9-letter words containing p, h, y, r
- hyperbole — obvious and intentional exaggeration.
- hypercard — A software package by Bill Atkinson for storage and retrieval of information on the Macintosh. It can handle images and is designed for browsing. The powerful customisable interactive user interface allows new applications to be easily constructed by manipulating objects on the screen, often without conventional programming, though the language HyperTalk can be used for more complex tasks.
- hypercube — A geometric figure in four or more dimensions that is analogous to a cube in three dimensions.
- hyperemia — an abnormally large amount of blood in any part of the body.
- hyperemic — an abnormally large amount of blood in any part of the body.
- hyperfine — Extremely fine, especially of the hyperfine structure in the spectra of atoms and molecules.
- hyperform — a pronunciation or grammatical form or usage produced by hypercorrection.
- hypergamy — the practice among Hindu women of marrying into a caste at least as high as their own.
- hypericin — an antidepressant and antiviral compound derived from Saint John's wort
- hypericum — A yellow-flowered plant of a genus that includes the St. John’s worts and rose of Sharon.
- hyperlink — hypertext link
- hypermart — a very large, discount supermarket with a maximum range of products including groceries, apparel and general household goods
- hypermile — to improve fuel mileage in a motor vehicle, as by adopting certain driving techniques or making design alterations to the vehicle.
- 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.
- hyperopia — a condition of the eye in which parallel rays are focused behind the retina, distant objects being seen more distinctly than near ones; farsightedness (opposed to myopia).
- hyperopic — Farsighted; of, having, or pertaining to hyperopia.
- hyperoxia — (pathology) A condition caused by an excess of oxygen in tissues and organs.
- hyperoxic — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting hyperoxia.
- hyperpnea — abnormally deep or rapid respiration.
- hyperpure — extremely pure or completely uncontaminated
- 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.
- hypertext — a method of storing data through a computer program that allows a user to create and link fields of information at will and to retrieve the data nonsequentially.
- hyperware — (hypertext) Software that implements or uses hypertext.
- hypethral — (of a classical building) wholly or partly open to the sky.
- hypobaric — (of an anesthetic) having a specific gravity lower than that of cerebrospinal fluid. Compare hyperbaric (def 1).
- hypocracy — Misspelling of hypocrisy.
- hypocrism — (obsolete) hypocrisy.
- hypocrisy — a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.
- hypocrite — a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, especially one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements.
- hypoderma — hypodermis.
- hypomorph — a mutant gene
- hypophora — (rhetoric) A device in which the author poses a question which is in turn answered.
- hyporheic — Denoting an area or ecosystem beneath the bed of a river or stream that is saturated with water and that supports invertebrate fauna which play a role in the larger ecosystem.
- hypospray — (science fiction) A kind of jet injector.
- hypotrich — any ciliate of the suborder Hypotricha, having cilia chiefly on the ventral surface.
- keyphrase — (cryptography) A phrase used in encryption in the style of a keyword.
- kymograph — an instrument for measuring and graphically recording variations in fluid pressure, as those of the human pulse.
- mayorship — the chief executive official, usually elected, of a city, village, or town.
- melaphyre — a type of dark igneous rock embedded with feldspar crystals, related to basalt.
- myatrophy — myoatrophy.
- myographs — Plural form of myograph.
- myomorpha — A major division of the rodents that includes the rats, mice, voles, hamsters, and their relatives.
- orography — the branch of physical geography dealing with mountains.
- orphreyed — embroidered with gold
- orthopedy — Archaic form of orthopedics.