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10-letter words containing h, e, p

  • hand press — a printing press requiring hand operation.
  • hand-me-up — something, such as an item of electronic equipment, that is passed from a younger to an older member of a family
  • hand-piece — handheld, power-operated shears used by a shearer
  • hand-spike — a bar used as a lever.
  • handphones — Plural form of handphone.
  • handpicked — Picked by hand; picked or selected with care.
  • handpieces — Plural form of handpiece.
  • handspikes — Plural form of handspike.
  • haplophase — the haploid portion of an organism's life cycle.
  • haplotypes — Plural form of haplotype.
  • happenings — something that happens; occurrence; event.
  • haptometer — a mechanical device for measuring the sense of touch.
  • hard maple — the sugar maple, Acer saccharum.
  • hard paste — true porcelain, made with kaolin, feldspar, quartz, or petuntse.
  • hard peach — a clingstone peach.
  • hard power — the ability to achieve one's goals by force, esp military force
  • harelipped — Usually Offensive. cleft lip.
  • harpooneer — A harpooner.
  • harrumphed — to clear the throat audibly in a self-important manner: The professor harrumphed good-naturedly.
  • harrumpher — (informal) One who complains or moralizes.
  • hartlepool — a seaport city in NE England.
  • haruspices — Plural form of haruspex.
  • hatshepsut — 1495–75 b.c, queen of Egypt.
  • hawsepipes — Plural form of hawsepipe.
  • hazel park — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
  • headphones — Audio. a headset designed for use with a stereo system.
  • headpieces — Plural form of headpiece.
  • headspring — the fountainhead or source of a stream.
  • headstripe — A stripe of colored feathers on the head of a bird.
  • health spa — a resort or a special building or room where a person may exercise, swim, or otherwise condition the body.
  • heat cramp — a cramp or muscular spasm caused by loss of water and salt following prolonged exertion in hot weather.
  • heavy spar — barite.
  • heavy type — type that is thicker and blacker than normal type
  • hectograph — a process for making copies of a letter, memorandum, etc., from a prepared gelatin surface to which the original writing has been transferred.
  • hectorship — the quality or character of a hector
  • hedgeapple — Alternate name for the fruit of the osage orange tree, also known as the hedge tree.
  • heelpieces — Plural form of heelpiece.
  • hektograph — to copy with the hectograph.
  • helicopter — any of a class of heavier-than-air craft that are lifted and sustained in the air horizontally by rotating wings or blades turning on vertical axes through power supplied by an engine.
  • heliograph — a device for signaling by means of a movable mirror that reflects beams of light, especially sunlight, to a distance.
  • heliopause — the boundary of the heliosphere.
  • heliophile — Any organism that is attracted to large amounts of sunlight.
  • heliophyte — a plant that grows best in full sunlight.
  • heliopolis — Biblical name On. an ancient ruined city in N Egypt, on the Nile delta.
  • helioscope — a telescope for viewing the sun, adapted to protect the eye of the viewer from the sun's glare.
  • heliotrope — any hairy plant belonging to the genus Heliotropium, of the borage family, as H. arborescens, cultivated for its small, fragrant purple flowers.
  • heliotropy — the growth of plants in a particular direction as a response to the stimulus of light, heliotropism
  • hellespont — ancient name of the Dardanelles.
  • helplessly — unable to help oneself; weak or dependent: a helpless invalid.
  • hemianopia — any of several conditions in which there is blindness in half of the visual field, involving one or both eyes.
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