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9-letter words containing g, a, p, e

  • hauppauge — a city on central Long Island, in SE New York.
  • heptaglot — a book written in seven languages
  • heptagons — Plural form of heptagon.
  • 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.
  • home page — website's introductory page
  • hospitage — the position of being a guest
  • hypallage — the reversal of the expected syntactic relation between two words, as in “her beauty's face” for “her face's beauty.”.
  • hypergamy — the practice among Hindu women of marrying into a caste at least as high as their own.
  • ideograph — an ideogram.
  • image map — (web)   An image in an HTML document with "hot spots" which when clicked on in a suitable browser, act as anchors or links to other information. For example, an image of a map of the world might provide links to resources related to different countries. Clicking on a country would take the user to the relevant information.
  • integraph — integrator (def 2).
  • interpage — to print (matter) on intervening pages
  • iphigenia — Classical Mythology. the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra and sister of Orestes and Electra: when she was about to be sacrificed to ensure a wind to take the Greek ships to Troy, she was saved by Artemis, whose priestess she became.
  • keg party — a beer bust.
  • lager top — a pint or half-pint of lager with a dash of lemonade
  • lagniappe — Chiefly Southern Louisiana and Southeast Texas. a small gift given with a purchase to a customer, by way of compliment or for good measure; bonus.
  • lappeting — Present participle of lappet.
  • large-cap — designating a company, or a mutual fund that invests in companies, with a market capitalization of $5 billion or more.
  • leapfrogs — Plural form of leapfrog.
  • legal cap — ruled writing paper in tablet form, measuring approximately 8½ × 13 to 14 inches (22 × 33 to 36 cm).
  • legal pad — a ruled writing tablet, usually yellow and measuring 8½ × 14 inches (22 × 36 cm).
  • 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.
  • magstripe — Magnetic stripe.
  • manage up — to build a successful working relationship with a superior, manager, or employer
  • megaflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one million floating-point operations per second.
  • megalopia — macropsia.
  • megalopic — having large eyes
  • megapenny — /meg'*-pen"ee/ $10,000 (1 cent * 10^6). Used semi-humorously as a unit in comparing computer cost and performance figures.
  • megaphone — a cone-shaped device for magnifying or directing the voice, chiefly used in addressing a large audience out of doors or in calling to someone at a distance. Compare bullhorn.
  • megaphyll — the relatively large type of leaf produced by ferns and seed plants
  • megapixel — a unit equal to one million pixels, used to measure the resolution of a digital image: My camera has a resolution of 12 megapixels.
  • megapodes — Plural form of megapode.
  • megapolis — megalopolis.
  • megascope — A modification of the magic lantern, used especially for throwing a magnified image of an opaque object on a screen, solar or artificial light being used.
  • megaspore — the larger of the two kinds of spores characteristically produced by seed plants and a few fern allies, developing into a female gametophyte. Compare microspore.
  • multipage — Including or containing multiple pages.
  • neopagans — Plural form of neopagan.
  • nephogram — a photograph of a cloud
  • oleograph — a chromolithograph printed in oil colors on canvas or cloth.
  • open game — a relatively simple game involving open ranks and files, permitting tactical play, and usually following symmetrical development
  • open goal — a goal which is left open or undefended
  • operagoer — a person who attends opera performances.
  • operating — used or engaged in performing operations: an operating surgeon.
  • orphanage — an institution for the housing and care of orphans.
  • paedology — the study of the character, growth, and development of children
  • page mode — 1.   (hardware, storage)   See page mode DRAM. 2.   (hardware)   An operation mode of video terminals like the IBM 3270, in which the terminal only sends a completed input screen (page) to the host instead of sending each character as the keys are pressed.
  • page view — one viewing of a web page; a single visit: Tracking pageviews is a way of predicting the advertising potential of a website.
  • page-jack — to steal contents or code from a (website) and place it on another website, causing users to be redirected to the other site.
  • pageantry — spectacular display; pomp: the pageantry of a coronation.
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