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15-letter words containing h, o, l, p

  • hospitalization — the act, process, or state of being hospitalized.
  • huitzilopochtli — the Aztec god of war and of the sun.
  • humpback salmon — a pink salmon inhabiting North Pacific waters: so-called because of the hump that appears behind the head of the male when it is ready for spawning.
  • hunting leopard — the cheetah.
  • hurdle champion — a hurdler who has defeated all others in a competition
  • hydropathically — in a hydropathic manner; in a manner relating to hydropathy
  • hydrosulphurous — relating to or derived from hydrosulphurous acid
  • hydroxylapatite — Alternative spelling of hydroxyapatite.
  • hygroscopically — In a hygroscopic way.
  • hyper-emotional — pertaining to or involving emotion or the emotions.
  • hyperbolic sine — one of a group of functions of an angle expressed as a relationship between the distances of a point on a hyperbola to the origin and to the coordinate axes; sinh
  • hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
  • hypercoagulable — related to excessive coagulation of the blood or blood clots
  • hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • hypergalactosis — an abnormally large secretion of milk.
  • hyperinvolution — a decrease in the size of an organ following enlargement, usually used to describe the shrinking of the uterus after childbirth
  • hyperlipoidemia — An abnormally high level of lipoids in the blood.
  • hypermetabolism — Biology, Physiology. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Compare anabolism, catabolism.
  • hyperpolarizing — Present participle of hyperpolarize.
  • hypersalivation — the act or process of salivating.
  • hypersomnolence — sleepy; drowsy.
  • hypnotisability — Alternative spelling of hypnotizability.
  • hypnotizability — to put in the hypnotic state.
  • hypoalbuminemia — an abnormally small quantity of albumin in the blood.
  • hypochlorhydria — (pathology) The presence of an insufficient amount of hydrochloric acid in the stomach.
  • hypochondriacal — Also, hypochondriacal, H05/H0509000 hahy-poh-kuh n-drahy-uh-kuh l, ˌhaɪ poʊ kənˈdraɪ ə kəl. Psychiatry. pertaining to or suffering from hypochondria, an excessive preoccupation with and worry about one's health: The comedy is aimed at the hypochondriac demographic. produced by hypochondria: Hypochondriac feelings overwhelmed her.
  • hypocortisolism — (medicine) A cortisol deficiency.
  • hypocrystalline — (of igneous rocks) having both glass and crystalline components
  • hypoinsulinemia — (medicine) An abnormally low level of insulin in the blood.
  • hypoinsulinemic — Having hypoinsulinemia.
  • hypolydian mode — a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from C to C, with the final on F.
  • hypoventilating — Present participle of hypoventilate.
  • hypoventilation — Breathing at an abnormally slow rate, resulting in an increased amount of carbon dioxide in the blood.
  • hysteresis loop — a closed curve showing the variation of the magnetic flux density of a ferromagnetic material with the external magnetic field producing it, when this field is changed through a complete cycle
  • ideographically — an ideogram.
  • immunopathology — the study of diseases having an immunologic or allergic basis.
  • in short supply — If something is in short supply, there is very little of it available and it is difficult to find or obtain.
  • inter-parochial — of, relating to, or financially supported by one or more church parishes: parochial churches in Great Britain.
  • ionospherically — by the ionosphere
  • isle of sheppey — an island in SE England, off the N coast of Kent in the Thames estuary: separated from the mainland by The Swale, a narrow channel. Chief towns: Sheerness, Minster. Pop: 37 852 (2001 est). Area: 80 sq km (30 sq miles)
  • isopropyl ether — a colorless, volatile, flammable, slightly water-soluble liquid, C 6 H 14 O, used chiefly as a solvent for waxes, fats, and resins.
  • joseph pulitzer — Joseph, 1847–1911, U.S. journalist and publisher, born in Hungary.
  • latter prophets — a subdivision of the books constituting the second main part of the Hebrew Bible, comprising those books which in Christian tradition are alone called the Prophets and which are divided into Major Prophets and Minor Prophets
  • learn the ropes — become familiar with sth
  • leukodystrophic — Of or pertaining to leukodystrophy.
  • lexicographical — the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
  • lick into shape — to pass the tongue over the surface of, as to moisten, taste, or eat (often followed by up, off, from, etc.): to lick a postage stamp; to lick an ice-cream cone.
  • light pollution — unwanted or harmful light, as from bright street lights or neon signs.
  • lissencephalous — having the cephalic disorder of a lack of developed brain folds
  • loose chippings — pieces of gravel spread on the top of tarmac that fail to stick to it
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