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10-letter words containing o, p, e, n, h, a

  • hemianopic — having or relating to hemianopia
  • heptagonal — having seven sides or angles.
  • heptameron — A literary work whose action covers a period of seven days.
  • heptathlon — an athletic contest for women comprising seven different track-and-field events and won by the contestant amassing the highest total score.
  • heptatonic — (of a musical scale) comprising seven notes
  • hierophant — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
  • hierophany — A physical manifestation of the holy or sacred, serving as a spiritual eidolon for emulation or worship.
  • hippomanes — (formerly) a substance found on the forehead of a newborn foal or obtained from a mare in foal, thought to act as an aphrodisiac
  • hog peanut — a twining plant, Amphicarpaea bracteata, of the legume family, bearing pods that ripen in or on the ground.
  • homopteran — homopterous.
  • hoop snake — any of several harmless snakes, as the mud snake and rainbow snake, fabled to take its tail in its mouth and roll along like a hoop.
  • hop garden — a field of hops
  • houseplant — an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.
  • hyalophane — a variety of orthoclase in which some of the potassium is replaced by barium.
  • hydrophane — a partly translucent variety of opal, which becomes more translucent or transparent when immersed in water.
  • hydroplane — a seaplane.
  • hygiaphone — a glass screen through which an employee may speak to members of the public, eg at a ticket office
  • hypaethron — a part of a building or court which is open to the sky
  • hyperbaton — the use, especially for emphasis, of a word order other than the expected or usual one, as in “Bird thou never wert.”.
  • hypernovae — Plural form of hypernova.
  • hyperpnoea — abnormally deep or rapid respiration.
  • hypertonia — increased rigidity, tension, and spasticity of the muscles.
  • hyphenator — One who, or that which, hyphenates.
  • hypnopedia — sleep learning.
  • hypoadenia — a deficiency of glandular activity.
  • hypomnesia — Deficiency of the memory.
  • hypothenar — the fleshly prominence on the palm at the base of the little finger.
  • kenophobia — an abnormal fear of empty spaces
  • keogh plan — a pension plan for an unincorporated business entity or self-employed person.
  • lagerphone — (Australia) A generally homemade percussion instrument consisting of crown cap beer bottle tops loosely nailed to a pole (often a broom handle) and a board mounted cross-ways on the pole (the head of the broom), and played by striking the pole on the ground or with a stick, by drawing the serrated stick across the pole, or by shaking the instrument. (From 1952.).
  • lithophane — a transparency made of thin porcelain or bone china having an intaglio design.
  • macphersonJames, 1736–96, Scottish author and translator.
  • megaphoned — Simple past tense and past participle of megaphone.
  • megaphones — Plural form of megaphone.
  • megaphonic — Of, or pertaining to, a megaphone.
  • menophania — menarche.
  • nalorphine — a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 1 9 H 2 1 NO 3 , used to nullify respiratory depression due to narcotics and for the diagnosis of addiction to narcotics.
  • nanosphere — A nanoscale sphere.
  • nautophone — an electrically operated horn for giving fog warnings.
  • necrophage — An organism that eats dead or decaying flesh.
  • necrophagy — The eating of dead or decaying animal flesh.
  • nephograph — an instrument for photographing clouds
  • neuropathy — any diseased condition of the nervous system.
  • north cape — a point of land on an island at the N tip of Norway: the northernmost point of Europe.
  • not a hope — used ironically to express little confidence that expectations will be fulfilled
  • oenophilia — a person who enjoys wines, usually as a connoisseur.
  • oenophobia — The fear of wine; anxiety related to wine.
  • on the pad — a cushionlike mass of soft material used for comfort, protection, or stuffing.
  • open chain — a series of atoms linked in a chain not joined together at its ends, and so represented in its structural formula.
  • open flash — a photographic technique employing a flash fired while the camera shutter is held open.
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