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11-letter words containing o, h, p

  • hypsophobia — an extreme or abnormal fear of heights
  • ichnography — the art of drawing a ground plan or layout of a building.
  • ichthyopsid — relating to the class Ichthyopsida, which contains amphibians, fishes, and fish-like vertebrates
  • iconography — symbolic representation, especially the conventional meanings attached to an image or images.
  • iconophiles — a connoisseur of icons or images.
  • ideographic — an ideogram.
  • idiographic — pertaining to or involving the study or explication of individual cases or events (opposed to nomothetic).
  • idiomorphic — Also, euhedral. (in a rock) noting or pertaining to a mineral constituent having its own characteristic outward crystalline form unaltered by the other constituents of the rock; automorphic.
  • in the loop — a portion of a cord, ribbon, etc., folded or doubled upon itself so as to leave an opening between the parts.
  • in the open — outdoors
  • in the soup — a liquid food made by boiling or simmering meat, fish, or vegetables with various added ingredients.
  • infographic — Often, infographics. a visual presentation of information in the form of a chart, graph, or other image accompanied by minimal text, intended to give an easily understood overview, often of a complex subject: a mass-transit infographic that uses different colors to represent different modes of transportation.
  • ionospheric — Of or pertaining to the ionosphere.
  • isocephalic — (of a composition) having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
  • isodiaphere — one of two or more nuclides in which the difference between the number of neutrons and the number of protons is the same
  • isomorphism — the state or property of being isomorphous or isomorphic.
  • isomorphous — (of a compound or mineral) capable of crystallizing in a form similar to that of another compound or mineral, used especially of substances so closely related that they form end members of a series of solid solutions.
  • isophthalic — Of or pertaining to isophthalic acid and its derivatives.
  • janitorship — the office of janitor
  • jehoshaphat — a king of Judah, son of Asa, who reigned in the 9th century b.c. I Kings 22:41–50.
  • john paul i — (Albino Luciani) 1912–78, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1978.
  • john scopesJohn Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
  • joseph raffJoseph Joachim, 1822–82, Swiss composer.
  • josephinite — a mineral alloy of nickel and iron
  • judeophobia — Alternative case form of Judeophobia.
  • karate chop — a sharp blow used in karate, usually delivered by a slanting stroke with the side of the hand.
  • karate-chop — a sharp blow used in karate, usually delivered by a slanting stroke with the side of the hand.
  • keep kosher — to observe the Jewish dietary laws
  • keeper hook — an S -shaped hook for securing doors, windows, etc., or for fastening a batten to a flat.
  • keogh plans — a pension plan for an unincorporated business entity or self-employed person.
  • keratophyre — a fine-grained soda trachyte
  • kinetograph — a camera for taking pictures for a kinetoscope.
  • kohl pencil — a thin cylindrical cosmetic instrument used to darken the area around the eyes
  • kymographic — Of or pertaining to a kymograph.
  • lagomorphic — Shaped like a hare.
  • lamprophony — loudness and clarity of voice.
  • lamprophyre — any dark intrusive rock in which dark minerals occur both as phenocrysts and as groundmass.
  • lappet moth — a large purple-brown hairy eggar moth, Gastropacha quercifolia, whose grey furry caterpillars have lappets on each flank
  • leaf-hopper — any of numerous leaping, homopterous insects of the family Cicadellidae that suck plant juices, many being serious crop pests.
  • leafhoppers — Plural form of leafhopper.
  • leper house — a hospital for lepers; leprosarium.
  • levorphanol — a potent synthetic narcotic analgesic, C 21 H 29 NO 7 , as the tartrate, used in the treatment of moderate to severe pain.
  • light opera — operetta.
  • lipoatrophy — (medicine) The loss of subcutaneous fatty tissue.
  • lithographs — Plural form of lithograph.
  • lithography — the art or process of producing a picture, writing, or the like, on a flat, specially prepared stone, with some greasy or oily substance, and of taking ink impressions from this as in ordinary printing.
  • litholapaxy — the procedure of removing bladder stones by crushing them and extracting them through a catheter
  • lithopedion — (medical) A calcium-encased foetus that occurs in ectopic abdominal pregnancies when the foetus dies and is not reabsorbed by the maternal body, whereby the maternal system encases the foreign body (foetus) in calcium to isolate it.
  • lithophytes — Plural form of lithophyte.
  • lithosphere — the solid portion of the earth (distinguished from atmosphere, hydrosphere).
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