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10-letter words containing h, a, p, o

  • smartphone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
  • smoothpate — a bald person with a smooth head
  • sociopathy — a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
  • solar ship — (in ancient Egypt) a boat placed in or near the tomb of a king to transport him to the sun.
  • sonography — the medical diagnostic imaging technique used to see internal organs, muscles, etc
  • sophoclean — 495?–406? b.c, Greek dramatist.
  • soul patch — a small patch of facial hair below the centre of the lower lip and above the chin
  • sousaphone — a form of bass tuba, similar to the helicon, used in brass bands.
  • south pass — a mountain pass in SW Wyoming, cutting through the Rocky Mountains at the S of the Wind River range: part of the Oregon Trail.
  • space shoe — a custom shoe molded to the contours of the wearer's foot
  • space shot — the launch of a spacecraft and its subsequent flight in space
  • spatchcock — a fowl that has been dressed and split open for grilling.
  • spaza shop — South African slang for a small shop in a township
  • sphenogram — a cuneiform character.
  • sphenoidal — relating to the sphenoid bone
  • spheroidal — pertaining to a spheroid or spheroids.
  • spirograph — an instrument for recording respiratory movements.
  • splanchno- — the viscera
  • splash out — If you splash out on something, especially on a luxury, you buy it even though it costs a lot of money.
  • splashdown — the landing of a space vehicle in a body of water, especially the ocean.
  • spokeshave — a cutting tool having a blade set between two handles, originally for shaping spokes, but now in general use for dressing curved edges of wood and forming round bars and shapes.
  • staphyloma — a condition in which the sclera or cornea of the eye projects outwards due to inflammation
  • stenograph — any of various keyboard instruments, somewhat resembling a typewriter, used for writing in shorthand, as by means of phonetic or arbitrary symbols.
  • stylograph — a fountain pen in which the writing point is a fine, hollow tube instead of a nib.
  • sulphonate — a salt or ester of any sulphonic acid containing the ion RSO2O– or the group RSO2O–, R being an organic group
  • supermacho — extremely macho
  • sweat-shop — a shop employing workers at low wages, for long hours, and under poor conditions.
  • sycophancy — self-seeking or servile flattery.
  • synaloepha — the blending of two successive vowels into one, especially the coalescence of a vowel at the end of one word with a vowel at the beginning of the next.
  • tachograph — a recording tachometer.
  • tachypnoea — excessively rapid respiration.
  • tautophony — the repetition of a sound
  • teichopsia — a temporary visual impairment associated with migraine
  • theophanic — a manifestation or appearance of God or a god to a person.
  • theophobia — morbid fear or hatred of God
  • thesprotia — an ancient coastal district in SW Epirus.
  • tocophobia — an abnormal fear of giving birth or becoming pregnant
  • tomography — a machine for making an x-ray of a selected plane of the body.
  • toothpaste — a dentifrice in the form of paste.
  • top-hamper — the light upper sails and their gear and spars, sometimes used to refer to all spars and gear above the deck.
  • top-hatted — wearing a top hat
  • tophaceous — a calcareous concretion formed in the soft tissue about a joint, in the pinna of the ear, etc., especially in gout; a gouty deposit.
  • topography — the detailed mapping or charting of the features of a relatively small area, district, or locality.
  • topophilia — the love of or emotional connections with place or physical environment
  • touchpaper — paper saturated with potassium nitrate to make it burn slowly, used for igniting explosives and fireworks.
  • toxiphobia — an abnormal fear of being poisoned.
  • trap house — a shelter from which the clay pigeons are released in trapshooting.
  • trophesial — involving or relating to trophesy
  • tryptophan — an essential amino acid, (C 8 H 6 N)CH 2 CH(NH 2)COOH, colorless, crystalline, and aromatic, released from proteins by tryptic digestion and a precursor of serotonin. Symbol: W. Abbreviation: Trp;
  • typhaceous — belonging to the family of flowering plants Typhaceae
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