9-letter words containing p, h, o, r
- ecosphere — Also called physiological atmosphere. the part of the atmosphere in which it is possible to breathe normally without aid: the portion of the troposphere from sea level to an altitude of about 13,000 feet (4000 meters).
- ectomorph — a person of the ectomorphic type.
- eidograph — a type of pantograph that was invented by the Scottish mathematician William Wallace in 1821 and which was more accurate than other pantographs
- endomorph — A person with a soft round body build and a high proportion of fat tissue.
- endorphin — Any of a group of hormones secreted within the brain and nervous system and having a number of physiological functions. They are peptides that activate the body’s opiate receptors, causing an analgesic effect.
- ephemeron — An insect that lives only for a day or a few days.
- ephoralty — an ephor's office
- ergograph — A graph that shows a relation between human activities, or agricultural/climate factors, and a seasonal year.
- eriophyid — a type of microscopic mite that causes plant damage
- esophoria — (ophthalmology) Inward deviation of the eye usually due to extra-ocular muscle imbalance.
- euphorbia — A plant of a genus that comprises the spurges.
- europhile — One who loves Europe, Europeans, or European culture.
- eutrophic — (of a lake or other body of water) rich in nutrients and so supporting a dense plant population, the decomposition of which kills animal life by depriving it of oxygen.
- exophoria — (ophthalmology) A form of heterophoria in which there is a tendency of the eyes to deviate outward.
- exophoric — Relating to, or exhibiting, exophora.
- exosphere — The outermost region of a planet's atmosphere.
- exstrophy — (medicine) The eversion or turning out of any organ, or of its inner surface.
- farm shop — a shop that sells farm produce
- geography — the science dealing with the areal differentiation of the earth's surface, as shown in the character, arrangement, and interrelations over the world of such elements as climate, elevation, soil, vegetation, population, land use, industries, or states, and of the unit areas formed by the complex of these individual elements.
- geosphere — the solid portion of the earth (distinguished from atmosphere, hydrosphere).
- gonophore — an asexually produced bud in hydrozoans that gives rise to the equivalent of a medusa.
- gophering — any of several ground squirrels of the genus Citellus, of the prairie regions of North America.
- gorakhpur — a city in SE Uttar Pradesh, in N India.
- grapeshot — a cluster of small cast-iron balls formerly used as a charge for a cannon.
- grog-shop — a saloon or barroom, especially a cheap one.
- gynophore — the elongated stalk of a pistil.
- ha'p'orth — a person considered as specified
- hammerkop — A bird from southern Africa, Scopus umbretta, of the Scopidae family and related to the herons.
- hard copy — copy, as computer output printed on paper, that can be read without using a special device (opposed to soft copy).
- hard porn — hard-core pornography.
- 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.
- heatproof — not affected or damaged by heat, especially when placed in an oven or over a direct flame: heatproof cookware.
- heliports — Plural form of heliport.
- helm port — the opening at the stern of a ship, through which a rudderstock passes.
- hemitrope — twin1 (def 5).
- hemotroph — the material from the maternal bloodstream and placenta that nourishes a mammalian embryo.
- herpetoid — reptilian, reptiliform
- heteropod — any marine invertebrate with a foot or feet adapted for swimming
- hippocras — an old medicinal cordial made of wine mixed with spices.
- hodograph — the figure described by the extremity of a vector that has a fixed origin and a position vector equal to the velocity of a moving particle.
- 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.
- home port — the port where a ship is registered.
- homograph — a word of the same written form as another but of different meaning and usually origin, whether pronounced the same way or not, as bear 1 “to carry; support” and bear 2 “animal” or lead 1 “to conduct” and lead 2 “metal.”.
- homomorph — something that is similar in form to something else
- homophora — A reference that requires some type of general knowledge to understand.
- homopolar — of uniform polarity; not separated or changed into ions; not polar in activity.
- homospore — (botany) any plant producing spores of the same size and type.
- homospory — the production of a single kind of spore, neither microspore nor megaspore.