10-letter words containing h, p, i
- hair spray — a liquid in an aerosol or other spray container, for holding the hair in place.
- hairpieces — Plural form of hairpiece.
- hairspring — a fine, usually spiral, spring used for oscillating the balance of a timepiece.
- half snipe — jacksnipe (def 1).
- half-price — at a 50% reduction in cost
- halophiles — Plural form of halophile.
- halophilic — any organism, as certain halobacteria and marine bacteria, that requires a salt-rich environment for its growth and survival.
- halophytic — Growing well under salty conditions.
- hand-piece — handheld, power-operated shears used by a shearer
- hand-spike — a bar used as a lever.
- handpicked — Picked by hand; picked or selected with care.
- handpieces — Plural form of handpiece.
- handprints — Plural form of handprint.
- handspikes — Plural form of handspike.
- handspring — an acrobatic feat in which one starts from a standing position and wheels the body forward or backward in a complete circle, landing first on the hands and then on the feet, without contact by the rest of the body.
- hang it up — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- haplobiont — an organism, esp a plant, that exists in either the diploid form or the haploid form (but never alternates between these forms) during its life cycle
- happenings — something that happens; occurrence; event.
- happi coat — a Japanese lounging jacket with wide, loose sleeves and often an overlapping front closure usually tied with a sash.
- haptically — By means of touch.
- harelipped — Usually Offensive. cleft lip.
- harpooning — Present participle of harpoon.
- harpsicord — Dated form of harpsichord.
- haruspices — Plural form of haruspex.
- hawsepipes — Plural form of hawsepipe.
- headpieces — Plural form of headpiece.
- headspring — the fountainhead or source of a stream.
- headstripe — A stripe of colored feathers on the head of a bird.
- hectorship — the quality or character of a hector
- heelpieces — Plural form of heelpiece.
- helicopter — any of a class of heavier-than-air craft that are lifted and sustained in the air horizontally by rotating wings or blades turning on vertical axes through power supplied by an engine.
- heliograph — a device for signaling by means of a movable mirror that reflects beams of light, especially sunlight, to a distance.
- heliopause — the boundary of the heliosphere.
- heliophile — Any organism that is attracted to large amounts of sunlight.
- heliophyte — a plant that grows best in full sunlight.
- heliopolis — Biblical name On. an ancient ruined city in N Egypt, on the Nile delta.
- helioscope — a telescope for viewing the sun, adapted to protect the eye of the viewer from the sun's glare.
- heliotrope — any hairy plant belonging to the genus Heliotropium, of the borage family, as H. arborescens, cultivated for its small, fragrant purple flowers.
- heliotropy — the growth of plants in a particular direction as a response to the stimulus of light, heliotropism
- hemianopia — any of several conditions in which there is blindness in half of the visual field, involving one or both eyes.
- hemianopic — having or relating to hemianopia
- hemiplegia — paralysis of one side of the body.
- hemiplegic — paralysis of one side of the body.
- hemipteral — of or relating to a hemipterous insect
- hemipteran — hemipterous.
- hemipteron — Alternative form of hemipteran.
- hemisphere — (often initial capital letter) half of the terrestrial globe or celestial sphere, especially one of the halves into which the earth is divided. Compare Eastern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere, Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere.
- hemitropal — hemitropous
- hemophilia — any of several X-linked genetic disorders, symptomatic chiefly in males, in which excessive bleeding occurs owing to the absence or abnormality of a clotting factor in the blood.
- hemophilic — characteristic of or affected by hemophilia.