8-letter words containing h, o, p, e
- hop pole — a pole, usually wooden, up which hop vines are trained
- hopefull — Archaic form of hopeful.
- hopefuls — Plural form of hopeful.
- hopeless — providing no hope; beyond optimism or hope; desperate: a hopeless case of cancer.
- hopewell — a city in E Virginia, on the James River.
- hopfield — a field in which hops are grown
- hopheads — (slang) Plural form of hophead.
- hoplites — Plural form of hoplite.
- hornpipe — an English folk clarinet having one ox horn concealing the reed and another forming the bell.
- horopter — a projection of the points in the visual field corresponding to the aggregate of points registering on the two retinas.
- horsepox — a disease in horses caused by a virus and characterized by eruptions in the mouth and on the skin.
- hosepipe — (UK, South Africa, Southern US) A flexible pipe for carrying water or other liquids; a garden hose.
- hospices — Plural form of hospice.
- hotplate — a portable appliance for cooking, formerly heated by a gas burner placed underneath it, now heated chiefly by an electrical unit in the appliance.
- housepet — A domestic pet, one that lives mostly indoors.
- housetop — the top or roof of a house.
- hypergol — any hypergolic agent.
- hyperion — Classical Mythology. a Titan, the father of Helios, Selene, and Eos.
- hyperons — Plural form of hyperon.
- hyperope — A farsighted person, a hyperopic person, a person with hyperopia.
- hypnoses — the ancient Greek god of sleep.
- hypnotee — a person being hypnotized
- hypobole — the act of anticipating objection for the purpose of refutation
- hypoderm — Zoology. an underlayer of epithelial cells in arthropods and certain other invertebrates that secretes substances for the overlying cuticle or exoskeleton.
- hypogeal — underground; subterranean.
- hypogean — Existing or growing underground.
- hypogene — formed beneath the earth's surface, as granite (opposed to epigene).
- hypogeum — Ancient Architecture. the underground part of a building, as a vault.
- hypopnea — abnormally shallow and slow breathing.
- hypothec — Roman and Civil Law. a mortgage or security held by a creditor on the property of a debtor without possession of it, created either by agreement or by operation of law.
- isohypse — (meteorology) A line on a map connecting points of equal height of a given pressure level.
- isophane — (uncountable, medicine) A synthetic form of insulin used to treat diabetes.
- isophone — an isogloss marking off an area in which a particular feature of pronunciation is found
- isophote — a line on a diagram or image of a galaxy, nebula, or other celestial object joining points of equal surface brightness
- isopleth — a line drawn on a map through all points having the same numerical value, as of a population figure or geographic measurement.
- joseph i — 1678–1711, king of Hungary 1687–1711; king of Germany 1690–1711; emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1705–11 (son of Leopold I).
- josephus — Flavius [fley-vee-uh s] /ˈfleɪ vi əs/ (Show IPA), (Joseph ben Matthias) a.d. 37?–c100, Jewish historian and general.
- kephalos — Cephalus.
- logperch — a darter, Percina caprodes, of eastern North American lakes and streams, having a piglike snout.
- loophole — a small or narrow opening, as in a wall, for looking through, for admitting light and air, or, particularly in a fortification, for the discharge of missiles against an enemy outside.
- loveship — The act of falling in or making love; courtship.
- mephisto — Medieval Demonology. one of the seven chief devils and the tempter of Faust.
- metaphor — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- morpheme — any of the minimal grammatical units of a language, each constituting a word or meaningful part of a word, that cannot be divided into smaller independent grammatical parts, as the, write, or the -ed of waited. Compare allomorph (def 2), morph (def 1).
- morpheus — Classical Mythology. a son of Hypnos and the god of dreams.
- morphine — a white, bitter, crystalline alkaloid, C 1 7 H 1 9 NO 3 ⋅H 2 O, the most important narcotic and addictive principle of opium, obtained by extraction and crystallization and used chiefly in medicine as a pain reliever and sedative.
- neohippy — A new age hippy.
- neomorph — (genetics) a gain of function mutation that causes novel gene function.
- neophobe — One who dislikes new or novel things.
- neophyte — a beginner or novice: He's a neophyte at chess.