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9-letter words containing h, o, p, n

  • cymophane — a yellow or green opalescent variety of chrysoberyl
  • cynophile — A person who loves canines; a dog lover.
  • cynophobe — A person with cynophobia.
  • cyphonism — An ancient form of punishment involving a sort of wooden pillory by which the victim's neck was bent or weighed downward.
  • diaphones — Plural form of diaphone.
  • diaphonic — Of or pertaining to diaphony.
  • diphthong — Phonetics. an unsegmentable, gliding speech sound varying continuously in phonetic quality but held to be a single sound or phoneme and identified by its apparent beginning and ending sound, as the oi- sound of toy or boil.
  • dolphinet — a female dolphin
  • donorship — a person who gives or donates.
  • dynorphin — (biochemistry) Any of a class of opioid peptides that arise from the precursor protein prodynorphin.
  • dysphonia — any disturbance of normal vocal function.
  • dysphonic — any disturbance of normal vocal function.
  • earphones — (countable) Plural form of earphone.
  • ecphoneme — (obsolete) A symbol, !, comprising a vertical line and a dot below, signifying the end of a sentence that is an exclamation.
  • endolymph — The fluid in the membranous labyrinth of the ear.
  • endomorph — A person with a soft round body build and a high proportion of fat tissue.
  • endophagy — cannibalism within the same group or tribe
  • endophyte — A plant, especially a fungus, that lives inside another plant.
  • endorphin — Any of a group of hormones secreted within the brain and nervous system and having a number of physiological functions. They are peptides that activate the body’s opiate receptors, causing an analgesic effect.
  • entophyte — endophyte
  • ephemeron — An insect that lives only for a day or a few days.
  • ethiopian — person from Ethiopia
  • euphonies — Plural form of euphony.
  • euphonism — the use of pleasant-sounding words or phrases
  • euphonium — A valved brass musical instrument resembling a small tuba of tenor pitch, played mainly in military and brass bands.
  • euphonize — (transitive) To make euphonic.
  • euphonous — Alternative form of euphonious.
  • fish pond — small lake for keeping fish
  • fishponds — Plural form of fishpond.
  • fishpound — a submerged net used in commercial fishing for capturing fish.
  • genophobe — A person who has a psychological fear of sexual relations or sexual intercourse.
  • geophones — Plural form of geophone.
  • godolphinSidney, 1st Earl of, 1645–1712, English statesman and financier.
  • 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.
  • gynophobe — a person who hates or fears women
  • gynophore — the elongated stalk of a pistil.
  • haanepoot — a type of white wine made from the Hanepoot grape
  • half-open — (of a file) having a pawn or pawns of only one colour on it
  • handphone — A cordless or cellular phone.
  • haplontic — (chiefly of an alga or other lower plant) having a life cycle in which the main form is haploid, with a diploid zygote being formed only briefly.
  • happen on — to take place; come to pass; occur: Something interesting is always happening in New York.
  • happen to — chance to
  • happen-so — chance; happenstance; accident: Meeting you today was pure happen-so.
  • haptonema — In haptophytes, a peg-like organelle attached near the flagella and unique to the group. May function in attachment, feeding, or avoidance responses.
  • hard porn — hard-core pornography.
  • 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.
  • headphone — Audio. a headset designed for use with a stereo system.
  • heptagons — Plural form of heptagon.
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