10-letter words containing h, p, m
- homophones — Phonetics. a word pronounced the same as another but differing in meaning, whether spelled the same way or not, as heir and air.
- homophonic — having the same sound.
- homophoric — Relating to homophora.
- homopteran — homopterous.
- homosphere — The lower part of the atmosphere, up to about sixty miles, in which there is no great change in its composition.
- honor camp — a prison work camp operating on an honor system.
- humble pie — humility forced upon someone, often under embarrassing conditions; humiliation.
- hump bluey — to carry one's bundle; tramp
- humpbacked — having a hump on the back.
- hyaloplasm — ground substance.
- hypanthium — a cup-shaped or tubular body formed by the conjoined sepals, petals, and stamens.
- hyperaemia — an abnormally large amount of blood in any part of the body.
- hypermania — excessive excitement or enthusiasm; craze: The country has a mania for soccer.
- hypermanic — pertaining to or affected by mania.
- hypermedia — hypertext
- hypermeter — a verse or line containing additional syllables after those proper to the meter.
- hypermiler — to improve fuel mileage in a motor vehicle, as by adopting certain driving techniques or making design alterations to the vehicle.
- hypernymic — Of or pertaining to hypernyms.
- hyperosmia — an abnormally acute sense of smell.
- hyperosmic — Of, pertaining to, or affected by hyperosmia.
- hypnodrama — the acting out of a traumatic experience, under hypnosis, by a person undergoing psychotherapy.
- hypocorism — a pet name.
- hypodermal — Zoology. an underlayer of epithelial cells in arthropods and certain other invertebrates that secretes substances for the overlying cuticle or exoskeleton.
- hypodermic — characterized by the introduction of medicine or drugs under the skin: hypodermic injection.
- hypodermis — Zoology. an underlayer of epithelial cells in arthropods and certain other invertebrates that secretes substances for the overlying cuticle or exoskeleton.
- hypolimnia — Plural form of hypolimnion.
- hypometria — Dysmetria in which the patient tends to undershoot the intended target.
- hypometric — Smaller than normally measured.
- hypomnesia — Deficiency of the memory.
- hypomotile — Less than usually motile.
- hyponymous — a term that denotes a subcategory of a more general class: “Chair” and “table” are hyponyms of “furniture.”. Compare superordinate (def 4).
- hypoptilum — (ornithology) An aftershaft.
- hyporchema — a lively choral ode sung in ancient Greece in honor of Apollo or Dionysus.
- hypothymia — a state of depression
- hypoxaemia — Alternative spelling of hypoxemia.
- hypoxaemic — Alternative form of hypoxemic.
- hypozeugma — the use of a succession of subjects with a single predicate.
- hypsometer — thermobarometer (def 1).
- hypsometry — vertical control in mapping; the establishment of elevations or altitudes.
- impeaching — Present participle of impeach.
- impishness — The state or quality of being impish; mischievousness.
- imposthume — (obsolete) an abscess.
- impoverish — to reduce to poverty: a country impoverished by war.
- isomorphic — Biology. different in ancestry, but having the same form or appearance.
- jamshedpur — a city in SE Jharkhand, in NE India.
- jump-shift — a jump bid in a suit different from the suit just bid by one's partner.
- kampuchean — People's Republic of, a former official name of Cambodia.
- karyolymph — The liquid part of the nucleus of a cell.
- kymographs — Plural form of kymograph.
- kymography — The use of a kymograph.