9-letter words containing h, e, r, p
- exophoric — Relating to, or exhibiting, exophora.
- exosphere — The outermost region of a planet's atmosphere.
- exstrophy — (medicine) The eversion or turning out of any organ, or of its inner surface.
- fire ship — a vessel loaded with combustibles and explosives, ignited, and set adrift to destroy an enemy's ships or constructions.
- galumpher — a person or animal that leaps or moves heavily or clumsily
- gather up — collect
- 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.
- geosphere — the solid portion of the earth (distinguished from atmosphere, hydrosphere).
- gonophore — an asexually produced bud in hydrozoans that gives rise to the equivalent of a medusa.
- 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.
- gynophore — the elongated stalk of a pistil.
- hairpiece — a toupee.
- 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).
- handpress — a printing press that is manipulated by hand
- harden up — to tighten the sheets of a sailing vessel so as to prevent luffing
- hardscape — the manmade part of the grounds surrounding a building, as paved areas or statues.
- harp seal — a northern earless seal, Pagophilus groenlandicus, with pale-yellow fur darkening to gray with age, of coasts, drifting ice, and seas of the North Atlantic Ocean, hunted for its fur.
- harpooned — Simple past tense and past participle of harpoon.
- harpooner — a barbed, spearlike missile attached to a rope, and thrown by hand or shot from a gun, used for killing and capturing whales and large fish.
- harpylike — resembling a harpy
- harumphed — Simple past tense and past participle of harumph.
- head trip — a mentally exhilarating or productive experience, as one in which a person's intellect or imagination seems to expand.
- heatproof — not affected or damaged by heat, especially when placed in an oven or over a direct flame: heatproof cookware.
- heliports — Plural form of heliport.
- helm port — the opening at the stern of a ship, through which a rudderstock passes.
- hemiptera — the order comprising the true bugs.
- hemitrope — twin1 (def 5).
- hemotroph — the material from the maternal bloodstream and placenta that nourishes a mammalian embryo.
- hemp tree — chaste tree.
- hen party — a party or gathering for women only.
- heptarchs — Plural form of heptarch.
- heptarchy — (often initial capital letter) the seven principal concurrent Anglo-Saxon kingdoms supposed to have existed in the 7th and 8th centuries.
- hepteract — (mathematics) A seven-dimensional hypercube.
- herceptin — a monoclonal antibody that inhibits the protein that can fuel tumour growth, used in the treatment of breast cancer
- hermatype — reef-building coral.
- herpetoid — reptilian, reptiliform
- hesperian — western; occidental.
- heteropod — any marine invertebrate with a foot or feet adapted for swimming
- higher-up — a person in a position of higher authority in an organization; superior.
- hiphugger — (of a garment) having a close-fitting waistline placed at the hip rather than at the natural waist: hiphugger jeans.
- hippiater — (rare) A veterinarian specializing in horse care.
- hippurite — an extinct type of bivalve mollusc (family Hippuritidae) found as fossils from the late Cretaceous period
- holeproof — (of fabric or an article of clothing) designed or made so as to prevent holes.
- home port — the port where a ship is registered.