9-letter words containing a, p, o, t, h
- cytophagy — the ingestion of cells by other cells.
- ephoralty — an ephor's office
- ethiopian — person from Ethiopia
- footpaths — Plural form of footpath.
- grapeshot — a cluster of small cast-iron balls formerly used as a charge for a cannon.
- ha'p'orth — a person considered as specified
- haanepoot — a type of white wine made from the Hanepoot grape
- halophyte — a plant that thrives in saline soil.
- haplontic — (chiefly of an alga or other lower plant) having a life cycle in which the main form is haploid, with a diploid zygote being formed only briefly.
- 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 to — chance to
- haptonema — In haptophytes, a peg-like organelle attached near the flagella and unique to the group. May function in attachment, feeding, or avoidance responses.
- heatproof — not affected or damaged by heat, especially when placed in an oven or over a direct flame: heatproof cookware.
- hemopathy — (medicine) Any disorder or disease of the blood.
- hepatomas — Plural form of hepatoma.
- hepatoxic — Exhibiting hepatoxicity.
- heptaglot — a book written in seven languages
- heptagons — Plural form of heptagon.
- heptalogy — (rare) # A set of seven works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as seven individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
- heptanone — any of three isomeric ketones, C 11 H 14 O, derived from heptane.
- heptapody — a verse with seven metrical feet
- hippolyta — a queen of the Amazons, variously said to have been killed by Hercules or to have been conquered and married by Theseus.
- homeopath — a person who practices or favors homeopathy.
- homotypal — of normal type
- honeytrap — A stratagem in which irresistible bait is used to lure a victim.
- hopatcong — a town in N New Jersey.
- hospitage — the position of being a guest
- hospitale — a place of lodging
- hospitals — Plural form of hospital.
- hospitate — (obsolete, transitive) To receive with hospitality; to lodge as a guest.
- hot pants — (used with a plural verb) very brief and usually tight-fitting shorts for women and girls, first popularized in the early 1970s.
- hot plate — a portable appliance for cooking, formerly heated by a gas burner placed underneath it, now heated chiefly by an electrical unit in the appliance.
- hotplates — Plural form of hotplate.
- hourplate — the dial of a clock or watch
- hypoblast — the endoderm.
- hypocaust — a hollow space or system of channels in the floor or walls of some ancient Roman buildings that provided a central heating system by receiving and distributing the heat from a furnace.
- hyponasty — increased growth along the lower surface of a plant or plant part, causing it to bend upward.
- hypostoma — Hypostome.
- hypotaxis — dependent relation or construction, as of clauses; syntactic subordination.
- hypotheca — (microbiology, planktology) The lower or posterior half of the theca of a thecate protist such as a diatom or dinoflagellate.
- hypotonia — An abnormal loss of muscle tone.
- idiopathy — a disease not preceded or occasioned by any known morbid condition.
- isophotal — relating to an isophote or isophotes, or to a diagram on which isophotes are represented
- karpathos — an island off the SE coast of Greece, part of the Dodecanese Islands, in the Aegean Sea. 110 sq. mi. (280 sq. km).
- lalopathy — any defect of speech.
- malt shop — a retail establishment specializing in serving ice-cream drinks, as malted milks, milk shakes, and sodas.
- mazopathy — mazopathia.
- metamorph — (biology) An organism that has undergone metamorphosis.
- metaphone — (algorithm, text) An algorithm for encoding a word so that similar sounding words encode the same. It's similar to soundex in purpose, but as it knows the basic rules of English pronunciation it's more accurate. The higher accuracy doesn't come free, though, metaphone requires more computational power as well as more storage capacity, but neither of these requirements are usually prohibitive. It is in the public domain so it can be freely implemented. Metaphone was developed by Lawrence Philips <[email protected]>. It is described in ["Practical Algorithms for Programmers", Binstock & Rex, Addison Wesley, 1995].
- metaphore — Misspelling of metaphor.