9-letter words containing o, p, e
- homospore — (botany) any plant producing spores of the same size and type.
- honey pot — any of a caste of workers in certain species of ants, that serve as living storehouses for a honeylike material later used by the whole colony
- honeypots — Plural form of honeypot.
- honeytrap — A stratagem in which irresistible bait is used to lure a victim.
- hoop pine — a fast-growing timber tree of Australia, Araucaria cunninghamii, having rough bark with hoop-like cracks around the trunk and branches: family Araucariaceae
- hoopsters — Plural form of hoopster.
- hoped-for — Hoped-for is used to describe something that people would like to happen, and which they usually think is likely or possible.
- hopefully — in a hopeful manner: We worked hopefully and energetically, thinking we might finish first.
- hopped up — excited; enthusiastic; exuberant, especially overexuberant.
- hopped-up — excited; enthusiastic; exuberant, especially overexuberant.
- hoppiness — The state of being hoppy.
- hornpipes — Plural form of hornpipe.
- horoscope — a diagram of the heavens, showing the relative position of planets and the signs of the zodiac, for use in calculating births, foretelling events in a person's life, etc.
- horseplay — rough or boisterous play or pranks.
- horsepond — A pond for watering horses.
- horsewhip — a whip for controlling horses.
- hosepipes — Plural form of hosepipe.
- hospitage — the position of being a guest
- hospitale — a place of lodging
- hospitate — (obsolete, transitive) To receive with hospitality; to lodge as a guest.
- hot plate — a portable appliance for cooking, formerly heated by a gas burner placed underneath it, now heated chiefly by an electrical unit in the appliance.
- hot press — a hot press is an airing cupboard for clothes
- hot-press — a machine applying heat in conjunction with mechanical pressure, as for producing a smooth surface on paper or for expressing oil.
- hotplates — Plural form of hotplate.
- hourplate — the dial of a clock or watch
- housekeep — to keep or maintain a house.
- housekept — to keep or maintain a house.
- housetops — Plural form of housetop.
- hoverport — A terminal for hovercraft.
- huon pine — a coniferous tree, Dacrydium franklinii, of Tasmania, having very small cones and yielding timber.
- hylophyte — a plant that grows in woods
- hyperbola — the set of points in a plane whose distances to two fixed points in the plane have a constant difference; a curve consisting of two distinct and similar branches, formed by the intersection of a plane with a right circular cone when the plane makes a greater angle with the base than does the generator of the cone. Equation: x 2 /a 2 − y 2 /b 2 = ±1.
- hyperbole — obvious and intentional exaggeration.
- hyperform — a pronunciation or grammatical form or usage produced by hypercorrection.
- hypernova — (astronomy) The gravitational collapse of a massive star to form a black hole.
- hyperonym — (linguistics) Hypernym; superordinate term.
- hyperopia — a condition of the eye in which parallel rays are focused behind the retina, distant objects being seen more distinctly than near ones; farsightedness (opposed to myopia).
- hyperopic — Farsighted; of, having, or pertaining to hyperopia.
- hyperoxia — (pathology) A condition caused by an excess of oxygen in tissues and organs.
- hyperoxic — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting hyperoxia.
- hypnodiet — a diet involving the use of hypnosis to change one's attitude to food
- hypnogeny — hypnosis or the induction of a hypnotic state
- hypnotise — to put in the hypnotic state.
- hypnotize — to put in the hypnotic state.
- hypocrite — a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, especially one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements.
- hypodense — Less dense (than normal).
- hypoderma — hypodermis.
- hypogenic — formed beneath the earth's surface, as granite (opposed to epigene).
- hypogeous — underground; subterranean.
- hypophyge — apophyge (def 2).