9-letter words containing h, a, p, u
- gorakhpur — a city in SE Uttar Pradesh, in N India.
- guardship — a warship responsible for the safety of other ships in its company
- hacked up — (jargon, programming) Sufficiently patched, kluged, and tweaked that the surgical scars are beginning to crowd out normal tissue (compare critical mass). Not all programs that are hacked become "hacked up"; if modifications are done with some eye to coherence and continued maintainability, the software may emerge better for the experience. Contrast hack up.
- hands up! — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- hapsburgs — a German princely family, prominent since the 13th century, that has furnished sovereigns to the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Spain, etc.
- hard-spun — (of yarn) compactly twisted in spinning.
- harden up — to tighten the sheets of a sailing vessel so as to prevent luffing
- harrumphs — Plural form of harrumph.
- harumphed — Simple past tense and past participle of harumph.
- haruspicy — divination by a haruspex.
- hauppauge — a city on central Long Island, in SE New York.
- hauptmann — Gerhart [ger-hahrt] /ˈgɛr hɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1862–1946, German dramatist, novelist, and poet: Nobel Prize 1912.
- havasupai — a member of a small tribe of nomadic North American Indians now living in Arizona.
- heat pump — a device that uses a compressible refrigerant to transfer heat from one body, as the ground, air, or water, to another body, as a building, with the process being reversible.
- hourplate — the dial of a clock or watch
- hula hoop — toy: plastic hoop
- humpbacks — Plural form of humpback.
- hypocaust — a hollow space or system of channels in the floor or walls of some ancient Roman buildings that provided a central heating system by receiving and distributing the heat from a furnace.
- ispaghula — dietary fibre derived from the seed husks of Plantago orata and used as a thickener or stabilizer in the food industry
- john paul — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1798–1858, president of the Republic of Texas.
- jump head — the headline printed over the continued portion of a story in a newspaper, magazine, etc., usually condensed from the main headline.
- junk heap — an accumulation of refuse and discarded matter
- kampuchea — People's Republic of, a former official name of Cambodia.
- kharagpur — city in SW West Bengal, India: pop. 265,000
- kintpuash — (Kintpuash) 1837?–73, Modoc leader.
- lampbrush — (rare) A form of brush, containing loops of material, used for dusting light fittings.
- launchpad — the platform on which a missile or launch vehicle undergoes final prelaunch checkout and countdown and from which it is launched from the surface of the earth.
- lunchpail — lunchbox.
- mouthpart — Usually, mouthparts. the appendages surrounding or associated with the mouth of arthropods.
- muck heap — a pile of dung, soil or refuse
- muckheaps — Plural form of muckheap.
- multipath — a way beaten, formed, or trodden by the feet of persons or animals.
- naphthous — of, relating to or derived from naphtha
- naupathia — (medicine) seasickness.
- neuropath — A person affected by nervous disease, or with an abnormally sensitive nervous system.
- nymphaeum — a room or area having a fountain, statues, flowers, etc.
- outparish — a parish located outside the boundaries of or at a distance from a town or city; an outlying parish.
- outpreach — to outdo in preaching or overcome by preaching
- pachomius — Saint, a.d. 292?–348? Egyptian ascetic: founder of the cenobitical form of monasticism.
- palmhouse — a greenhouse for growing tropical plants, esp palms
- pan-human — of, relating to, or affecting all humanity.
- pankhurst — Christabel Harriette, 1880–1958, English suffragist leader (daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst).
- parachute — a folding, umbrellalike, fabric device with cords supporting a harness or straps for allowing a person, object, package, etc., to float down safely through the air from a great height, especially from an aircraft, rendered effective by the resistance of the air that expands it during the descent and reduces the velocity of its fall.
- pass rush — an attempt by the defense to prevent the quarterback from throwing successfully to a receiver.
- patchogue — a town on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- patchouli — a plant, Pogostemon cablin, of tropical Asia, that yields a fragrant oil (patchouli oil) used in the manufacture of perfumes.
- pathocure — Psychiatry. cessation of a neurosis with the appearance of an organic disease.
- paycheque — a payment for work done
- pea shrub — any of various small trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Caragana, of the legume family, native to central Asia, having showy, usually yellow flowers, cultivated as an ornamental.
- peak-hour — during the busiest hours; used esp of traffic and demand for gas, electricity etc