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9-letter words containing h, a, p, t, e

  • hepatitic — Related to hepatitis and other liver diseases.
  • hepatitis — inflammation of the liver, caused by a virus or a toxin and characterized by jaundice, liver enlargement, and fever.
  • hepatomas — Plural form of hepatoma.
  • hepatoxic — Exhibiting hepatoxicity.
  • 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.
  • heptanone — any of three isomeric ketones, C 11 H 14 O, derived from heptane.
  • heptapody — a verse with seven metrical feet
  • heptarchs — Plural form of heptarch.
  • heptarchy — (often initial capital letter) the seven principal concurrent Anglo-Saxon kingdoms supposed to have existed in the 7th and 8th centuries.
  • hepteract — (mathematics) A seven-dimensional hypercube.
  • hermatype — reef-building coral.
  • hippiater — (rare) A veterinarian specializing in horse care.
  • homeopath — a person who practices or favors homeopathy.
  • honeytrap — A stratagem in which irresistible bait is used to lure a victim.
  • hospitage — the position of being a guest
  • hospitale — a place of lodging
  • hospitate — (obsolete, transitive) To receive with hospitality; to lodge as a guest.
  • hot plate — a portable appliance for cooking, formerly heated by a gas burner placed underneath it, now heated chiefly by an electrical unit in the appliance.
  • hotplates — Plural form of hotplate.
  • hourplate — the dial of a clock or watch
  • hypermart — a very large, discount supermarket with a maximum range of products including groceries, apparel and general household goods
  • hypertalk — A verbose semicompiled language by Bill Atkinson and Dan Winkler, with loose syntax and high readability. HyperTalk uses HyperCard as an object management system, development environment and interface builder. Programs are organised into "stacks" of "cards", each of which may have "buttons" and "fields". All data storage is in zero-terminated strings in fields, local, or global variables; all data references are through "chunk expressions" of the form: 'last item of background field "Name List" of card ID 34217'. Flow of control is event-driven and uses message-passing among scripts that are attached to stack, background, card, field and button objects.
  • hypethral — (of a classical building) wholly or partly open to the sky.
  • hyphenate — to join by a hyphen.
  • hypotheca — (microbiology, planktology) The lower or posterior half of the theca of a thecate protist such as a diatom or dinoflagellate.
  • integraph — integrator (def 2).
  • merneptah — king of ancient Egypt c1225–c1215 b.c. (son of Ramses II).
  • metamorph — (biology) An organism that has undergone metamorphosis.
  • metaphase — the stage in mitosis or meiosis in which the duplicated chromosomes line up along the equatorial plate of the spindle.
  • metaphone — (algorithm, text)   An algorithm for encoding a word so that similar sounding words encode the same. It's similar to soundex in purpose, but as it knows the basic rules of English pronunciation it's more accurate. The higher accuracy doesn't come free, though, metaphone requires more computational power as well as more storage capacity, but neither of these requirements are usually prohibitive. It is in the public domain so it can be freely implemented. Metaphone was developed by Lawrence Philips <[email protected]>. It is described in ["Practical Algorithms for Programmers", Binstock & Rex, Addison Wesley, 1995].
  • metaphore — Misspelling of metaphor.
  • metaphors — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
  • metaphyte — a multicellular plant.
  • naphthene — any of a group of hydrocarbon ring compounds of the general formula, C n H 2n , derivatives of cyclopentane and cyclohexane, found in certain petroleums.
  • nephalist — (obsolete, Temperance movement) One who practises nephalism; a teetotaller.
  • neuropath — A person affected by nervous disease, or with an abnormally sensitive nervous system.
  • omphacite — a pale-green variety of pyroxene similar to olivine, found in eclogite.
  • opera hat — a man's tall, collapsible top hat, held open or in shape by springs and usually covered with a black, silky fabric. Also called gibus. Compare beaver1 (def 4), silk hat, top hat.
  • orthopnea — difficult or painful breathing except in an erect sitting or standing position.
  • osteopath — a physician who practices osteopathy.
  • outpreach — to outdo in preaching or overcome by preaching
  • pachytene — the third stage of prophase in meiosis, during which each chromosome pair separates into sister chromatids with some breakage and crossing over of genes.
  • packsheet — a cloth used for packing goods
  • paleolith — a paleolithic stone implement.
  • panchetto — a Renaissance chair having three splayed legs and a shaped back joined into a solid wooden seat.
  • pantheism — the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God's personality and expresses a tendency to identify God and nature.
  • pantheist — the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God's personality and expresses a tendency to identify God and nature.
  • panthenol — pantothenyl alcohol
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