8-letter words containing h, a, p, o
- chaperon — (esp formerly) an older or married woman who accompanies or supervises a young unmarried woman on social occasions
- charpoys — Plural form of charpoy.
- compathy — feelings, as happiness or grief, shared with another or others.
- copperah — copra.
- dashpots — Plural form of dashpot.
- diaphone — the set of all realizations of a given phoneme in a language
- diaphony — a style of two-part polyphonic singing; organum or a freer form resembling it
- diphonia — diplophonia.
- dogpatch — a poor rural community in the U.S., especially in the South, whose inhabitants are unsophisticated and have little education: He acts like he's been raised in a Dogpatch.
- dopehead — a drug addict.
- dramshop — bar; barroom; saloon.
- drophead — (British) Shortened form of 'drophead coupé'.
- earphone — a sound receiver that fits in or over the ear, as of a radio or telephone.
- ephorate — The office of an ephor; ephors collectively.
- epiphora — Excessive watering of the eye.
- ethiopia — country in East Africa
- euphobia — Fear of hearing good news.
- euphoria — A feeling or state of intense excitement and happiness.
- exophagy — the practice of cannibalism outside of the tribe or family
- exophora — Reference in a text or utterance to something external to it, which is only fully intelligible in terms of information about the extralinguistic situation.
- footpath — a path for people going on foot.
- gazpacho — a soup made of chopped tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, garlic, oil, and vinegar, and served cold.
- geophagy — the practice of eating earthy matter, especially clay or chalk, as in famine-stricken areas.
- haiphong — a seaport in N Vietnam, near the Gulf of Tonkin.
- halophil — Halobacterium.
- hamerkop — Alternative spelling of hammerkop.
- hanepoot — a variety of muscat grape used as a dessert fruit and in making wine
- haploidy — (genetics) The state of being haploid.
- haplopia — normal vision (opposed to diplopia).
- haplosis — the production of haploid chromosome groups during meiosis.
- happoshu — a Japanese drink, similar to beer
- hapteron — a structure by which a fungus, aquatic plant, or algae colony attaches to an object; a holdfast.
- hard bop — an aggressive, driving, hot style of modern jazz developed by East Coast musicians in the late 1950s as a rejection of the more relaxed, cool style of West Coast jazz. Compare bop1 , cool jazz, modern jazz, progressive jazz.
- hard top — A hard top is a vehicle that has a permanent rigid roof.
- hardcopy — copy, as computer output printed on paper, that can be read without using a special device (opposed to soft copy).
- hardtops — Plural form of hardtop.
- harpagon — (obsolete) a grappling hook.
- harpoons — Plural form of harpoon.
- hat shop — a shop that sell hats
- headrope — the part of a bolt-rope attached to the head of a sail
- heatspot — a spot on the skin or other surface produced by heat
- hemiopia — hemianopsia.
- hepatoma — a tumor of the liver.
- heptagon — a polygon having seven angles and seven sides.
- hexapods — Plural form of hexapod.
- hexapody — a measure consisting of six feet.
- hexapole — (physics) Anything having six poles or electrodes.
- hispano- — Hispanic
- homepage — Alternative form of home page.
- hoop-man — a basketball player.