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10-letter words containing o, r, p, h, e

  • froghopper — any of numerous leaping, homopterous insects of the family Cercopidae, which in the immature stages live in a spittlelike secretion on plants.
  • geographer — a person who specializes in geographical research, delineation, and study.
  • geographic — of or relating to geography.
  • geomorphic — of or relating to the form of the earth or the forms of its surface.
  • germaphobe — One who suffers from germaphobia.
  • germophobe — A person who fears physical contact with germs and is therefore obsessed with cleanliness.
  • glucophore — a chemical group responsible for sweetness of taste
  • gopherwood — yellowwood.
  • gramophone — a phonograph.
  • granophyre — a fine-grained or porphyritic granitic rock with a micrographic intergrowth of the minerals of the groundmass.
  • grapholect — an established and standardized written language
  • group home — a substitute home, usually located in a residential neighborhood, providing foster care for orphans, delinquents, disabled persons, or others with special needs.
  • gynophores — Plural form of gynophore.
  • hammerkops — Plural form of hammerkop.
  • haptometer — a mechanical device for measuring the sense of touch.
  • hard power — the ability to achieve one's goals by force, esp military force
  • harpooneer — A harpooner.
  • hartlepool — a seaport city in NE England.
  • hectograph — a process for making copies of a letter, memorandum, etc., from a prepared gelatin surface to which the original writing has been transferred.
  • hectorship — the quality or character of a hector
  • hektograph — to copy with the hectograph.
  • helicopter — any of a class of heavier-than-air craft that are lifted and sustained in the air horizontally by rotating wings or blades turning on vertical axes through power supplied by an engine.
  • heliograph — a device for signaling by means of a movable mirror that reflects beams of light, especially sunlight, to a distance.
  • heliotrope — any hairy plant belonging to the genus Heliotropium, of the borage family, as H. arborescens, cultivated for its small, fragrant purple flowers.
  • heliotropy — the growth of plants in a particular direction as a response to the stimulus of light, heliotropism
  • hemipteron — Alternative form of hemipteran.
  • hemitropal — hemitropous
  • heptachlor — a highly toxic, light-tan, waxy solid, C 10 H 5 Cl 7 , used as an insecticide: its manufacture and use are restricted in the U.S.
  • heptachord — a musical scale of seven notes.
  • heptameron — A literary work whose action covers a period of seven days.
  • herophilus — died ?280 bc, Greek anatomist in Alexandria. He was the first to distinguish sensory from motor nerves
  • hesperinos — vesper (def 3).
  • heterophil — Also, heterophilic. Immunology. (of an antibody) having an affinity for an antigen other than its specific antigen.
  • hey presto — magician's conjuring words
  • hieroglyph — Also, hieroglyphical. designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols are conventionalized, recognizable pictures of the things represented.
  • hierograph — sacred writing or characters
  • hierophant — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • hipsterdom — The state of being a hipster.
  • holophrase — a word functioning as a phrase or sentence, as the imperative Go!
  • 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.
  • homopteran — homopterous.
  • homosphere — The lower part of the atmosphere, up to about sixty miles, in which there is no great change in its composition.
  • hop clover — a trefoil, Trifolium campestre, having withered, yellow flowers that resemble the strobiles of a hop.
  • hop garden — a field of hops
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