9-letter words containing o, p, h
- aphorized — Simple past tense and past participle of aphorize.
- aphorizer — a person who aphorizes
- aphorizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of aphorize.
- aphrodite — the goddess of love and beauty, daughter of Zeus
- aphyllous — (of plants) having no leaves
- apiphobia — An inordinate fear of bees.
- apocrypha — the 14 books included as an appendix to the Old Testament in the Septuagint and the Vulgate but not included in the Hebrew canon. They are not printed in Protestant versions of the Bible
- apomorphy — (systematics): A derived characteristic of a clade. Any feature novel to a species and its descendants.
- apophasis — the device of mentioning a subject by stating that it will not be mentioned
- apophatic — of or relating to the belief that God can only be described by a process of negation
- apophenia — (psychology) The perception of or belief in connectedness among unrelated phenomena.
- apophenic — Of or relating to apophenia.
- apophyges — Plural form of apophyge.
- apophyses — Plural form of apophyse.
- apophysis — a process, outgrowth, or swelling from part of an animal or plant
- apothecia — the fruit of certain lichens and fungi: usually an open, saucer-shaped or cup-shaped body, the inner surface of which is covered with a layer that bears asci.
- apothegms — Plural form of apothegm.
- apothesis — (architecture) A place on the south side of the chancel in primitive churches, furnished with shelves, for books, vestments, etc.
- aquaphobe — a person who is abnormally afraid of water
- arcograph — an instrument used for drawing arcs without using a central point
- arthropod — any invertebrate of the phylum Arthropoda, having jointed limbs, a segmented body, and an exoskeleton made of chitin. The group includes the crustaceans, insects, arachnids, and centipedes
- asphodels — Plural form of asphodel.
- atmophile — (of a chemical element in the earth) having an affinity for the atmosphere, as neon or helium.
- atrophied — exhibiting or affected with atrophy; wasted; withered; shriveled: an atrophied arm; an atrophied talent.
- atrophies — Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
- audiphone — a type of hearing aid consisting of a diaphragm that, when placed against the upper teeth, conveys sound vibrations to the inner ear
- aulophyte — a free-living plant growing on or in another plant.
- autograph — An autograph is the signature of someone famous which is specially written for a fan to keep.
- autophagy — the consumption of one's own tissue by biting oneself
- autophoby — the reluctance to refer to oneself or be egotistical
- autophone — (archaic) idiophone.
- autophony — a diagnosis made by listening to vibration of one's own voice on the patient's chest
- autophyte — an autotrophic plant, such as any green plant
- autotroph — any organism capable of self-nourishment by using inorganic materials as a source of nutrients and using photosynthesis or chemosynthesis as a source of energy, as most plants and certain bacteria and protists.
- auxotroph — a mutant strain of microorganism having nutritional requirements additional to those of the normal organism
- bakeshops — Plural form of bakeshop.
- barhopped — Simple past tense and past participle of barhop.
- barograph — a self-recording aneroid barometer
- barophile — An organism that lives and thrives under high barometric pressure; a form of extremophile.
- basophile — Biology. a basophilic cell, tissue, organism, or substance.
- basophils — Plural form of basophil.
- biography — A biography of someone is an account of their life, written by someone else.
- biophilia — an innate love for the natural world, supposed to be felt universally by humankind
- biosphere — The biosphere is the part of the earth's surface and atmosphere where there are living things.
- bishopdom — the jurisdiction of a bishop
- bishopess — a bishop's wife
- bishopric — A bishopric is the area for which a bishop is responsible, or the rank or office of being a bishop.
- bisphenol — a synthetic organic compound used to make plastics and resins
- blepharo- — eyelid, eyelids
- blockship — a ship used to block a river or channel