9-letter words containing p, h, l
- heptaglot — a book written in seven languages
- heptalogy — (rare) # A set of seven works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as seven individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
- hexaploid — having a chromosome number that is six times the haploid number.
- hexapodal — of or relating to the hexapods
- hip flask — small container for carrying alcohol
- hiplength — reaching to or covering the hips, as clothing: a hiplength sweater.
- hippology — the study of horses.
- hippolyta — a queen of the Amazons, variously said to have been killed by Hercules or to have been conquered and married by Theseus.
- holeproof — (of fabric or an article of clothing) designed or made so as to prevent holes.
- holograph — Also, holographic [hol-uh-graf-ik, hoh-luh-] /ˌhɒl əˈgræf ɪk, ˌhoʊ lə-/ (Show IPA), holographical. wholly written by the person in whose name it appears: a holograph letter.
- holophote — an apparatus by which practically all the light from a lighthouse lamp or the like is thrown in a desired direction.
- holophyte — (of a plant) obtaining energy by synthesizing inorganic substances; autotrophic.
- holotypes — Plural form of holotype.
- holotypic — Relating to a holotype.
- home help — A home help is a person who is employed to visit sick or old people at home and help with their cleaning or cooking.
- homeplace — a person's birthplace or family home.
- homophile — a homosexual.
- homophily — The tendency of individuals to associate with others of the same kind.
- homophyly — a resemblance due to common ancestry.
- homoplasy — correspondence in form or structure, owing to a similar environment.
- homoploid — of an organism or a cell whose set of chromosomes exhibits the same degree of ploidy as an organism or cell with which it is compared.
- homopolar — of uniform polarity; not separated or changed into ions; not polar in activity.
- homotypal — of normal type
- hopefully — in a hopeful manner: We worked hopefully and energetically, thinking we might finish first.
- hoplology — the study of weapons or armour
- horseplay — rough or boisterous play or pranks.
- hospitale — a place of lodging
- hospitals — Plural form of hospital.
- hot plate — a portable appliance for cooking, formerly heated by a gas burner placed underneath it, now heated chiefly by an electrical unit in the appliance.
- hotplates — Plural form of hotplate.
- hourplate — the dial of a clock or watch
- hula hoop — toy: plastic hoop
- hustle up — to prepare quickly
- hydropult — a type of water pump or machine that expels water by means of hand power, as, for example, a fire extinguisher
- hylophyte — a plant that grows in woods
- 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.
- hyperbole — obvious and intentional exaggeration.
- hyperlink — hypertext link
- hypermile — to improve fuel mileage in a motor vehicle, as by adopting certain driving techniques or making design alterations to the vehicle.
- 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.
- hypnology — the science dealing with the phenomena of sleep.
- hypoblast — the endoderm.
- hypocotyl — the part of a plant embryo directly below the cotyledons, forming a connection with the radicle.
- hypoploid — having a chromosome number that is less than the diploid number.
- hypostyle — having many columns carrying the roof or ceiling: a hypostyle hall.
- indepthly — (nonstandard) in depth.