9-letter words containing o, p, e
- happen-so — chance; happenstance; accident: Meeting you today was pure happen-so.
- haptonema — In haptophytes, a peg-like organelle attached near the flagella and unique to the group. May function in attachment, feeding, or avoidance responses.
- harpooned — Simple past tense and past participle of harpoon.
- harpooner — a barbed, spearlike missile attached to a rope, and thrown by hand or shot from a gun, used for killing and capturing whales and large fish.
- head shop — a shop selling paraphernalia of interest to drug users or associated with the use of drugs.
- headphone — Audio. a headset designed for use with a stereo system.
- heatproof — not affected or damaged by heat, especially when placed in an oven or over a direct flame: heatproof cookware.
- hedgehops — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hedgehop.
- heelposts — Plural form of heelpost.
- heliopsis — a genus of herbaceous flowering plant in the daisy family Asteraceae
- heliotype — A picture obtained by the process of heliotypy.
- helipilot — a helicopter pilot
- heliports — Plural form of heliport.
- helistops — Plural form of helistop.
- helm port — the opening at the stern of a ship, through which a rudderstock passes.
- helophyte — any perennial marsh plant that bears its overwintering buds in the mud below the surface
- hemipodes — Plural form of hemipode.
- hemitrope — twin1 (def 5).
- hemolymph — a fluid in the body cavities and tissues of invertebrates, in arthropods functioning as blood and in some other invertebrates functioning as lymph.
- hemopathy — (medicine) Any disorder or disease of the blood.
- hemophile — a hemophiliac.
- hemotroph — the material from the maternal bloodstream and placenta that nourishes a mammalian embryo.
- hepatomas — Plural form of hepatoma.
- hepatoxic — Exhibiting hepatoxicity.
- heptaglot — a book written in seven languages
- heptagons — Plural form of heptagon.
- heptalogy — (rare) # A set of seven works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as seven individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
- heptanone — any of three isomeric ketones, C 11 H 14 O, derived from heptane.
- heptapody — a verse with seven metrical feet
- herpetoid — reptilian, reptiliform
- heteropod — any marine invertebrate with a foot or feet adapted for swimming
- hexaploid — having a chromosome number that is six times the haploid number.
- hexapodal — of or relating to the hexapods
- hipped on — greatly interested or preoccupied, almost to an irrational extent; obsessed (usually followed by on): He's hipped on learning to play the tuba.
- hipped-on — greatly interested or preoccupied, almost to an irrational extent; obsessed (usually followed by on): He's hipped on learning to play the tuba.
- hippiedom — the lifestyle and world of hippies, especially in the 1960s.
- hippodame — a sea horse
- hodoscope — any device for tracing the path of a charged particle, esp a particle found in cosmic rays
- holeproof — (of fabric or an article of clothing) designed or made so as to prevent holes.
- holophote — an apparatus by which practically all the light from a lighthouse lamp or the like is thrown in a desired direction.
- holophyte — (of a plant) obtaining energy by synthesizing inorganic substances; autotrophic.
- holotypes — Plural form of holotype.
- home help — A home help is a person who is employed to visit sick or old people at home and help with their cleaning or cooking.
- home page — website's introductory page
- home port — the port where a ship is registered.
- homeopath — a person who practices or favors homeopathy.
- homeplace — a person's birthplace or family home.
- homophile — a homosexual.
- homophobe — a person who fears or hates homosexuals and homosexuality.
- homophone — Phonetics. a word pronounced the same as another but differing in meaning, whether spelled the same way or not, as heir and air.