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10-letter words containing p, h, o, e, y

  • hexaploidy — the condition of being a hexaploid
  • hey presto — magician's conjuring words
  • hieroglyph — Also, hieroglyphical. designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols are conventionalized, recognizable pictures of the things represented.
  • hierophany — A physical manifestation of the holy or sacred, serving as a spiritual eidolon for emulation or worship.
  • hokeypokey — (US) A group dance performed in a circle, in which people move various of their body parts in and out of the middle, and shake them about.
  • holy place — somewhere sacred
  • homeopathy — the method of treating disease by drugs, given in minute doses, that would produce in a healthy person symptoms similar to those of the disease (opposed to allopathy).
  • homeotypic — of or relating to the second division in meiosis.
  • hopelessly — In a way that shows or causes despair.
  • hyalophane — a variety of orthoclase in which some of the potassium is replaced by barium.
  • hydrophane — a partly translucent variety of opal, which becomes more translucent or transparent when immersed in water.
  • hydrophile — (chemistry) Any hydrophilic substance.
  • hydrophobe — a hydrophobic substance.
  • hydrophone — a device for locating sources of sound under water, as for detecting submarines by the noise of their engines.
  • hydrophyte — a plant that grows in water or very moist ground; an aquatic plant.
  • hydroplane — a seaplane.
  • hydropower — hydroelectric power.
  • hydroscope — an optical device for viewing objects below the surface of water.
  • hydrospace — the regions beneath the surface of the oceans and seas.
  • hydrotrope — (chemistry) A compound that solubilizes hydrophobic compounds in aqueous solutions.
  • hyetograph — a map or chart showing the average rainfall for the localities represented.
  • hygiaphone — a glass screen through which an employee may speak to members of the public, eg at a ticket office
  • hygrophobe — a plant that grows best with little or no moisture
  • hygrophyte — a plant that thrives in wet or very moist ground.
  • hygroscope — an instrument that indicates the approximate humidity of the air.
  • hypaethron — a part of a building or court which is open to the sky
  • hyperbaton — the use, especially for emphasis, of a word order other than the expected or usual one, as in “Bird thou never wert.”.
  • hyperbolas — Plural form of hyperbola.
  • hyperboles — Plural form of hyperbole.
  • hyperbolic — having the nature of hyperbole; exaggerated.
  • hyperchaos — (mathematics) A form of chaotic behaviour with at least two positive Lyapunov exponents.
  • hyperfocal — relating to the distance beyond which a lens can be focused to produce satisfactory image quality
  • hypergolic — (especially of rocket-fuel propellant constituents) igniting spontaneously upon contact with a complementary substance.
  • hyperlocal — relating to or focused on a very small geographical community, as a neighborhood: hyperlocal news websites; hyperlocal advertising.
  • hypernovae — Plural form of hypernova.
  • hyperoodon — (zoology) A whale in the genus Hyperoodon of the order Cetacea, comprising both species of bottlenose whale.
  • hyperosmia — an abnormally acute sense of smell.
  • hyperosmic — Of, pertaining to, or affected by hyperosmia.
  • hyperoxide — superoxide.
  • hyperploid — having a chromosome number that is greater than but not a multiple of the diploid number.
  • hyperpnoea — abnormally deep or rapid respiration.
  • hyperpower — an extremely powerful state that dominates all other states in every sphere of activity
  • hypersonic — noting or pertaining to speed that is at least five times that of sound in the same medium.
  • hypertonia — increased rigidity, tension, and spasticity of the muscles.
  • hypertonic — Physiology. of or relating to hypertonia.
  • hypertoxic — of, pertaining to, affected with, or caused by a toxin or poison: a toxic condition.
  • hypervisor — (computing) A software and/or firmware system that provides a virtual machine and allows it to operate directly on underlying hardware (instead of via emulation), but within specified constraints.
  • hyphenator — One who, or that which, hyphenates.
  • hypnogenic — of or relating to the induction of sleep
  • hypnoidize — to induce a state of sleep
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