9-letter words containing o, p, h, t
- hourplate — the dial of a clock or watch
- housekept — to keep or maintain a house.
- housetops — Plural form of housetop.
- hoverport — A terminal for hovercraft.
- hydroptic — (formerly) edema.
- hydropult — a type of water pump or machine that expels water by means of hand power, as, for example, a fire extinguisher
- hylophyte — a plant that grows in woods
- hypnodiet — a diet involving the use of hypnosis to change one's attitude to food
- hypnotics — Plural form of hypnotic.
- hypnotise — to put in the hypnotic state.
- hypnotism — the science dealing with the induction of hypnosis.
- hypnotist — the science dealing with the induction of hypnosis.
- hypnotize — to put in the hypnotic state.
- hypnotoid — resembling or similar to hypnosis
- hypoblast — the endoderm.
- hypocaust — a hollow space or system of channels in the floor or walls of some ancient Roman buildings that provided a central heating system by receiving and distributing the heat from a furnace.
- hypocotyl — the part of a plant embryo directly below the cotyledons, forming a connection with the radicle.
- 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.
- hyponasty — increased growth along the lower surface of a plant or plant part, causing it to bend upward.
- hypostoma — Hypostome.
- hypostome — any of several parts or organs of the mouth, as the labrum of a crustacean.
- hypostyle — having many columns carrying the roof or ceiling: a hypostyle hall.
- hypotaxis — dependent relation or construction, as of clauses; syntactic subordination.
- hypotheca — (microbiology, planktology) The lower or posterior half of the theca of a thecate protist such as a diatom or dinoflagellate.
- hypotonia — An abnormal loss of muscle tone.
- hypotonic — Physiology. (of tissue) having less than the normal tone.
- hypotonus — Hypotonia.
- hypotrich — any ciliate of the suborder Hypotricha, having cilia chiefly on the ventral surface.
- idiopathy — a disease not preceded or occasioned by any known morbid condition.
- isophotal — relating to an isophote or isophotes, or to a diagram on which isophotes are represented
- isopleths — Plural form of isopleth.
- jump shot — a shot with one or both hands in which a player leaps into the air and shoots the ball at the basket at the moment of reaching the highest point of the leap.
- karpathos — an island off the SE coast of Greece, part of the Dodecanese Islands, in the Aegean Sea. 110 sq. mi. (280 sq. km).
- lalopathy — any defect of speech.
- leptophos — a solid compound, C 13 H 10 BrCl 2 O 2 PS, used as a nonsystemic insecticide for food crops and lawn grass.
- lithopone — a white pigment consisting of zinc sulfide, barium sulfate, and some zinc oxide, used as a pigment and filler in the manufacture of paints, inks, leather, paper, linoleum, and face powders.
- lophodont — having molar teeth with crowns in the form of transverse ridges.
- lopoliths — Plural form of lopolith.
- malt shop — a retail establishment specializing in serving ice-cream drinks, as malted milks, milk shakes, and sodas.
- mazopathy — mazopathia.
- mesophyte — a plant growing under conditions of well-balanced moisture supply.
- metamorph — (biology) An organism that has undergone metamorphosis.
- metaphone — (algorithm, text) An algorithm for encoding a word so that similar sounding words encode the same. It's similar to soundex in purpose, but as it knows the basic rules of English pronunciation it's more accurate. The higher accuracy doesn't come free, though, metaphone requires more computational power as well as more storage capacity, but neither of these requirements are usually prohibitive. It is in the public domain so it can be freely implemented. Metaphone was developed by Lawrence Philips <[email protected]>. It is described in ["Practical Algorithms for Programmers", Binstock & Rex, Addison Wesley, 1995].
- metaphore — Misspelling of metaphor.
- metaphors — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- mixotroph — any organism capable of existing as either an autotroph or heterotroph.
- monopitch — having only one slope or a slope with a regular gradient
- morphotic — (biology) Connected with, or becoming an integral part of, a living unit or of the morphological framework.
- mothproof — resistant to attack by moths.
- motorship — a ship driven by a diesel or other internal-combustion engine.