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11-letter words containing p, e, t, s, h

  • hepatitis b — a form of hepatitis caused by a DNA virus (hepatitis B virus, or HBV) that persists in the blood, characterized by a long incubation period: usually transmitted by sexual contact or by injection or ingestion of infected blood or other bodily fluids.
  • hepatitis c — a form of hepatitis with clinical effects similar to those of hepatitis B, caused by a blood-borne retrovirus (hepatitis C virus) that may be of the hepatitis non-A, non-B type.
  • hepatocytes — Plural form of hepatocyte.
  • hepatoscopy — medical examination of the liver.
  • heptagynous — (of a flower) having seven pistils
  • heptamerous — consisting of or divided into seven parts.
  • heptameters — Plural form of heptameter.
  • heptandrous — (of a flower) having seven stamens
  • heptarchies — Plural form of heptarchy.
  • heptarchist — A ruler of one division of a heptarchy.
  • heptastichs — Plural form of heptastich.
  • heptathlons — Plural form of heptathlon.
  • hertzsprung — Ejnar (ˈəɪnar). 1873–1967, Danish astronomer: he discovered the existence of giant and dwarf stars, originating one form of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
  • heteroplasm — (pathology) Tissue growing in a part of the body where it does not normally occur.
  • heteroptics — incorrect or perverted perception of what is seen; hallucinatory vision.
  • heterospory — the production of both microspores and megaspores.
  • hierophants — Plural form of hierophant.
  • high priest — a chief priest.
  • hip-shooter — a person who acts or talks in a rash, impetuous way
  • hippeastrum — any plant of the South American amaryllidaceous genus Hippeastrum: cultivated for their large funnel-shaped typically red flowers
  • hippocrates — ("Father of Medicine") c460–c377 b.c, Greek physician.
  • hipsterisms — a usually young person who is trendy, stylish, or progressive in an unconventional way; someone who is hip.
  • homopterans — Plural form of homopteran.
  • homopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Homoptera, an order of insects closely related to the hemipterous insects (in some classifications a suborder of Hemiptera) but having membranous forewings and hind wings, including the aphids, cicadas, leafhoppers, planthoppers, and scale insects.
  • hopscotched — Simple past tense and past participle of hopscotch.
  • hospitalise — (British spelling) alternative spelling of hospitalize.
  • hospitalize — to place in a hospital for medical care or observation: The doctor hospitalized grandfather as soon as she checked his heart.
  • hospitaller — a member of the religious and military order (Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
  • house party — the guests at such an affair or party: The house party goes sailing today.
  • house plant — an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.
  • houseparent — one of a married couple responsible for a group of young people, as students, living in a dormitory, hostel, etc., sometimes acting solely as an advisor, but often serving as host or hostess, chaperon, housekeeper, etc.
  • houseplants — Plural form of houseplant.
  • http server — (web)   (Or "web server") A server process running at a website which sends out web pages in response to HTTP requests from remote browsers. If one site runs more than one server they must use different port numbers. Alternatively, several hostnames may be mapped to the same computer in which case they are known as "virtual servers".
  • hydrophytes — Plural form of hydrophyte.
  • hygrophytes — Plural form of hygrophyte.
  • hyperbolist — One who uses hyperbole; an exaggerator.
  • hypergelast — Someone who laughs excessively.
  • hypermeters — Plural form of hypermeter.
  • hyperscript — Informix. The object-based programming language for Wingz, used for creating charts, graphs, graphics, and customised data entry.
  • hyperstatic — redundant (def 5b).
  • hypersthene — a dark iron magnesium silicate, an orthorhombic pyroxene containing more than 14 percent ferrous oxide.
  • hyperstress — extreme stress or anxiety
  • hyperstrict — A function which is hyperstrict in some argument will fully evaluate that argument. To fully evaluate an object, evaluate it to WHNF and if it is a constructed data object (e.g. a list or tuple) then fully evaluate every component and so on recursively. Thus a hyperstrict function will fail to terminate if its argument or any component or sub-component of its argument fails to terminate (i.e. if its argument is not "total").
  • hypesthesia — an abnormally weak sense of pain, heat, cold, or touch.
  • hypocenters — Plural form of hypocenter.
  • hypocretins — Plural form of hypocretin.
  • hypohalites — Plural form of hypohalite.
  • hypostasize — to assume the reality of (an idea, proposition, etc.); hypostatize.
  • hypostatise — to treat or regard (a concept, idea, etc.) as a distinct substance or reality.
  • hypostatize — to treat or regard (a concept, idea, etc.) as a distinct substance or reality.
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