9-letter words containing h, p, m
- diaphragm — Your diaphragm is a muscle between your lungs and your stomach. It is used when you breathe.
- dimorphic — having two forms.
- dryomorph — any member of the extinct genus Dryopithecus.
- dumpishly — in a downhearted and despondent manner
- dysphemia — any impairment in the ability to speak.
- ecphoneme — (obsolete) A symbol, !, comprising a vertical line and a dot below, signifying the end of a sentence that is an exclamation.
- ectomorph — a person of the ectomorphic type.
- empathies — Plural form of empathy.
- empathise — (British) alternative spelling of empathize.
- empathize — Understand and share the feelings of another.
- emphasise — (British) alternative spelling of emphasize.
- emphasize — Give special importance or prominence to (something) in speaking or writing.
- emphatics — Plural form of emphatic.
- emphlysis — the outbreak of blisters on the body
- emphysema — A condition in which the air sacs of the lungs are damaged and enlarged, causing breathlessness.
- 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.
- ephemeral — An ephemeral plant.
- ephemeric — Ephemeral.
- ephemerid — (zoology) Any member of the Ephemeridae.
- ephemeris — A table or data file giving the calculated positions of a celestial object at regular intervals throughout a period.
- ephemeron — An insect that lives only for a day or a few days.
- epiphragm — A dry layer of mucus used by a snail or mollusk to seal itself inside its shell during hibernation.
- epirrhema — the address in Greek comedy
- euphemise — Alternative spelling of euphemize.
- euphemism — A mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.
- euphemist — One who uses euphemisms.
- euphemize — Refer to (something unpleasant or embarrassing) by means of a euphemism.
- 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.
- euphuisms — Plural form of euphuism.
- farm shop — a shop that sells farm produce
- flashlamp — an electric lamp, usually containing xenon or another noble gas, used to produce a brief flash or pulsed flashes of intense light, such as that used in a camera flash
- galumphed — Simple past tense and past participle of galumph.
- galumpher — a person or animal that leaps or moves heavily or clumsily
- gomphoses — an immovable articulation in which one bone or part is received in a cavity in another, as a tooth in its socket.
- gomphosis — an immovable articulation in which one bone or part is received in a cavity in another, as a tooth in its socket.
- graphemes — Plural form of grapheme.
- graphemic — Of or pertaining to graphemes or their study.
- h & c — hot and cold
- halazepam — a derivative of benzodiazepine, C 17 H 12 ClF 3 N 2 O, used for management of anxiety disorders.
- hammerkop — A bird from southern Africa, Scopus umbretta, of the Scopidae family and related to the herons.
- hampering — to hold back; hinder; impede: A steady rain hampered the progress of the work.
- hampshire — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
- hampstead — a former borough of London, England, now part of Camden.
- handstamp — an implement for stamping an impression
- haptonema — In haptophytes, a peg-like organelle attached near the flagella and unique to the group. May function in attachment, feeding, or avoidance responses.
- harrumphs — Plural form of harrumph.
- harumphed — Simple past tense and past participle of harumph.
- hauptmann — Gerhart [ger-hahrt] /ˈgɛr hɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1862–1946, German dramatist, novelist, and poet: Nobel Prize 1912.