9-letter words containing h, e, m, p
- muck heap — a pile of dung, soil or refuse
- muckheaps — Plural form of muckheap.
- mudhopper — an amphibious fish found on mud flats and in mangrove swamps
- mycophile — A person who likes hunting for, cooking or eating mushrooms and other edible fungi.
- mysophobe — A person with an abnormal fear of filth or dirt.
- mythopoet — a writer of mythic verse
- nemophila — any of a genus, Nemophila, of low-growing hairy annual plants, esp N. menziesii, grown for its blue or white flowers: family Hydrophyllaceae
- neomorphs — Plural form of neomorph.
- nephalism — teetotalism; abstinence from alcohol
- nephogram — a photograph of a cloud
- nymphaeum — a room or area having a fountain, statues, flowers, etc.
- nymphetic — relating to a nymphet
- nymphette — Alternative form of nymphet.
- nymphlike — Resembling a nymph.
- omphacite — a pale-green variety of pyroxene similar to olivine, found in eclogite.
- oppenheim — E(dward) Phillips, 1866–1946, English novelist.
- pachyderm — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
- pachynema — the third stage of prophase in meiosis, during which each chromosome pair separates into sister chromatids with some breakage and crossing over of genes.
- palmhouse — a greenhouse for growing tropical plants, esp palms
- 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.
- pararhyme — a part-rhyme in which the consonants are the same but the vowels are different
- parchment — the skin of sheep, goats, etc., prepared for use as a material on which to write.
- pc-scheme — Version 3.03 compiler, debugger, profiler, editor, libraries Written at Texas Instruments. Runs on MS-DOS 286/386 IBM PCs and compatibles. Includes an optimising compiler, an emacs-like editor, inspector, debugger, performance testing, foreign function interface, window system and an object-oriented subsystem. Also supports the dialect used in Hal Abelson and Gerald Sussman's SICP. Conformance: Revised^3 Report, also supports dialect used in SICP. restriction: official version is $95, contact <[email protected]> See also PCS/Geneva.
- pemphigus — any of several diseases, often fatal, characterized by blisters on the skin and mucous membranes.
- perilymph — the fluid between the bony and membranous labyrinths of the ear.
- perimorph — a crystal of one mineral enclosing that of another mineral. Compare endomorph (def 1).
- peshmerga — a member of the armed forces in the autonomous Kurdish-controlled region of NE Iraq
- petersham — a heavy woolen cloth for men's overcoats and other bulky outerwear.
- pforzheim — a city in W Baden-Württemberg, in SW Germany.
- phagosome — a vacuole within a phagocyte that contains bacteria or other ingested particles and that becomes fused with a lysosome.
- phenakism — a form of deceit or craftiness
- phenogram — a diagram depicting taxonomic relationships among organisms based on overall similarity of many characteristics without regard to evolutionary history or assumed significance of specific characters: usually generated by computer.
- phenomena — a plural of phenomenon.
- pheromone — any chemical substance released by an animal that serves to influence the physiology or behavior of other members of the same species.
- philomela — the nightingale.
- phonemics — the study of phonemes and phonemic systems.
- phonetism — the science of speech sounds and of writing phonetically
- phraseman — a man who coins or uses clever phrases
- pnom penh — Phnom Penh
- polemarch — (in ancient Greece) a civilian official, originally a supreme general
- premonish — to admonish beforehand; forewarn
- pyrethrum — any of several chrysanthemums, as Chrysanthemum coccineum, having finely divided leaves and showy red, pink, lilac, or white flowers, cultivated as an ornamental.
- romp home — to win a race easily
- semaphore — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
- shampooed — to wash (the head or hair), especially with a cleaning preparation that does not leave a soap film.
- sophomore — a student in the second year of high school or college.
- steamship — a large commercial vessel, especially one driven by steam.
- sunn-hemp — a tall East Indian shrub, Crotalaria juncea, of the legume family, having slender branches and yellow flowers, and an inner bark that yields a hemplike fiber used for making ropes, sacking, etc.
- telepheme — a message sent by telephone
- tempelhof — a district of S West Berlin: international airport.