9-letter words containing e, l, p, h
- hypermile — to improve fuel mileage in a motor vehicle, as by adopting certain driving techniques or making design alterations to the vehicle.
- hyperreal — Exaggerated in comparison to reality.
- hypertalk — A verbose semicompiled language by Bill Atkinson and Dan Winkler, with loose syntax and high readability. HyperTalk uses HyperCard as an object management system, development environment and interface builder. Programs are organised into "stacks" of "cards", each of which may have "buttons" and "fields". All data storage is in zero-terminated strings in fields, local, or global variables; all data references are through "chunk expressions" of the form: 'last item of background field "Name List" of card ID 34217'. Flow of control is event-driven and uses message-passing among scripts that are attached to stack, background, card, field and button objects.
- hypethral — (of a classical building) wholly or partly open to the sky.
- hypostyle — having many columns carrying the roof or ceiling: a hypostyle hall.
- indepthly — (nonstandard) in depth.
- iodophile — taking an intense iodine stain
- isopleths — Plural form of isopleth.
- klephtism — the activities or life of klephts
- kugelhopf — a sweetened bread, flavored with raisins and almonds, baked in a ring-shaped mold, and usually dusted with powdered sugar before serving.
- lamp-hole — a hole in the ground for lowering a lamp down into a sewer
- lampshade — a shade, usually translucent or opaque, for shielding the glare of a light source in a lamp or for directing the light to a particular area.
- lampshell — Alternative form of lamp shell.
- leptophos — a solid compound, C 13 H 10 BrCl 2 O 2 PS, used as a nonsystemic insecticide for food crops and lawn grass.
- lexigraph — A lexigram or ideograph, a graphical depiction of a single word.
- lexiphage — (graphics) /lek'si-fayj"/ A notorious word chomper, implemented and named by John Doty in late 1972 on and HP calculator and later on ITS. The lexiphage program would draw on a selected victim's bitmapped terminal the words "THE BAG" in ornate letters, followed a pair of jaws biting pieces of it off.
- lexiphane — One who uses words pretentiously.
- lexophile — A lover of words, especially in word games, puzzles, anagrams, palindromes, etc.
- light pen — a handheld light-sensitive device used for pointing at characters or objects on a CRT in order to make or modify drawings or to indicate functions to be performed.
- lithopone — a white pigment consisting of zinc sulfide, barium sulfate, and some zinc oxide, used as a pigment and filler in the manufacture of paints, inks, leather, paper, linoleum, and face powders.
- logophile — a lover of words.
- loopholed — Simple past tense and past participle of loophole.
- loopholes — Plural form of loophole.
- lyophiled — (of blood, serum, tissue, etc) freeze-dried
- machpelah — the site of a cave, probably in the ancient city of Hebron, where Abraham, Sarah, Rebekah, Isaac, Jacob, and Leah were buried. Gen. 23:19; 25:9; 49:30; 50:13.
- manhelper — a long pole for holding a paintbrush, used in painting areas otherwise out of ordinary reach.
- megaphyll — the relatively large type of leaf produced by ferns and seed plants
- melaphyre — a type of dark igneous rock embedded with feldspar crystals, related to basalt.
- melphalan — A particular drug used in chemotherapy.
- mesophile — mesophilic.
- mesophyll — the parenchyma, usually containing chlorophyll, that forms the interior parts of a leaf.
- mophandle — The handle of a mop.
- mphahlele — Ezekiel (Es'kia Mphahlele) 1919–2008, South African writer.
- mycophile — A person who likes hunting for, cooking or eating mushrooms and other edible fungi.
- necrophil — person who is sexually attracted to dead bodies
- negrophil — a white or other nonblack person who is especially sympathetic to or supportive of black people.
- nemophila — any of a genus, Nemophila, of low-growing hairy annual plants, esp N. menziesii, grown for its blue or white flowers: family Hydrophyllaceae
- neophilia — Love of new things.
- nephalism — teetotalism; abstinence from alcohol
- nephalist — (obsolete, Temperance movement) One who practises nephalism; a teetotaller.
- nepheline — a feldspathoid mineral, essentially sodium aluminum silicate, NaAlSiO 4 , occurring in alkali-rich volcanic rocks.
- nephology — The study or contemplation of clouds.
- nymphlike — Resembling a nymph.
- oenophile — a person who enjoys wines, usually as a connoisseur.
- oenophily — a liking for or expert knowledge of wine
- oleograph — a chromolithograph printed in oil colors on canvas or cloth.
- ophiolite — an assemblage of mafic igneous rocks representing remnants of former oceanic crust.
- pachelbel — Johann [yoh-hahn] /ˈyoʊ hɑn/ (Show IPA), 1653–1706, German organist and composer.
- paleolith — a paleolithic stone implement.
- palmhouse — a greenhouse for growing tropical plants, esp palms