs
- endophagy — cannibalism within the same group or tribe
- ephoralty — an ephor's office
- epochally — In an epochal manner.
- ergograph — A graph that shows a relation between human activities, or agricultural/climate factors, and a seasonal year.
- esophagus — The part of the alimentary canal that connects the throat to the stomach; the gullet. In humans and other vertebrates it is a muscular tube lined with mucous membrane.
- esophoria — (ophthalmology) Inward deviation of the eye usually due to extra-ocular muscle imbalance.
- ethiopian — person from Ethiopia
- euphorbia — A plant of a genus that comprises the spurges.
- exophoria — (ophthalmology) A form of heterophoria in which there is a tendency of the eyes to deviate outward.
- geography — the science dealing with the areal differentiation of the earth's surface, as shown in the character, arrangement, and interrelations over the world of such elements as climate, elevation, soil, vegetation, population, land use, industries, or states, and of the unit areas formed by the complex of these individual elements.
- geophagia — Consumption of clay, chalk or dirt.
- grapeshot — a cluster of small cast-iron balls formerly used as a charge for a cannon.
- haanepoot — a type of white wine made from the Hanepoot grape
- half-open — (of a file) having a pawn or pawns of only one colour on it
- halophile — any organism, as certain halobacteria and marine bacteria, that requires a salt-rich environment for its growth and survival.
- halophobe — a creature that is unable to live in salty conditions
- halophyte — a plant that thrives in saline soil.
- hammerkop — A bird from southern Africa, Scopus umbretta, of the Scopidae family and related to the herons.
- handphone — A cordless or cellular phone.
- haplotype — Genetics. a combination of closely linked DNA sequences on one chromosome that are often inherited together: By comparing haplotypes of a mother and father with those of a fetus, scientists can study how new genetic changes arise.
- happen on — to take place; come to pass; occur: Something interesting is always happening in New York.
- happen to — chance to
- happen-so — chance; happenstance; accident: Meeting you today was pure happen-so.
- haptonema — In haptophytes, a peg-like organelle attached near the flagella and unique to the group. May function in attachment, feeding, or avoidance responses.
- harpooned — Simple past tense and past participle of harpoon.
- harpooner — a barbed, spearlike missile attached to a rope, and thrown by hand or shot from a gun, used for killing and capturing whales and large fish.
- head shop — a shop selling paraphernalia of interest to drug users or associated with the use of drugs.
- headphone — Audio. a headset designed for use with a stereo system.
- heatproof — not affected or damaged by heat, especially when placed in an oven or over a direct flame: heatproof cookware.