9-letter words containing h, e, p
- therapist — a person trained in the use of physical methods, as exercises, heat treatments, etc., in treating or rehabilitating the sick or wounded or helping patients overcome physical defects.
- therapsid — any of various groups of mammallike reptiles of the extinct order Therapsida, inhabiting all continents from mid-Permian to late Triassic times, some of which were probably warm-blooded and directly ancestral to mammals.
- thereupon — immediately following that.
- thiophene — a water-insoluble, colorless liquid, C 4 H 4 S, resembling benzene, occurring in crude coal-tar benzene: used chiefly as a solvent and in organic synthesis.
- three ply — three-stranded knitting wool
- three-ply — consisting of three thicknesses, laminations, strands, or the like.
- threepeat — to win a third consecutive victory.
- tightrope — a rope or wire cable, stretched tight, on which acrobats perform feats of balancing.
- tip sheet — a short publication containing the latest information, predictions, and tips for a particular business or subject: tip sheets for horse racing; a tip sheet for gamblers; a stock-market tip sheet; a tip sheet about safety concerns.
- tisiphone — one of the Furies.
- titleship — lawful claim to title, especially of property.
- top shelf — of highest quality
- top-heavy — having the top disproportionately heavy; liable to fall from too great weight above.
- top-shell — any marine gastropod mollusc of the mainly tropical Old World family Trochidae, having a typically brightly coloured top-shaped or conical shell
- tophamper — the light upper sails and their gear and spars, sometimes used to refer to all spars and gear above the deck.
- toxaphene — an amber, waxy, water-insoluble solid, whose principal constituent is chlorinated camphene, used as an insecticide and as a rodenticide.
- tragelaph — a mythical animal that is a cross between a goat and a stag
- trephiner — a surgeon who works with a trephine
- trimphone — a phone designed in the 1960s
- triumphed — the act, fact, or condition of being victorious or triumphant; victory; conquest.
- trophaeum — tropaeum.
- tubuphone — an instrument resembling a glockenspiel but with metal tubes instead of bars.
- turophile — a connoisseur or lover of cheese.
- two-phase — diphase.
- type-high — of a height equal to the distance from the foot to the face of a type: 0.918 inches (23.3 mm).
- umpteenth — of an indefinitely large number in succession: He was the umpteenth person to arrive.
- uncleship — the position or status of an uncle; the condition of being an uncle
- unhelpful — giving or rendering aid or assistance; of service: Your comments were very helpful.
- unhopeful — full of hope; expressing hope: His hopeful words stimulated optimism.
- unpatched — a small piece of material used to mend a tear or break, to cover a hole, or to strengthen a weak place: patches at the elbows of a sports jacket.
- unshapely — not shapely
- unshipped — not shipped, as goods.
- unwhipped — not whipped
- upholster — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
- uplighter — a lamp or wall light designed or positioned to cast its light upwards
- upthunder — to make a noise like thunder
- ursprache — a hypothetically reconstructed parent language, as Proto-Germanic, the ancestor of the Germanic languages.
- ushership — the position or office of an usher
- viperfish — any of several deep-sea fishes of the family Chauliodontidae, having a large mouth and fanglike teeth, some species having light-emitting organs on their bodies.
- vitaphone — an early technique in commercial film-making in which the accompanying sound was produced by discs
- wahpekute — a member of a North American Indian people belonging to the Santee branch of the Dakota.
- wash-wipe — a windscreen wiper
- washed up — capable of being washed without shrinking, fading, etc.; washable: a wash dress.
- washed-up — done for; having failed completely.
- wear ship — to change the tack of a sailing vessel, esp a square-rigger, by coming about so that the wind passes astern
- webphones — Plural form of webphone.
- weep hole — a hole in a sill, retaining wall, or the like for draining off accumulated moisture, as from condensation or seepage.
- wheelspin — the spinning of a wheel, especially that of a drive wheel of a powered vehicle that has poor traction.
- whelpless — without a whelp
- whereupon — Immediately after which.