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