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6-letter words containing p, h

  • hop on — jump on, board a vehicle
  • hop up — any twining plant of the genus Humulus, bearing male flowers in loose clusters and female flowers in conelike forms.
  • hopdog — a species of caterpillar
  • hopers — the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best: to give up hope.
  • hopeth — Archaic third-person singular form of hope.
  • hoping — the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best: to give up hope.
  • hoples — a son of Ion.
  • hopped — to make a short, bouncing leap; move by leaping with all feet off the ground.
  • hopperEdward, 1882–1967, U.S. painter and etcher.
  • hopple — to hobble; tether.
  • hot up — having or giving off heat; having a high temperature: a hot fire; hot coffee.
  • hotpot — mutton or beef cooked with potatoes in a covered pot.
  • hp vee — Hewlett-Packard Visual Engineering Environment
  • hp-mpe — Hewlett Packard Multi Processing Executive
  • hp-sux — (abuse, operating system)   /H-P suhks/ An unflattering hackerism for HP-UX which features some truly unique bogosities in the file system internals and elsewhere (these occasionally create portability problems). HP-UX is often referred to as "hockey-pux" inside HP, and one respondent claims that the proper pronunciation is /H-P ukkkhhhh/ as though one were about to spit. Another such alternate spelling and pronunciation is "H-PUX" /H-puhks/. Hackers at HP/Apollo (the former Apollo Computers which was swallowed by HP in 1989) have been heard to complain that Mr. Packard should have pushed to have his name first, if for no other reason than the greater eloquence of the resulting acronym. Compare AIDX, buglix, Telerat, Open DeathTrap, ScumOS, sun-stools.
  • hpcode — Stack-based intermediate language used by HP in many of its compilers for RISC and stack-based architectures. Supports Fortran, Ada, Pascal, COBOL and C++. Descended from Stanford's U-code.
  • hubcap — a removable cover for the center area of the exposed side of an automobile wheel, covering the axle.
  • huddup — a word used to encourage a horse to hurry
  • huipil — a richly embroidered cotton blouse worn by women in Mexico and Central America, often very wide and low-cut.
  • humped — having a hump.
  • humpen — a round drinking glass formerly made in Germany
  • humper — a rounded protuberance, especially a fleshy protuberance on the back, as that due to abnormal curvature of the spine in humans, or that normally present in certain animals, as the camel or bison.
  • humpie — a pink salmon inhabiting North Pacific waters: so-called because of the hump that appears behind the head of the male when it is ready for spawning.
  • humpty — a low padded seat; pouffe
  • huppah — a canopy under which the Jewish marriage ceremony is performed.
  • hurple — (Scotland) An impediment similar to a limp.
  • hutzpa — unmitigated effrontery or impudence; gall.
  • hypate — (on the ancient Greek lyre) the highest placed string, producing the lowest tone
  • hyper- — Hyper- is used to form adjectives that describe someone as having a lot or too much of a particular quality.
  • hyphae — (in a fungus) one of the threadlike elements of the mycelium.
  • hyphal — Of or pertaining to hyphae.
  • hyphen — a short line (-) used to connect the parts of a compound word or the parts of a word divided for any purpose.
  • hyping — to stimulate, excite, or agitate (usually followed by up): She was hyped up at the thought of owning her own car.
  • hypnic — relating to or inducing sleep
  • hypno- — indicating sleep
  • hypnos — the ancient Greek god of sleep.
  • hypnum — any of various plants of the genus Hypnum, the largest genus of moss
  • hypnus — Hypnos
  • hypoid — A bevel wheel with teeth engaging with a spiral pinion mounted at right angles to the wheel’s axis, used to connect nonintersecting shafts in vehicle transmissions and other mechanisms.
  • hypped — (dated) Affected with hypochondria.
  • hypso- — indicating height
  • hyssop — any of several aromatic herbs belonging to the genus Hyssopus, of the mint family, especially H. officinalis, native to Europe, having clusters of small blue flowers.
  • i hope — You use 'I hope' in expressions such as 'I hope you don't mind' and 'I hope I'm not disturbing you', when you are being polite and want to make sure that you have not offended someone or disturbed them.
  • imphal — a state in NE India between Assam and Burma. 8620 sq. mi. (22,326 sq. km). Capital: Imphal.
  • imphee — an African sorghum plant that yields a sweet juice
  • impish — mischievous.
  • inhoop — to confine or enclose within, or as if within, a hoop
  • inship — to travel or send by ship
  • iphone — Alternative case form of iPhone.
  • joseph — 1741–90, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1765–90 (son of Francis I; brother of Leopold II and Marie Antoinette).
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