10-letter words containing g, o, p, h, e
- hepatology — (medicine) The study or treatment of the liver, gallbladder, and pancreas.
- heptagonal — having seven sides or angles.
- hieroglyph — Also, hieroglyphical. designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols are conventionalized, recognizable pictures of the things represented.
- hierograph — sacred writing or characters
- high hopes — great expectations
- high-power — (of a rifle) of a sufficiently high muzzle velocity and using a heavy enough bullet to kill large game.
- hodgepodge — a heterogeneous mixture; jumble.
- hog peanut — a twining plant, Amphicarpaea bracteata, of the legume family, bearing pods that ripen in or on the ground.
- hop garden — a field of hops
- hyetograph — a map or chart showing the average rainfall for the localities represented.
- hygiaphone — a glass screen through which an employee may speak to members of the public, eg at a ticket office
- hygrophobe — a plant that grows best with little or no moisture
- hygrophyte — a plant that thrives in wet or very moist ground.
- hygroscope — an instrument that indicates the approximate humidity of the air.
- hypergolic — (especially of rocket-fuel propellant constituents) igniting spontaneously upon contact with a complementary substance.
- hypnogenic — of or relating to the induction of sleep
- hypogenous — growing beneath, or on the undersurface, as fungi on leaves.
- hypogeusia — a disease characterized by a decreased ability to taste and, sometimes, to smell: associated with a zinc deficiency
- hypozeugma — the use of a succession of subjects with a single predicate.
- ideographs — an ideogram.
- ideography — the use of ideograms.
- 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.).
- macrophage — a large white blood cell, occurring principally in connective tissue and in the bloodstream, that ingests foreign particles and infectious microorganisms by phagocytosis.
- mareograph — marigraph.
- megaphoned — Simple past tense and past participle of megaphone.
- megaphones — Plural form of megaphone.
- megaphonic — Of, or pertaining to, a megaphone.
- microphage — a small phagocytic cell in blood or lymph, especially a polymorphonuclear leukocyte.
- mimeograph — a printing machine with an ink-fed drum, around which a cut waxed stencil is placed and which rotates as successive sheets of paper are fed into it.
- morphogene — (genetics) Any gene that is involved in growth or in morphogenesis.
- morphogens — Plural form of morphogen.
- morphogeny — a biological term denoting the origin and development of morphological forms
- mugho pine — a prostrate, shrubby pine, Pinus mugo mugo, native to Europe, cultivated as an ornamental.
- necrophage — An organism that eats dead or decaying flesh.
- necrophagy — The eating of dead or decaying animal flesh.
- negrophile — a white or other nonblack person who is especially sympathetic to or supportive of black people.
- negrophobe — a person who strongly fears or dislikes black people.
- nephograph — an instrument for photographing clouds
- nephrology — the branch of medical science that deals with the kidney.
- nightscope — An optical instrument that provides night vision.
- oesophagus — (anatomy) The tube that carries food from the pharynx to the stomach.
- oglethorpe — James Edward, 1696–1785, British general: founder of the colony of Georgia.
- oleographs — Plural form of oleograph.
- open sight — (on a firearm) a rear sight consisting of a notch across which the gunner aligns the front sight on the target.
- orphanages — Plural form of orphanage.
- pathogenic — Pathology. capable of producing disease: pathogenic bacteria.
- pemphigoid — any of several diseases, often fatal, characterized by blisters on the skin and mucous membranes.
- pemphigous — of, relating to, or affected by pemphigus
- petroglyph — a drawing or carving on rock, made by a member of a prehistoric people.