11-letter words containing h, y, p, o
- filmography — a collection of writings about motion pictures, especially detailed essays dealing with specific films.
- flexography — a relief printing technique similar to letterpress that employs rubber or soft plastic plates, a simple inking system, and fast-drying inks.
- gametophyte — the sexual form of a plant in the alternation of generations.
- gastropathy — (pathology) Any disease of the stomach.
- gastrosophy — the science or art of good eating
- geophysical — the branch of geology that deals with the physics of the earth and its atmosphere, including oceanography, seismology, volcanology, and geomagnetism.
- glyptograph — an engraved or carved design, as on a gem.
- glyptotheca — a space devoted to sculpture
- gnetophytes — Plural form of gnetophyte.
- gopherberry — bush huckleberry.
- gymnophobia — An inordinate fear or hatred of being naked, and possibly nudity or nudists and naturists.
- gynecopathy — any disease occurring only in women.
- haemoptysis — (British spelling) alternative spelling of hemoptysis.
- hagiography — the writing and critical study of the lives of the saints; hagiology.
- handyperson — a person who is practiced at doing maintenance work.
- haplography — the accidental omission of a letter or letter group that should be repeated in writing, as in Missippi for Mississippi.
- heliography — The scientific study of the sun.
- heliophytes — a plant that grows best in full sunlight.
- hell to pay — serious consequences, as of a foolish action
- hematophagy — The practice, of some animals, of feeding on blood.
- hematophyte — a microorganism, as a bacterium, that lives in the blood.
- hemotherapy — therapy by means of blood, serum, or plasma transfusion.
- hepatectomy — excision of part of the liver.
- hepatocytes — Plural form of hepatocyte.
- hepatoscopy — medical examination of the liver.
- heptagynous — (of a flower) having seven pistils
- herpetology — the branch of zoology dealing with reptiles and amphibians.
- heterocarpy — the production of more than one kind of fruit in one plant.
- heterophemy — The use of one word or phrase when another is meant.
- heterophony — the simultaneous performance of the same melodic line, with slight individual variations, by two or more performers.
- heterophyte — a plant that secures its nutrition directly or indirectly from other organisms; a parasite or saprophyte.
- heterospory — the production of both microspores and megaspores.
- heterotypic — of or relating to the first or reductional division in meiosis.
- hexyl group — any of five univalent, isomeric groups having the formula C 6 H 13 −.
- hieroglyphs — Plural form of hieroglyph.
- hierography — a treatise on religion or sacred things
- hippety-hop — with a hopping movement
- histography — a treatise on or description of organic tissues.
- histotrophy — A form of matrotrophy exhibited by some live-bearing sharks and rays, in which the developing embryo receives additional nutrition from its mother in the form of uterine secretions called histotroph.
- hokey-pokey — hocus-pocus; trickery.
- holiday pay — the salary a worker receives for days taken off work
- holiday rep — A holiday rep is someone employed by a holiday company to help look after people when they are on holiday.
- holophytism — the property of being holophytic
- holy spirit — the spirit of God.
- homeomorphy — the occurrence of two fossil species that appear to be similar although they are unrelated, happening as a result of convergent evolution
- homoeopathy — Alternative spelling of homeopathy.
- homophylies — Plural form of homophyly.
- homopolymer — a polymer consisting of a single species of monomer, as polyadenylic acid or polyglutamic acid.
- homotypical — (biology) homotypal.
- honey plant — any of various plants that are particularly useful in providing bees with nectar