10-letter words containing o, p, h, r
- hierophany — A physical manifestation of the holy or sacred, serving as a spiritual eidolon for emulation or worship.
- high-power — (of a rifle) of a sufficiently high muzzle velocity and using a heavy enough bullet to kill large game.
- high-proof — containing a high percentage of alcohol: high-proof spirits.
- hilltopper — the top or summit of a hill.
- hippocrene — a spring on Mount Helicon sacred to the Muses and regarded as a source of poetic inspiration.
- hippodrome — an arena or structure for equestrian and other spectacles.
- hippogriff — a fabulous creature resembling a griffin but having the body and hind parts of a horse.
- hippogryph — Alternative spelling of hippogriff.
- hipsterdom — The state of being a hipster.
- holocarpic — (of a fungus) having the entire thallus converted into fruiting bodies.
- holographs — Plural form of holograph.
- holography — the process or technique of making holograms.
- holophrase — a word functioning as a phrase or sentence, as the imperative Go!
- holotropic — Oriented or moving towards wholeness.
- home scrap — scrap steel reprocessed in the steel mill in which it was produced.
- homeomorph — any of the crystalline minerals characterized by a particular kind of homeomorphism.
- homographs — a word of the same written form as another but of different meaning and usually origin, whether pronounced the same way or not, as bear 1 “to carry; support” and bear 2 “animal” or lead 1 “to conduct” and lead 2 “metal.”.
- homography — The state or quality of being spelt homographically; the state or quality of existing as homographs.
- homomorphy — (biology) similarity of form; resemblance in external character or in geometric ground form.
- homophoric — Relating to homophora.
- homopteran — homopterous.
- homosphere — The lower part of the atmosphere, up to about sixty miles, in which there is no great change in its composition.
- honor camp — a prison work camp operating on an honor system.
- hoofprints — Plural form of hoofprint.
- hoop skirt — a woman's skirt made to stand out and drape in a stiff bell-like shape from the waist by an undergarment framework of flexible hoops connected by tapes.
- hoop-skirt — a skirt that has hoops made of bone or metal, etc fastened inside it to make it stiff and full
- hop clover — a trefoil, Trifolium campestre, having withered, yellow flowers that resemble the strobiles of a hop.
- hop garden — a field of hops
- hop-picker — a person employed or a machine used to pick hops
- hopper car — a freight car, usually open at the top and containing one or more hoppers so that bulk cargo can be quickly discharged through its bottom.
- horn poppy — a European plant, Glaucium flavum, of the poppy family, having yellow flowers, naturalized along sandy shores in eastern North America.
- horography — the art of constructing time-keeping instruments such as watches and clocks
- horoscopes — Plural form of horoscope.
- horse-whip — a whip for controlling horses.
- horsepower — a foot-pound-second unit of power, equivalent to 550 foot-pounds per second, or 745.7 watts.
- horsewhips — Plural form of horsewhip.
- hospitaler — 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.
- hot pepper — any of variously shaped pungent peppers of the genus Capsicum, containing large amounts of capsaicin and usually having thin walls.
- hot spring — a thermal spring having water warmer than 98°F (37°C): the water is usually heated by emanation from or passage near hot or molten rock.
- houseproud — Alternative form of house-proud.
- hoverports — Plural form of hoverport.
- hyalograph — an instrument used in hyalography.
- hydrograph — a graph of the water level or rate of flow of a body of water as a function of time, showing the seasonal change.
- hydropathy — the curing of disease by the internal and external use of water.
- hydrophane — a partly translucent variety of opal, which becomes more translucent or transparent when immersed in water.
- hydrophile — (chemistry) Any hydrophilic substance.
- hydrophobe — a hydrophobic substance.
- hydrophoby — Archaic form of hydrophobia.
- hydrophone — a device for locating sources of sound under water, as for detecting submarines by the noise of their engines.
- hydrophyte — a plant that grows in water or very moist ground; an aquatic plant.