9-letter words containing p, h, e, n
- 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.
- help menu — the place on a computer where you can get help and advice
- helplines — Plural form of helpline.
- hen party — a party or gathering for women only.
- henpecked — browbeaten, bullied, or intimidated by one's wife, girlfriend, etc.: a henpecked husband who never dared to contradict his wife.
- heptagons — Plural form of heptagon.
- heptanone — any of three isomeric ketones, C 11 H 14 O, derived from heptane.
- herceptin — a monoclonal antibody that inhibits the protein that can fuel tumour growth, used in the treatment of breast cancer
- hesperian — western; occidental.
- hiplength — reaching to or covering the hips, as clothing: a hiplength sweater.
- hipped on — greatly interested or preoccupied, almost to an irrational extent; obsessed (usually followed by on): He's hipped on learning to play the tuba.
- hipped-on — greatly interested or preoccupied, almost to an irrational extent; obsessed (usually followed by on): He's hipped on learning to play the tuba.
- homophone — Phonetics. a word pronounced the same as another but differing in meaning, whether spelled the same way or not, as heir and air.
- honey pot — any of a caste of workers in certain species of ants, that serve as living storehouses for a honeylike material later used by the whole colony
- honeypots — Plural form of honeypot.
- honeytrap — A stratagem in which irresistible bait is used to lure a victim.
- hoop pine — a fast-growing timber tree of Australia, Araucaria cunninghamii, having rough bark with hoop-like cracks around the trunk and branches: family Araucariaceae
- hoppiness — The state of being hoppy.
- hornpipes — Plural form of hornpipe.
- horsepond — A pond for watering horses.
- huon pine — a coniferous tree, Dacrydium franklinii, of Tasmania, having very small cones and yielding timber.
- hyper-man — A browser available with Epoch giving hypertext access to the Unix manual.
- hyperfine — Extremely fine, especially of the hyperfine structure in the spectra of atoms and molecules.
- hypericin — an antidepressant and antiviral compound derived from Saint John's wort
- hyperlink — hypertext link
- hypernews — A Hypertext system from the Turing Institute Glasgow, based on NeWS.
- hypernova — (astronomy) The gravitational collapse of a massive star to form a black hole.
- hypernyms — Plural form of hypernym.
- hypernymy — the state or quality of being a hypernym or superordinate (a general class under which a set of subcategories is subsumed).
- hyperonym — (linguistics) Hypernym; superordinate term.
- hyperpnea — abnormally deep or rapid respiration.
- hyphenate — to join by a hyphen.
- hyphening — Present participle of hyphen.
- hyphenism — dual patriotic loyalty
- hyphenize — hyphenate.
- hypnodiet — a diet involving the use of hypnosis to change one's attitude to food
- hypnogeny — hypnosis or the induction of a hypnotic state
- hypnotise — to put in the hypnotic state.
- hypnotize — to put in the hypnotic state.