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9-letter words containing o, p, h, t

  • chopstick — Chopsticks are a pair of thin sticks which people in China and the Far East use to eat their food.
  • cloth cap — A cloth cap is a soft flat cap with a stiff, curved part at the front called a peak. Cloth caps are usually worn by men.
  • cloth-cap — pertaining to or characteristic of the working class.
  • coopworth — a New Zealand and Australian breed of sheep derived from the Romney Marsh
  • coprolith — a hard stony mass of dried faeces in the intestine that is caused by chronic constipation
  • copyfight — the conflict between copyright holders and other individuals over the use, distribution, and replication of copyright materials
  • copyright — If someone has copyright on a piece of writing or music, it is illegal to reproduce or perform it without their permission.
  • cost-push — of or relating to cost-push inflation: a proponent of the cost-push theory.
  • countship — the rank or position of a count.
  • courtship — Courtship is the activity of courting or the time during which a man and a woman are courting.
  • crapshoot — If you describe something as a crapshoot, you mean that what happens depends entirely on luck or chance.
  • cristophe — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), ("Henri I"I) 1767–1820, Haitian revolutionary general, born in Grenada: king 1811–20.
  • cryophyte — an organism, esp an alga or moss, that grows on snow or ice
  • ctesiphon — an ancient city on the River Tigris about 100 km (60 miles) above Babylon. First mentioned in 221 bc, it was destroyed in the 7th and 8th centuries ad
  • cytopathy — a disease or disorder of a cell
  • cytophagy — the ingestion of cells by other cells.
  • dichoptic — having the eyes distinctly separate
  • diphthong — Phonetics. an unsegmentable, gliding speech sound varying continuously in phonetic quality but held to be a single sound or phoneme and identified by its apparent beginning and ending sound, as the oi- sound of toy or boil.
  • disposeth — Archaic third-person singular form of dispose.
  • dolphinet — a female dolphin
  • dopesheet — a bulletin or list including the names of entries in various horse races, and including information on each entry, as the name, jockey, and past performances.
  • dot pitch — (hardware)   The distance between a dot and the closest dot of the same colour (red, green or blue) on a color CRT. Dot pitch is typically from 0.28 to 0.51 mm but large presentation monitors may go up to 1.0 mm. The smaller the dot pitch, the crisper the image, 0.31 or less provides a sharp image, especially when displaying text. Dot pitch measurements between conventional tubes and Sony's Trinitron tubes are roughly, but not exactly comparable. Sony's CRTs use vertical stripes, not dots, and its measurement is the distance between stripes, not the diagonal distance between dots.
  • drop shot — (in tennis, badminton, etc.) a ball or shuttlecock so softly hit that it falls to the playing surface just after clearing the net.
  • dropcloth — A large piece of plastic or canvas put over something to protect it from construction debris or paint.
  • droplight — an electric or gas lamp suspended from the ceiling or wall by a flexible cord or tube.
  • dystrophy — Medicine/Medical. faulty or inadequate nutrition or development.
  • ectomorph — a person of the ectomorphic type.
  • ectophyte — a parasitic plant growing on an animal or another plant.
  • endophyte — A plant, especially a fungus, that lives inside another plant.
  • entophyte — endophyte
  • ephoralty — an ephor's office
  • ethiopian — person from Ethiopia
  • eutrophic — (of a lake or other body of water) rich in nutrients and so supporting a dense plant population, the decomposition of which kills animal life by depriving it of oxygen.
  • exophytic — (pathology) In pathology, pertaining to growth of a tumor outward.
  • exstrophy — (medicine) The eversion or turning out of any organ, or of its inner surface.
  • fleshpots — fleshpots. places offering luxurious and unrestrained pleasure or amusement: the fleshpots of Las Vegas. luxurious and unrestrained living.
  • footpaths — Plural form of footpath.
  • geophytes — Plural form of geophyte.
  • geophytic — Relating to geophytes.
  • grapeshot — a cluster of small cast-iron balls formerly used as a charge for a cannon.
  • ha'p'orth — a person considered as specified
  • haanepoot — a type of white wine made from the Hanepoot grape
  • halophyte — a plant that thrives in saline soil.
  • haplontic — (chiefly of an alga or other lower plant) having a life cycle in which the main form is haploid, with a diploid zygote being formed only briefly.
  • haplotype — Genetics. a combination of closely linked DNA sequences on one chromosome that are often inherited together: By comparing haplotypes of a mother and father with those of a fetus, scientists can study how new genetic changes arise.
  • happen to — chance to
  • haptonema — In haptophytes, a peg-like organelle attached near the flagella and unique to the group. May function in attachment, feeding, or avoidance responses.
  • heatproof — not affected or damaged by heat, especially when placed in an oven or over a direct flame: heatproof cookware.
  • heelposts — Plural form of heelpost.
  • heliotype — A picture obtained by the process of heliotypy.
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