11-letter words containing o, p, e, r, a
- grade point — Education. a numerical equivalent to a received letter grade, usually 0 for F, 1 for D, 2 for C, 3 for B, and 4 for A, that is multiplied by the number of credits for the course: used to compute a grade point average.
- graded post — a position in a school having special responsibility for which additional payment is given
- gramophones — Plural form of gramophone.
- grand opera — a serious, usually tragic, opera in which most of the text is set to music.
- graphophone — a phonograph for recording and reproducing sounds on wax records.
- graptolites — Plural form of graptolite.
- grasshopper — any of numerous herbivorous, orthopterous insects, especially of the families Acrididae and Tettigoniidae, having the hind legs adapted for leaping and having chewing mouth parts, some species being highly destructive to vegetation. Compare locust (def 1), long-horned grasshopper.
- greaseproof — Resistant to grease.
- greasy pole — a pole covered with grease to make it slippery and difficult to climb, often used as entertainment
- great power — a nation that has exceptional military and economic strength, and consequently plays a major, often decisive, role in international affairs.
- hall porter — concierge
- haloperidol — a major antipsychotic agent, C 21 H 23 ClFNO 2 , used in the management of schizophrenia, severe anxiety, and other behavioral disorders.
- hammer pond — an artificial pond for maintaining a head of water at a water mill.
- handyperson — a person who is practiced at doing maintenance work.
- helicograph — an instrument for drawing helices.
- heliographs — Plural form of heliograph.
- heliography — The scientific study of the sun.
- 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.
- hemotherapy — therapy by means of blood, serum, or plasma transfusion.
- heptahedron — a solid figure having seven faces.
- heptamerous — consisting of or divided into seven parts.
- heptandrous — (of a flower) having seven stamens
- heterocarpy — the production of more than one kind of fruit in one plant.
- heteroplasm — (pathology) Tissue growing in a part of the body where it does not normally occur.
- heteropolar — polar (def 4).
- heterotopia — misplacement or displacement, as of an organ.
- hierography — a treatise on religion or sacred things
- hierophants — Plural form of hierophant.
- hierophobia — an irrational fear of sacred objects or people
- hippocrates — ("Father of Medicine") c460–c377 b.c, Greek physician.
- holiday rep — A holiday rep is someone employed by a holiday company to help look after people when they are on holiday.
- holographed — to make by the use of holography.
- holographer — One who creates holograms.
- holophrases — a word functioning as a phrase or sentence, as the imperative Go!
- homopterans — Plural form of homopteran.
- hoppergrass — grasshopper (def 1).
- horn-spread — (of a horned creature) the distance between the outermost tips of the horns.
- horographer — a person who reckons time
- horripilate — to produce horripilation on.
- horse opera — a television or radio program or motion picture about the Wild West, often presented serially and usually dealing with adventures of cowboys, gunmen, gold prospectors, etc. Compare Western (def 8).
- horseplayer — a habitual bettor on horse races.
- hospitaller — a member of the religious and military order (Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
- house party — the guests at such an affair or party: The house party goes sailing today.
- houseparent — one of a married couple responsible for a group of young people, as students, living in a dormitory, hostel, etc., sometimes acting solely as an advisor, but often serving as host or hostess, chaperon, housekeeper, etc.
- hydroplaned — Simple past tense and past participle of hydroplane.
- hydroplaner — a person who pilots a hydroplane, especially a professional speedboat racer.
- hydroplanes — Plural form of hydroplane.
- hyetography — the study of the annual and geographical distribution of rainfall.
- hymenoptera — hymenopteran.