8-letter words containing h, o, p
- dopehead — a drug addict.
- dramshop — bar; barroom; saloon.
- drophead — (British) Shortened form of 'drophead coupé'.
- dropship — (science fiction, gaming) A flying transport that drops troops onto the battlefield.
- earphone — a sound receiver that fits in or over the ear, as of a radio or telephone.
- ecomorph — A local variety of a species whose appearance is determined by its ecological environment.
- enophile — A lover or appreciator of wine, see oenophile.
- eohippus — Extinct early Eocene mammal, Hyracotherium leporinum.
- ephorate — The office of an ephor; ephors collectively.
- epiphora — Excessive watering of the eye.
- ethephon — a synthetic plant-growth regulator
- ethiopia — country in East Africa
- ethiopic — the ancient language of Ethiopia, belonging to the Semitic subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic family: a Christian liturgical language
- euphobia — Fear of hearing good news.
- euphonic — Characterized by euphony; harmonious.
- euphoria — A feeling or state of intense excitement and happiness.
- euphoric — Characterized by or feeling intense excitement and happiness.
- euphotic — Describing that part of the near-surface ocean in which photosynthesis is possible.
- eutrophy — (medicine) healthy nutrition.
- exophagy — the practice of cannibalism outside of the tribe or family
- exophora — Reference in a text or utterance to something external to it, which is only fully intelligible in terms of information about the extralinguistic situation.
- fishpole — A fishing pole.
- fishpond — a small pond containing fish, often one in which edible fish are raised for commercial purposes, as for stocking lakes and streams or wholesaling.
- fleshpot — fleshpots. places offering luxurious and unrestrained pleasure or amusement: the fleshpots of Las Vegas. luxurious and unrestrained living.
- footpath — a path for people going on foot.
- foreship — the prow or forepart of a ship
- gazpacho — a soup made of chopped tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, garlic, oil, and vinegar, and served cold.
- geoglyph — A large-scale drawing made on the ground by scratching or arranging lines of stones etc.
- geophagy — the practice of eating earthy matter, especially clay or chalk, as in famine-stricken areas.
- geophone — a device that is placed on or in the ground and used to detect seismic waves.
- geophyte — a plant propagated by means of underground buds.
- giftshop — a shop that sells items that are suitable for giving as presents
- god help — You use God help you to warn someone that something unpleasant will happen to them if they do a particular thing.
- grogshop — a saloon or barroom, especially a cheap one.
- gryphons — Plural form of gryphon.
- gumphion — a funeral banner
- haiphong — a seaport in N Vietnam, near the Gulf of Tonkin.
- halophil — Halobacterium.
- hamerkop — Alternative spelling of hammerkop.
- hanepoot — a variety of muscat grape used as a dessert fruit and in making wine
- haploidy — (genetics) The state of being haploid.
- haplopia — normal vision (opposed to diplopia).
- haplosis — the production of haploid chromosome groups during meiosis.
- happoshu — a Japanese drink, similar to beer
- hapteron — a structure by which a fungus, aquatic plant, or algae colony attaches to an object; a holdfast.
- hard bop — an aggressive, driving, hot style of modern jazz developed by East Coast musicians in the late 1950s as a rejection of the more relaxed, cool style of West Coast jazz. Compare bop1 , cool jazz, modern jazz, progressive jazz.
- hard top — A hard top is a vehicle that has a permanent rigid roof.
- hardcopy — copy, as computer output printed on paper, that can be read without using a special device (opposed to soft copy).
- hardtops — Plural form of hardtop.
- harpagon — (obsolete) a grappling hook.