11-letter words containing a, p, t, h
- hard palate — Anatomy. the roof of the mouth, consisting of an anterior bony portion (hard palate) and a posterior muscular portion (soft palate) that separate the oral cavity from the nasal cavity.
- harem pants — a kind of baggy trousers worn by women, made of lightweight fabric and closefitting at the ankles
- haruspicate — of or relating to a haruspex
- hate speech — speech that attacks, threatens, or insults a person or group on the basis of national origin, ethnicity, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability.
- haute-piece — a standing flange fixed to or formed on a pauldron as a protection for one side of the neck.
- headstripes — Plural form of headstripe.
- health camp — a camp, usually at the seaside, for children requiring health care
- heartshaped — Alternative form of heart-shaped.
- heat cramps — a cramp or muscular spasm caused by loss of water and salt following prolonged exertion in hot weather.
- heater plug — one of usually four plugs fitted to the cylinder block of a diesel engine that warms the engine chamber to facilitate starting in cold weather
- heating pad — a flexible fabric-covered pad containing insulated electrical heating elements for applying heat especially to the body.
- hectopascal — An SI unit of pressure and stress equal to 100 pascals.
- hell to pay — serious consequences, as of a foolish action
- hematophagy — The practice, of some animals, of feeding on blood.
- hematophyte — a microorganism, as a bacterium, that lives in the blood.
- hemianoptic — suffering from hemiopia, blind in half the field of vision
- hemipterans — Plural form of hemipteran.
- hemotherapy — therapy by means of blood, serum, or plasma transfusion.
- hepatectomy — excision of part of the liver.
- hepatitis a — a normally minor form of hepatitis caused by an RNA virus that does not persist in the blood: usually transmitted by ingestion of contaminated food or water.
- hepatitis b — a form of hepatitis caused by a DNA virus (hepatitis B virus, or HBV) that persists in the blood, characterized by a long incubation period: usually transmitted by sexual contact or by injection or ingestion of infected blood or other bodily fluids.
- hepatitis c — a form of hepatitis with clinical effects similar to those of hepatitis B, caused by a blood-borne retrovirus (hepatitis C virus) that may be of the hepatitis non-A, non-B type.
- hepatocytes — Plural form of hepatocyte.
- hepatoscopy — medical examination of the liver.
- hepatotoxic — Damaging or destructive to liver cells.
- hepatotoxin — Any substance that causes hepatotoxicity.
- heptagynous — (of a flower) having seven pistils
- heptahedron — a solid figure having seven faces.
- heptamerous — consisting of or divided into seven parts.
- heptameters — Plural form of heptameter.
- heptandrous — (of a flower) having seven stamens
- heptangular — having seven angles.
- heptarchies — Plural form of heptarchy.
- heptarchist — A ruler of one division of a heptarchy.
- heptastichs — Plural form of heptastich.
- heptathlete — (athletics) An athlete who competes in the heptathlon.
- heptathlons — Plural form of heptathlon.
- heptavalent — septivalent.
- heterocarpy — the production of more than one kind of fruit in one plant.
- heteroplasm — (pathology) Tissue growing in a part of the body where it does not normally occur.
- heteropolar — polar (def 4).
- heterotopia — misplacement or displacement, as of an organ.
- hexapartite — sexpartite.
- hierophants — Plural form of hierophant.
- high-impact — High-impact exercise puts a lot of stress on your body.
- hippeastrum — any plant of the South American amaryllidaceous genus Hippeastrum: cultivated for their large funnel-shaped typically red flowers
- hippiatrics — the study of the diseases of horses
- hippiatrist — someone who treats the diseases of horses
- hippocrates — ("Father of Medicine") c460–c377 b.c, Greek physician.
- hippocratic — ("Father of Medicine") c460–c377 b.c, Greek physician.