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9-letter words containing p, h, a, l

  • hotplates — Plural form of hotplate.
  • hourplate — the dial of a clock or watch
  • hula hoop — toy: plastic hoop
  • hypallage — the reversal of the expected syntactic relation between two words, as in “her beauty's face” for “her face's beauty.”.
  • hyperbola — the set of points in a plane whose distances to two fixed points in the plane have a constant difference; a curve consisting of two distinct and similar branches, formed by the intersection of a plane with a right circular cone when the plane makes a greater angle with the base than does the generator of the cone. Equation: x 2 /a 2 − y 2 /b 2 = ±1.
  • hyperreal — Exaggerated in comparison to reality.
  • hypertalk — A verbose semicompiled language by Bill Atkinson and Dan Winkler, with loose syntax and high readability. HyperTalk uses HyperCard as an object management system, development environment and interface builder. Programs are organised into "stacks" of "cards", each of which may have "buttons" and "fields". All data storage is in zero-terminated strings in fields, local, or global variables; all data references are through "chunk expressions" of the form: 'last item of background field "Name List" of card ID 34217'. Flow of control is event-driven and uses message-passing among scripts that are attached to stack, background, card, field and button objects.
  • hypethral — (of a classical building) wholly or partly open to the sky.
  • hypnoidal — characterizing a state that resembles mild hypnosis but that is usually induced by other than hypnotic means.
  • hypoblast — the endoderm.
  • isophotal — relating to an isophote or isophotes, or to a diagram on which isophotes are represented
  • ispaghula — dietary fibre derived from the seed husks of Plantago orata and used as a thickener or stabilizer in the food industry
  • john paul — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1798–1858, president of the Republic of Texas.
  • lagomorph — any member of the order Lagomorpha, comprising the hares, rabbits, and pikas, resembling the rodents but having two pairs of upper incisors.
  • lairdship — the condition of being a laird, or the rank of laird
  • lalopathy — any defect of speech.
  • lamb chop — cutlets of young sheep's meat
  • lamp-hole — a hole in the ground for lowering a lamp down into a sewer
  • lampbrush — (rare) A form of brush, containing loops of material, used for dusting light fittings.
  • lamplight — the light thrown by a lamp.
  • lampshade — a shade, usually translucent or opaque, for shielding the glare of a light source in a lamp or for directing the light to a particular area.
  • lampshell — Alternative form of lamp shell.
  • lap child — a child who has not yet begun or has just begun to walk.
  • lap-chart — a log of every lap covered by each car in a race, showing the exact position throughout
  • launchpad — the platform on which a missile or launch vehicle undergoes final prelaunch checkout and countdown and from which it is launched from the surface of the earth.
  • lexigraph — A lexigram or ideograph, a graphical depiction of a single word.
  • lexiphage — (graphics)   /lek'si-fayj"/ A notorious word chomper, implemented and named by John Doty in late 1972 on and HP calculator and later on ITS. The lexiphage program would draw on a selected victim's bitmapped terminal the words "THE BAG" in ornate letters, followed a pair of jaws biting pieces of it off.
  • lexiphane — One who uses words pretentiously.
  • logograph — a conventional, abbreviated symbol for a frequently recurring word or phrase, as the symbol & for the word and. Also called logograph [law-guh-graf, -grahf, log-uh-] /ˈlɔ gəˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf, ˈlɒg ə-/ (Show IPA).
  • lunchpail — lunchbox.
  • lymphatic — pertaining to, containing, or conveying lymph.
  • lymphomas — Plural form of lymphoma.
  • machpelah — the site of a cave, probably in the ancient city of Hebron, where Abraham, Sarah, Rebekah, Isaac, Jacob, and Leah were buried. Gen. 23:19; 25:9; 49:30; 50:13.
  • mail path — source route
  • malpighia — (botany) Any of the genus Malpighia of tropical American shrubs.
  • malt shop — a retail establishment specializing in serving ice-cream drinks, as malted milks, milk shakes, and sodas.
  • manhelper — a long pole for holding a paintbrush, used in painting areas otherwise out of ordinary reach.
  • matchplay — Alternative form of match play.
  • megaphyll — the relatively large type of leaf produced by ferns and seed plants
  • melaphyre — a type of dark igneous rock embedded with feldspar crystals, related to basalt.
  • melphalan — A particular drug used in chemotherapy.
  • mophandle — The handle of a mop.
  • mphahlele — Ezekiel (Es'kia Mphahlele) 1919–2008, South African writer.
  • multipath — a way beaten, formed, or trodden by the feet of persons or animals.
  • naphthols — Plural form of naphthol.
  • nemophila — any of a genus, Nemophila, of low-growing hairy annual plants, esp N. menziesii, grown for its blue or white flowers: family Hydrophyllaceae
  • neophilia — Love of new things.
  • nephalism — teetotalism; abstinence from alcohol
  • nephalist — (obsolete, Temperance movement) One who practises nephalism; a teetotaller.
  • notaphily — the collecting of bank notes as a hobby.
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