10-letter words containing h, a, p, o
- hemophobia — an abnormal fear of blood.
- hepatocyte — a cell of the main tissue of the liver; liver cell.
- hepatolith — A gallstone in the biliary duct of the liver.
- hepatology — (medicine) The study or treatment of the liver, gallbladder, and pancreas.
- heptachlor — a highly toxic, light-tan, waxy solid, C 10 H 5 Cl 7 , used as an insecticide: its manufacture and use are restricted in the U.S.
- heptachord — a musical scale of seven notes.
- heptagonal — having seven sides or angles.
- heptameron — A literary work whose action covers a period of seven days.
- heptapodic — having seven metrical feet
- heptathlon — an athletic contest for women comprising seven different track-and-field events and won by the contestant amassing the highest total score.
- heptatonic — (of a musical scale) comprising seven notes
- hexaploidy — the condition of being a hexaploid
- hexapodous — (zoology) Having six feet; belonging to the Hexapoda.
- hierograph — sacred writing or characters
- hierophant — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
- hierophany — A physical manifestation of the holy or sacred, serving as a spiritual eidolon for emulation or worship.
- hippocampi — Classical Mythology. a sea horse with two forefeet, and a body ending in the tail of a dolphin or fish.
- hippomanes — (formerly) a substance found on the forehead of a newborn foal or obtained from a mare in foal, thought to act as an aphrodisiac
- hippomania — A passion for horses.
- hippophagy — the practice of eating horseflesh.
- hippotamus — Obsolete spelling and common present-day misspelling of hippopotamus.
- hispaniola — an island in the West Indies, comprising the republic of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. 29,843 sq. mi. (77,293 sq. km).
- hog peanut — a twining plant, Amphicarpaea bracteata, of the legume family, bearing pods that ripen in or on the ground.
- holdup man — a person who commits an armed robbery.
- holocarpic — (of a fungus) having the entire thallus converted into fruiting bodies.
- holographs — Plural form of holograph.
- holography — the process or technique of making holograms.
- holophotal — reflecting and redirecting all or a large amount of the light from a source
- holophrase — a word functioning as a phrase or sentence, as the imperative Go!
- holy place — somewhere sacred
- home plate — the base at which the batter stands and which a base runner must reach safely in order to score a run, typically a five-sided slab of whitened rubber set at ground level at the front corner of the diamond.
- home scrap — scrap steel reprocessed in the steel mill in which it was produced.
- homeopathy — the method of treating disease by drugs, given in minute doses, that would produce in a healthy person symptoms similar to those of the disease (opposed to allopathy).
- homoeopath — Alternative spelling of homeopath.
- homographs — a word of the same written form as another but of different meaning and usually origin, whether pronounced the same way or not, as bear 1 “to carry; support” and bear 2 “animal” or lead 1 “to conduct” and lead 2 “metal.”.
- homography — The state or quality of being spelt homographically; the state or quality of existing as homographs.
- homophilia — (dated) homosexuality.
- homophobia — unreasoning fear of or antipathy toward homosexuals and homosexuality.
- homopteran — homopterous.
- honor camp — a prison work camp operating on an honor system.
- hoop snake — any of several harmless snakes, as the mud snake and rainbow snake, fabled to take its tail in its mouth and roll along like a hoop.
- hop garden — a field of hops
- hopper car — a freight car, usually open at the top and containing one or more hoppers so that bulk cargo can be quickly discharged through its bottom.
- hopsacking — bagging made chiefly of hemp and jute.
- horography — the art of constructing time-keeping instruments such as watches and clocks
- hospitable — receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously: a hospitable family.
- hospitably — 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.
- hot potato — Informal. a situation or issue that is difficult, unpleasant, or risky to deal with.