9-letter words containing p, h
- hippiater — (rare) A veterinarian specializing in horse care.
- hippiatry — the treatment of disease in horses
- hippiedom — the lifestyle and world of hippies, especially in the 1960s.
- hippieish — Alternative spelling of hippyish.
- hippocras — an old medicinal cordial made of wine mixed with spices.
- hippodame — a sea horse
- 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.
- hippurite — an extinct type of bivalve mollusc (family Hippuritidae) found as fossils from the late Cretaceous period
- hispanism — a movement in Latin America for the promotion of Spanish or of native culture and influence. Compare hispanidad.
- hispanist — a specialist in the Spanish or Portuguese language or in Spanish or Latin-American literature or culture.
- hockshops — (US, rare) Plural form of hockshop.
- 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.
- hodoscope — any device for tracing the path of a charged particle, esp a particle found in cosmic rays
- 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.
- home page — website's introductory page
- home port — the port where a ship is registered.
- homeopath — a person who practices or favors homeopathy.
- homeplace — a person's birthplace or family home.
- 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
- homophile — a homosexual.
- homophily — The tendency of individuals to associate with others of the same kind.
- homophobe — a person who fears or hates homosexuals and homosexuality.
- homophone — Phonetics. a word pronounced the same as another but differing in meaning, whether spelled the same way or not, as heir and air.
- homophony — the quality or state of being homophonic.
- homophora — A reference that requires some type of general knowledge to understand.
- 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.
- 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.
- homotopic — (topology, of two maps) Such that there is an interval of maps joining one to the other.
- homotypal — of normal type
- homotypic — of or relating to a homotype.
- honey pot — any of a caste of workers in certain species of ants, that serve as living storehouses for a honeylike material later used by the whole colony
- honeypots — Plural form of honeypot.
- honeytrap — A stratagem in which irresistible bait is used to lure a victim.
- hoofprint — the impression made by an animal's hoof.
- hoop back — a chair back having the uprights and crest rail in a continuous arched form.
- hoop iron — iron in the form of thin strips for bonding masonry, holding barrels together, etc.
- hoop pine — a fast-growing timber tree of Australia, Araucaria cunninghamii, having rough bark with hoop-like cracks around the trunk and branches: family Araucariaceae
- hoopsters — Plural form of hoopster.