9-letter words containing h, e, p
- galumpher — a person or animal that leaps or moves heavily or clumsily
- gather up — collect
- genophobe — A person who has a psychological fear of sexual relations or sexual intercourse.
- geography — the science dealing with the areal differentiation of the earth's surface, as shown in the character, arrangement, and interrelations over the world of such elements as climate, elevation, soil, vegetation, population, land use, industries, or states, and of the unit areas formed by the complex of these individual elements.
- geophagia — Consumption of clay, chalk or dirt.
- geophilic — soil-loving
- geophones — Plural form of geophone.
- geophytes — Plural form of geophyte.
- geophytic — Relating to geophytes.
- geosphere — the solid portion of the earth (distinguished from atmosphere, hydrosphere).
- glidepath — the course followed by an aircraft or spacecraft when descending for a landing.
- gomphoses — an immovable articulation in which one bone or part is received in a cavity in another, as a tooth in its socket.
- gonophore — an asexually produced bud in hydrozoans that gives rise to the equivalent of a medusa.
- good hope — Cape of Good Hope.
- gophering — any of several ground squirrels of the genus Citellus, of the prairie regions of North America.
- grapeshot — a cluster of small cast-iron balls formerly used as a charge for a cannon.
- graphemes — Plural form of grapheme.
- graphemic — Of or pertaining to graphemes or their study.
- graphited — Modified by the addition of graphite.
- guideship — the position of a guide
- gynophobe — a person who hates or fears women
- gynophore — the elongated stalk of a pistil.
- gypsyhead — a flanged drum on a winch, for winding in lines.
- haanepoot — a type of white wine made from the Hanepoot grape
- 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.
- hairpiece — a toupee.
- halazepam — a derivative of benzodiazepine, C 17 H 12 ClF 3 N 2 O, used for management of anxiety disorders.
- half step — Music. semitone.
- half-open — (of a file) having a pawn or pawns of only one colour on it
- half-pace — a small stage on which something stands
- half-peck — a unit of dry measure equal to 4 quarts (4.4 liters).
- half-pike — spontoon.
- half-pipe — a half-moon-shaped chute or ramp used by snowboarders and skateboarders to provide a takeoff for a jump.
- half-step — Music. semitone.
- halfpence — Plural form of halfpenny.
- halfpenny — a bronze coin of the United Kingdom, equal to half a penny: use phased out in 1984.
- halfpipes — Plural form of halfpipe.
- halophile — any organism, as certain halobacteria and marine bacteria, that requires a salt-rich environment for its growth and survival.
- halophobe — a creature that is unable to live in salty conditions
- halophyte — a plant that thrives in saline soil.
- hammerkop — A bird from southern Africa, Scopus umbretta, of the Scopidae family and related to the herons.
- hampering — to hold back; hinder; impede: A steady rain hampered the progress of the work.
- hampshire — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
- hampstead — a former borough of London, England, now part of Camden.
- handphone — A cordless or cellular phone.
- handpiece — The part of a dental drill, surgical instrument, etc. that is held in the hand.
- handpress — a printing press that is manipulated by hand
- handshape — (in sign language) the held position of the hand and fingers in producing a particular sign.
- handspike — a bar used as a lever.
- haplessly — In a hapless manner.