8-letter words containing h, p
- dishpans — Plural form of dishpan.
- dispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- dogeship — the chief magistrate in the former republics of Venice and Genoa.
- dogpatch — a poor rural community in the U.S., especially in the South, whose inhabitants are unsophisticated and have little education: He acts like he's been raised in a Dogpatch.
- dolphins — Plural form of dolphin.
- dopehead — a drug addict.
- dpsather — Data-parallel Sather. deterministic fine-grained parallelism. E-mail: <[email protected]>. ftp://lynx.csis.dit.csiro.au/p/pub/ather/dpsather.papers.
- dramshop — bar; barroom; saloon.
- drophead — (British) Shortened form of 'drophead coupé'.
- dropship — (science fiction, gaming) A flying transport that drops troops onto the battlefield.
- dry-hump — to engage in non-penetrative sexual activity
- dukeship — the position or status of a duke
- dungheap — pile of dung
- dustheap — a heap or pile of rubbish, refuse, or the like.
- dyspathy — antipathy.
- earlship — earldom (def 1).
- earphone — a sound receiver that fits in or over the ear, as of a radio or telephone.
- earth up — to cover (part of a plant, esp the stem) with soil in order to protect from frost, light, etc
- earthpea — the peanut.
- echappee — a melodic ornamental tone following a principal tone by a step above or below and proceeding by a skip.
- ecomorph — A local variety of a species whose appearance is determined by its ecological environment.
- elaphine — relating to or resembling a red deer
- elephant — A heavy plant-eating mammal with a prehensile trunk, long curved ivory tusks, and large ears, native to Africa and southern Asia. It is the largest living land animal.
- empathic — Showing or expressing empathy.
- emperish — to damage or harm
- emphases — Plural form of emphasis.
- emphasis — Special importance, value, or prominence given to something.
- emphatic — Showing or giving emphasis; expressing something forcibly and clearly.
- encipher — Convert (a message or piece of text) into a coded form ; encrypt.
- enophile — A lover or appreciator of wine, see oenophile.
- ensphere — (transitive) To place in a sphere; to envelop.
- enthalpy — A thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the total heat content of a system. It is equal to the internal energy of the system plus the product of pressure and volume.
- eohippus — Extinct early Eocene mammal, Hyracotherium leporinum.
- ephemera — Things that exist or are used or enjoyed for only a short time.
- ephesian — of or relating to Ephesus
- ephorate — The office of an ephor; ephors collectively.
- epigraph — An inscription on a building, statue, or coin.
- epiphany — The manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles as represented by the Magi (Matthew 2:1–12).
- epiphora — Excessive watering of the eye.
- epiphyte — A plant that grows on another plant but is not parasitic, such as the numerous ferns, bromeliads, air plants, and orchids growing on tree trunks in tropical rain forests.
- epitaphs — Plural form of epitaph.
- epitheca — (microbiology, planktology) The upper half of the theca of a thecate protist such as a diatom or dinoflagellate.
- epithema — a horny outgrowth on the beaks of birds
- epithets — An adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned.
- ethephon — a synthetic plant-growth regulator
- ethercap — a spider
- 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
- euphenic — of or relating to biological or physical improvement, esp of humans
- euphobia — Fear of hearing good news.