9-letter words containing p, e, a, h, n
- hampering — to hold back; hinder; impede: A steady rain hampered the progress of the work.
- handphone — A cordless or cellular phone.
- handpiece — The part of a dental drill, surgical instrument, etc. that is held in the hand.
- handpress — a printing press that is manipulated by hand
- handshape — (in sign language) the held position of the hand and fingers in producing a particular sign.
- handspike — a bar used as a lever.
- happen by — chance upon
- happen on — to take place; come to pass; occur: Something interesting is always happening in New York.
- happen to — chance to
- happen-so — chance; happenstance; accident: Meeting you today was pure happen-so.
- happeneth — Archaic third-person singular form of happen.
- happening — something that happens; occurrence; event.
- happiness — the quality or state of being happy.
- happyness — Misspelling of happiness.
- haptonema — In haptophytes, a peg-like organelle attached near the flagella and unique to the group. May function in attachment, feeding, or avoidance responses.
- harden up — to tighten the sheets of a sailing vessel so as to prevent luffing
- harpooned — Simple past tense and past participle of harpoon.
- harpooner — a barbed, spearlike missile attached to a rope, and thrown by hand or shot from a gun, used for killing and capturing whales and large fish.
- headphone — Audio. a headset designed for use with a stereo system.
- hedyphane — a white or yellow mineral with elongated crystals similar to mimetite, chiefly found in Sweden
- hellspawn — (fantasy) A creature or creatures from Hell.
- hen party — a party or gathering for women only.
- heptagons — Plural form of heptagon.
- heptanone — any of three isomeric ketones, C 11 H 14 O, derived from heptane.
- hesperian — western; occidental.
- honeytrap — A stratagem in which irresistible bait is used to lure a victim.
- hyper-man — A browser available with Epoch giving hypertext access to the Unix manual.
- hypernova — (astronomy) The gravitational collapse of a massive star to form a black hole.
- hyperpnea — abnormally deep or rapid respiration.
- hyphenate — to join by a hyphen.
- hypopneas — Plural form of hypopnea.
- hypopnoea — Alternative spelling of hypopnea.
- in a heap — If someone collapses in a heap, they fall heavily and untidily and do not move.
- integraph — integrator (def 2).
- iphigenia — Classical Mythology. the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra and sister of Orestes and Electra: when she was about to be sacrificed to ensure a wind to take the Greek ships to Troy, she was saved by Artemis, whose priestess she became.
- junk heap — an accumulation of refuse and discarded matter
- knaveship — a small proportion of milled grain that was due to the person who did the milling
- lexiphane — One who uses words pretentiously.
- manhelper — a long pole for holding a paintbrush, used in painting areas otherwise out of ordinary reach.
- marchpane — marzipan.
- mayhappen — perhaps; mayhap.
- megaphone — a cone-shaped device for magnifying or directing the voice, chiefly used in addressing a large audience out of doors or in calling to someone at a distance. Compare bullhorn.
- melphalan — A particular drug used in chemotherapy.
- merneptah — king of ancient Egypt c1225–c1215 b.c. (son of Ramses II).
- 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].
- mishappen — (obsolete) To encounter grief or misfortune.
- misshapen — badly shaped; deformed.
- monophase — (electricity) Having a single phase of alternating current.
- moonphase — a phase of the moon
- mophandle — The handle of a mop.