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10-letter words containing h, p, m

  • speed hump — bump in road that slows traffic
  • speleothem — a natural structure within a cave
  • sphenogram — a cuneiform character.
  • splash dam — a flood dam built to contain water that is released for driving logs.
  • staphyloma — a condition in which the sclera or cornea of the eye projects outwards due to inflammation
  • stepmother — the wife of one's father by a later marriage.
  • sulphonium — the hypothetical univalent radical -SH3
  • superhuman — above or beyond what is human; having a higher nature or greater powers than humans have: a superhuman being.
  • supermacho — extremely macho
  • sympathies — harmony of or agreement in feeling, as between persons or on the part of one person with respect to another.
  • sympathise — to be in sympathy or agreement of feeling; share in a feeling (often followed by with).
  • sympathize — to be in sympathy or agreement of feeling; share in a feeling (often followed by with).
  • symphilism — a type of sociable symbiosis by which an insect is a nourished guest of an ant or termite colony
  • symphilous — of or relating to symphilism
  • symphonion — a 19th-century mechanical music player
  • symphonist — a composer who writes symphonies.
  • symphonize — to play or sound together harmoniously.
  • symphysial — of, relating to, or noting a symphysis.
  • telpherman — someone who operates or works on a telpher
  • the pamirs — a mountainous area of central Asia, mainly in Tajikistan and partly in Kyrgyzstan, extending into China and Afghanistan: consists of a complex of high ranges, from which the Tian Shan projects to the north, the Kunlun and Karakoram to the east, and the Hindu Kush to the west; Ismoil Somoni (formerly Communism Peak) is situated in the Tajik Pamirs. Highest peak: Kongur Shan, 7719 m (25 326 ft)
  • the pampas — vast plain of S South America, extending from the Atlantic across central Argentina to the Andes
  • theme park — an amusement park in which landscaping, buildings, and attractions are based on one or more specific themes, as jungle wildlife, fairy tales, or the Old West.
  • thermopile — a device consisting of a number of thermocouples joined in series, used for generating thermoelectric current or for detecting and measuring radiant energy, as from a star.
  • thumbpiece — a lever over the hinge on the lid of a tankard, pressed by the thumb to raise the lid.
  • thumbprint — a mark or impression of the ventral surface of the last joint of the thumb.
  • tomography — a machine for making an x-ray of a selected plane of the body.
  • top-hamper — the light upper sails and their gear and spars, sometimes used to refer to all spars and gear above the deck.
  • triphammer — Machinery. a heavy hammer raised and then let fall by means of some tripping device, as a cam.
  • triumphant — having achieved victory or success; victorious; successful.
  • triumphery — a triumvir
  • trophosome — an organ in deep-sea tube worms that is colonized by bacteria supplying the host worm with food and energy.
  • unemphatic — uttered, or to be uttered, with emphasis; strongly expressive.
  • unhampered — to hold back; hinder; impede: A steady rain hampered the progress of the work.
  • unsympathy — lack of sympathy
  • upsmanship — one-upmanship.
  • whimpering — Present participle of whimper.
  • whip-smart — extremely clever
  • white damp — a poisonous coal-mine gas composed chiefly of carbon monoxide.
  • wood nymph — (especially in legend) a nymph of the woods; dryad.
  • xenomorphs — Plural form of xenomorph.
  • yesmanship — An atmosphere in which people claim to agree with leadership for political reasons, even when they don't actually agree with leadership.
  • zoomorphic — of or relating to a deity or other being conceived of as having the form of an animal.
  • zoophilism — An affection for non-human animals.
  • zygomorphy — The quality of being zygomorphic.
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