10-letter words containing a, p, t, h
- hetmanship — the position of a hetman
- hierophant — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
- hippiatric — relating or belonging to the treatment of disease in horses
- hippotamus — Obsolete spelling and common present-day misspelling of hippopotamus.
- hit parade — a listing or category of popular songs ranked according to their popularity with listeners, usually as shown by sales of records.
- hog peanut — a twining plant, Amphicarpaea bracteata, of the legume family, bearing pods that ripen in or on the ground.
- holophotal — reflecting and redirecting all or a large amount of the light from a source
- home plate — the base at which the batter stands and which a base runner must reach safely in order to score a run, typically a five-sided slab of whitened rubber set at ground level at the front corner of the diamond.
- homeopathy — the method of treating disease by drugs, given in minute doses, that would produce in a healthy person symptoms similar to those of the disease (opposed to allopathy).
- homoeopath — Alternative spelling of homeopath.
- homopteran — homopterous.
- hospitable — receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously: a hospitable family.
- hospitably — receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously: a hospitable family.
- 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.
- hospitalet — a city in NE Spain, near Barcelona.
- hot potato — Informal. a situation or issue that is difficult, unpleasant, or risky to deal with.
- houseplant — an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.
- hugh capet — Hugh or Fr. Hugues [yg] /üg/ (Show IPA), a.d. 938?–996, king of France 987–996.
- hydropathy — the curing of disease by the internal and external use of water.
- hyetograph — a map or chart showing the average rainfall for the localities represented.
- hyoplastra — the second foremost pair of plastral bones in a turtle
- hypaethral — (of a classical building) wholly or partly open to the sky.
- hypaethron — a part of a building or court which is open to the sky
- hypanthium — a cup-shaped or tubular body formed by the conjoined sepals, petals, and stamens.
- hyperacute — sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain.
- hyperalert — fully aware and attentive; wide-awake; keen: an alert mind.
- hyperbatic — relating to a hyperbaton
- hyperbaton — the use, especially for emphasis, of a word order other than the expected or usual one, as in “Bird thou never wert.”.
- hypergiant — (star) A star that is extremely massive and even more luminous than a supergiant.
- hypertonia — increased rigidity, tension, and spasticity of the muscles.
- hyphenated — of or relating to something of distinct form or origin that has been joined; connected by a hyphen.
- hyphenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hyphenate.
- hyphenator — One who, or that which, hyphenates.
- hypoactive — Less than normally active.
- hypoblasts — Plural form of hypoblast.
- hypocausts — Plural form of hypocaust.
- hypohalite — (chemistry) any salt of a hypohalous acid, having a general formula M(OX)n.
- hypometria — Dysmetria in which the patient tends to undershoot the intended target.
- hypostases — Metaphysics. something that stands under and supports; foundation. the underlying or essential part of anything as distinguished from attributes; substance, essence, or essential principle.
- hypostasis — Metaphysics. something that stands under and supports; foundation. the underlying or essential part of anything as distinguished from attributes; substance, essence, or essential principle.
- hypostatic — of or relating to a hypostasis; fundamental.
- hypotactic — dependent relation or construction, as of clauses; syntactic subordination.
- hypothecal — (microbiology, planktology) Of or pertaining to the hypotheca, the lower half of the shell of certain types of plankton.
- hypothenar — the fleshly prominence on the palm at the base of the little finger.
- hypothymia — a state of depression
- idiopathic — of unknown cause, as a disease.
- inch plant — any of several creeping or sprawling tropical American plants of the genus Callisia, having sometimes fragrant flowers in a variety of colors.
- interphase — the period of the cell cycle during which the nucleus is not undergoing division, typically occurring between mitotic or meiotic divisions. Also called interkinesis. Compare G1 phase, S phase, G2 phase.
- intraphase — (chemistry, physics) Within a phase.
- italophile — a person who admires Italian customs, traditions, etc.