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11-letter words containing h, o, p, e

  • the top ten — the ten best-selling pop music recordings at any particular time
  • the tropics — that part of the earth's surface between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn; the Torrid Zone
  • the vapours — a depressed mental condition believed originally to be the result of vaporous exhalations from the stomach
  • theomorphic — having the form or likeness of God or a deity.
  • theophagous — relating to theophagy or the practice of symbolically consuming the body of God or a god
  • theophanous — a manifestation or appearance of God or a god to a person.
  • theophobist — a person who fears or despises God or religion
  • theopneusty — divine inspiration; the influence of God's spirit enabling humans to receive a divine truth
  • theosophist — any of various forms of philosophical or religious thought based on a mystical insight into the divine nature.
  • theosophize — to practise theosophy or to think theosophically
  • thermograph — a thermometer that records the temperatures it measures.
  • thermophile — a thermophilic organism.
  • thermophone — an electroacoustic transducer that forms sound waves by the expansion and contraction of the air adjacent to a conductor that varies in temperature according to the magnitude of the current passing through it; formerly used to calibrate microphones.
  • thermopylae — a pass in E Greece, between the cliffs of Mt. Oeta and the Gulf of Lamia: Persian defeat of the Spartans 480 b.c.
  • thermoscope — a device that indicates a change in temperature, esp one that does not measure the actual temperature
  • thorn apple — any poisonous plant belonging to the genus Datura, of the nightshade family, the species of which bear capsules covered with prickly spines, especially the jimson weed, D. stramonium.
  • thread rope — cordage 1/2 inch (1.3 cm) or less in thickness.
  • tool pusher — A tool pusher is someone who supervises drilling operations on an oil rig.
  • topographer — a specialist in topography.
  • total depth — Total depth is the downward length of a well, measured by the length of pipe which is needed to reach the bottom.
  • touch paper — paper saturated with potassium nitrate to make it burn slowly, used for igniting explosives and fireworks.
  • touch plate — a pewter plate belonging to a guild of pewterers and bearing samples of the touchmarks of all pewterers belonging to the guild.
  • toxophilite — a devotee of archery; archer.
  • trochophore — a ciliate, free-swimming larva common to several groups of invertebrates, as many mollusks and rotifers.
  • trophozoite — a protozoan in the metabolically active growth stage.
  • trophy wife — the young, often second, wife of a rich middle-aged man.
  • troposphere — the lowest layer of the atmosphere, 6 miles (10 km) high in some areas and as much as 12 miles (20 km) high in others, within which there is a steady drop in temperature with increasing altitude and within which nearly all cloud formations occur and weather conditions manifest themselves.
  • trout-perch — any of a family (Percopsidae) of North American freshwater bony fishes having spiny and fleshy fins, esp., a species (Percopsis omiscomaycus) of Canada and the E U.S.
  • typographer — a person skilled or engaged in typography.
  • unhoped for — (esp of something pleasant) not anticipated; unexpected
  • unhoped-for — unexpected; unanticipated: an unhoped-for piece of good luck.
  • unhopefully — in an unhopeful manner
  • unprophetic — not prophetic, not seeing future events correctly
  • up the pole — slightly mad
  • upholstered — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
  • upholsterer — a person whose business it is to upholster furniture and, sometimes, to furnish and put in place hangings, curtains, carpets, etc.
  • upholstress — a female upholsterer
  • upper house — one of two branches of a legislature generally smaller and less representative than the lower branch, as the Senate of the U.S. Congress.
  • vaivodeship — the position or office of a vaivode
  • vapor phase — In its vapor phase a substance can be condensed to a liquid or to a solid by increasing its pressure without reducing the temperature.
  • venographic — of or relating to venography
  • videography — the art or process of making films with a video camera.
  • voivodeship — the area which is governed by a voivode
  • welsh poppy — a poppy, Meconopsis cambrica, of western Europe, having pale-green, slightly hairy foliage and pale-yellow flowers.
  • whistlestop — (US, dated) A minor railway station at which a train would stop if requested.
  • whole snipe — the common snipe. See under snipe (def 1).
  • whoop-de-do — lively and noisy festivities; merrymaking: New Year's Eve whoop-de-do.
  • witherspoon — John, 1723–94, U.S. theologian and statesman, born in Scotland.
  • wood hoopoe — any of several tropical, African birds of the family Phoeniculidae, having metallic, blackish plumage and slender, curved bills.
  • woodchipper — a motor-driven machine that cuts wood into chips.
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