10-letter words containing e, p, h, l
- hoplophobe — (rare) Someone suffering from hoplophobia.
- hospitable — 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.
- hotel ship — a ship which is moored and used as a hotel
- houseplant — an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.
- humble pie — humility forced upon someone, often under embarrassing conditions; humiliation.
- hump bluey — to carry one's bundle; tramp
- hyalophane — a variety of orthoclase in which some of the potassium is replaced by barium.
- hydrophile — (chemistry) Any hydrophilic substance.
- hydroplane — a seaplane.
- hypaethral — (of a classical building) wholly or partly open to the sky.
- hypalgesia — decreased sensitivity to pain (opposed to hyperalgesia).
- hype cycle — a term coined by Gartner to refer to the five phases he considers a new technology or product to go through from its launch to its stabilization on the market
- hyperalert — fully aware and attentive; wide-awake; keen: an alert mind.
- hyperalgia — an exaggerated sense of pain (opposed to hypalgesia).
- hyperbolas — Plural form of hyperbola.
- hyperboles — Plural form of hyperbole.
- hyperbolic — having the nature of hyperbole; exaggerated.
- hyperdulia — the veneration offered to the Virgin Mary as the most exalted of creatures.
- hyperfocal — relating to the distance beyond which a lens can be focused to produce satisfactory image quality
- hypergolic — (especially of rocket-fuel propellant constituents) igniting spontaneously upon contact with a complementary substance.
- hyperlapse — Lb photography A form of time-lapse photography where the camera is gradually moved across a long distance, such as down a highway, and a frame is captured at each new position.
- hyperlight — Faster than light speed.
- hyperlinks — Plural form of hyperlink.
- hyperlocal — relating to or focused on a very small geographical community, as a neighborhood: hyperlocal news websites; hyperlocal advertising.
- hypermiler — to improve fuel mileage in a motor vehicle, as by adopting certain driving techniques or making design alterations to the vehicle.
- hyperplane — a subspace of a vector space that has dimension one less than the dimension of the vector space.
- hyperploid — having a chromosome number that is greater than but not a multiple of the diploid number.
- hypersleep — (scifi) A form of suspended animation in which the body's functions are not merely slowed down but halted entirely.
- hyphenless — Without a hyphen.
- hypodermal — Zoology. an underlayer of epithelial cells in arthropods and certain other invertebrates that secretes substances for the overlying cuticle or exoskeleton.
- hypohalite — (chemistry) any salt of a hypohalous acid, having a general formula M(OX)n.
- hypomotile — Less than usually motile.
- hypothecal — (microbiology, planktology) Of or pertaining to the hypotheca, the lower half of the shell of certain types of plankton.
- iconophile — a connoisseur of icons or images.
- indophenol — a quinonimine derivative that is the parent substance of the blue and green indophenol dyes.
- interglyph — a surface between two grooves, as on a triglyph.
- irish pale — pale2 (def 6).
- isocephaly — (of a composition) having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
- isoplethic — Relating to isopleths.
- italophile — a person who admires Italian customs, traditions, etc.
- jellygraph — a device that uses a plate of jelly to make copies of a sheet of writing, etc
- kelyphitic — as in kelyphitic rim, a mineral shell enclosing another mineral in an igneous rock
- keogh plan — a pension plan for an unincorporated business entity or self-employed person.
- lagerphone — (Australia) A generally homemade percussion instrument consisting of crown cap beer bottle tops loosely nailed to a pole (often a broom handle) and a board mounted cross-ways on the pole (the head of the broom), and played by striking the pole on the ground or with a stick, by drawing the serrated stick across the pole, or by shaking the instrument. (From 1952.).
- lamp shell — a mollusklike marine animal; brachiopod.
- lamp-shade — 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.
- lampholder — a fixture for an electric light bulb
- lampshades — Plural form of lampshade.