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9-letter words containing e, p, h, l, i

  • harpylike — resembling a harpy
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • helplines — Plural form of helpline.
  • hemophile — a hemophiliac.
  • hexaploid — having a chromosome number that is six times the haploid number.
  • hiplength — reaching to or covering the hips, as clothing: a hiplength sweater.
  • homophile — a homosexual.
  • hospitale — a place of lodging
  • hyperlink — hypertext link
  • hypermile — to improve fuel mileage in a motor vehicle, as by adopting certain driving techniques or making design alterations to the vehicle.
  • indepthly — (nonstandard) in depth.
  • iodophile — taking an intense iodine stain
  • isopleths — Plural form of isopleth.
  • klephtism — the activities or life of klephts
  • 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.
  • lyophiled — (of blood, serum, tissue, etc) freeze-dried
  • mesophile — mesophilic.
  • 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.
  • nymphlike — Resembling a nymph.
  • oenophile — a person who enjoys wines, usually as a connoisseur.
  • oenophily — a liking for or expert knowledge of wine
  • ophiolite — an assemblage of mafic igneous rocks representing remnants of former oceanic crust.
  • paleolith — a paleolithic stone implement.
  • parhelion — a bright circular spot on a solar halo; a mock sun: usually one of two or more such spots seen on opposite sides of the sun, and often accompanied by additional luminous arcs and bands.
  • pearlfish — any of several small fishes of the family Carapidae, living within pearl oysters, sea cucumbers, starfishes, etc.
  • pedophile — an adult who is sexually attracted to young children.
  • perihelia — the point in the orbit of a planet or comet at which it is nearest to the sun.
  • perilymph — the fluid between the bony and membranous labyrinths of the ear.
  • petechial — pertaining to, resembling, or characterized by petechiae.
  • phacolite — a colorless variety of chabazite.
  • phaseolin — a type of proteid that is present in the kidney bean
  • phelonion — a liturgical vestment resembling a chasuble.
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