9-letter words containing e, l, p, h
- halophyte — a plant that thrives in saline soil.
- haplessly — In a hapless manner.
- 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.
- harp seal — a northern earless seal, Pagophilus groenlandicus, with pale-yellow fur darkening to gray with age, of coasts, drifting ice, and seas of the North Atlantic Ocean, hunted for its fur.
- harpylike — resembling a harpy
- headlamps — Plural form of headlamp.
- heat lamp — a lamp fitted with an infrared bulb to supply heat especially as part of physical therapy.
- heelpiece — Shoemaking. a piece of leather, wood, or other material serving as the heel of a shoe, boot, or the like. such a piece used in repairing a heel.
- heelplate — a small metal plate attached to the heel of a shoe to protect it against excessive wear.
- heelposts — Plural form of heelpost.
- heliopsis — a genus of herbaceous flowering plant in the daisy family Asteraceae
- heliotype — A picture obtained by the process of heliotypy.
- helipilot — a helicopter pilot
- heliports — Plural form of heliport.
- helistops — Plural form of helistop.
- hellspawn — (fantasy) A creature or creatures from Hell.
- helm port — the opening at the stern of a ship, through which a rudderstock passes.
- helophyte — any perennial marsh plant that bears its overwintering buds in the mud below the surface
- help desk — A help desk is a special service that you can telephone or e-mail in order to get information about a particular product or subject.
- help menu — the place on a computer where you can get help and advice
- helpfully — giving or rendering aid or assistance; of service: Your comments were very helpful.
- helplines — Plural form of helpline.
- helpmates — (British) Plural form of helpmate.
- helpmeets — Plural form of helpmeet.
- hemolymph — a fluid in the body cavities and tissues of invertebrates, in arthropods functioning as blood and in some other invertebrates functioning as lymph.
- hemophile — a hemophiliac.
- heptaglot — a book written in seven languages
- 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.
- hexaploid — having a chromosome number that is six times the haploid number.
- hexapodal — of or relating to the hexapods
- hiplength — reaching to or covering the hips, as clothing: a hiplength sweater.
- holeproof — (of fabric or an article of clothing) designed or made so as to prevent holes.
- holophote — an apparatus by which practically all the light from a lighthouse lamp or the like is thrown in a desired direction.
- holophyte — (of a plant) obtaining energy by synthesizing inorganic substances; autotrophic.
- holotypes — Plural form of holotype.
- home help — A home help is a person who is employed to visit sick or old people at home and help with their cleaning or cooking.
- homeplace — a person's birthplace or family home.
- homophile — a homosexual.
- hopefully — in a hopeful manner: We worked hopefully and energetically, thinking we might finish first.
- horseplay — rough or boisterous play or pranks.
- hospitale — a place of lodging
- 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
- hustle up — to prepare quickly
- hylophyte — a plant that grows in woods
- hypallage — the reversal of the expected syntactic relation between two words, as in “her beauty's face” for “her face's beauty.”.
- hyperbola — the set of points in a plane whose distances to two fixed points in the plane have a constant difference; a curve consisting of two distinct and similar branches, formed by the intersection of a plane with a right circular cone when the plane makes a greater angle with the base than does the generator of the cone. Equation: x 2 /a 2 − y 2 /b 2 = ±1.
- hyperbole — obvious and intentional exaggeration.
- hyperlink — hypertext link