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11-letter words containing o, h, p

  • hard porn's — hard-core pornography.
  • harmoniphon — an obsolete musical instrument consisting of a mouth tube and keyboard that acts on reeds which vibrate to give a sound similar to an oboe
  • harpoon gun — a small cannon for shooting harpoons.
  • harpsichord — a keyboard instrument, precursor of the piano, in which the strings are plucked by leather or quill points connected with the keys, in common use from the 16th to the 18th century, and revived in the 20th.
  • heckelphone — A woodwind instrument resembling a large oboe, with a range about an octave lower.
  • hectopascal — An SI unit of pressure and stress equal to 100 pascals.
  • hedgehopped — Simple past tense and past participle of hedgehop.
  • helicograph — an instrument for drawing helices.
  • helicopters — Plural form of helicopter.
  • helicospore — a coiled cylindrical fungal spore.
  • heliographs — Plural form of heliograph.
  • heliography — The scientific study of the sun.
  • heliophobia — Fear of sunlight.
  • heliophobic — fearing or unable to withstand sunlight
  • heliophytes — a plant that grows best in full sunlight.
  • helioscopic — of or relating to observations of the sun
  • heliosphere — the region around the sun over which the effect of the solar wind extends.
  • heliotropes — Plural form of heliotrope.
  • heliotropic — turning or growing toward the light.
  • heliotropin — piperonal.
  • hell to pay — serious consequences, as of a foolish action
  • helmsperson — A helmsman or helmswoman.
  • hematophagy — The practice, of some animals, of feeding on blood.
  • hematophyte — a microorganism, as a bacterium, that lives in the blood.
  • hemeprotein — (protein) Any conjugated protein containing heme as the prosthetic group.
  • hemeralopia — a condition of the eyes in which sight is normal in the night or in a dim light but is abnormally poor or wholly absent in the day or in a bright light.
  • hemeralopic — (medicine) Unable to see clearly in bright light; day-blind; suffering from hemeralopia.
  • hemianopsia — any of several conditions in which there is blindness in half of the visual field, involving one or both eyes.
  • hemianoptic — suffering from hemiopia, blind in half the field of vision
  • hemimorphic — (of a crystal) having the two ends of an axis unlike in their planes or modifications; lacking a center of symmetry.
  • hemipterous — belonging or pertaining to the Hemiptera, an order of insects having forewings that are thickened and leathery at the base and membranous at the apex, comprising the true bugs.
  • hemophiliac — Also, hemophile. a person having hemophilia.
  • hemopoiesis — hematopoiesis.
  • hemopoietic — hematopoiesis.
  • hemoprotein — Alternative spelling of hemeprotein.
  • hemotherapy — therapy by means of blood, serum, or plasma transfusion.
  • hemotrophic — the material from the maternal bloodstream and placenta that nourishes a mammalian embryo.
  • henchperson — a loyal supporter, follower, or subordinate
  • hepatectomy — excision of part of the liver.
  • hepatocytes — Plural form of hepatocyte.
  • hepatoscopy — medical examination of the liver.
  • hepatotoxic — Damaging or destructive to liver cells.
  • hepatotoxin — Any substance that causes hepatotoxicity.
  • heptagynous — (of a flower) having seven pistils
  • heptahedron — a solid figure having seven faces.
  • heptamerous — consisting of or divided into seven parts.
  • heptandrous — (of a flower) having seven stamens
  • heptathlons — Plural form of heptathlon.
  • hermoupolis — a port in Greece, capital of Cyclades department, on the E coast of Syros Island. Pop: (municipality): 13 496 (2001)
  • heroic poem — a poem written in an epic style using lines of iambic pentameter.
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