8-letter words containing p, m
- gymslips — Plural form of gymslip.
- gyp-room — a pantry, especially one attached to a student's quarters.
- gypsyism — the behaviour of or connected with gypsies
- hamerkop — Alternative spelling of hammerkop.
- hampered — Hinder or impede the movement or progress of.
- hampster — Alternative form of hamster.
- handlamp — A small lamp carried in the hand.
- harrumph — to clear the throat audibly in a self-important manner: The professor harrumphed good-naturedly.
- headlamp — headlight.
- heat map — a graphical representation of data in which a spectrum of colours is used to represent the different values
- helpmann — Sir Robert (Murray) 1909–86, Australian dancer, choreographer, and actor.
- helpmate — a companion and helper.
- helpmeet — helpmate.
- hemiopia — hemianopsia.
- hemipode — button quail.
- hemipter — a hemipterous insect
- hempseed — the seed of hemp, used as food for birds.
- hempvine — Any plant of the genus Mikania.
- hempweed — a climbing herb with flowers that smell of vanilla
- hepatoma — a tumor of the liver.
- hog plum — yellow mombin.
- homepage — Alternative form of home page.
- homeport — The port where a vessel is based (not necessarily the one where it is registered).
- homespun — spun or made at home: homespun cloth.
- homotope — (topology, transitive) To define or demonstrate a homotopy of (one map with another).
- homotopy — the relation that exists between two mappings in a topological space if one mapping can be deformed in a continuous way to make it coincide with the other.
- homotype — an organ or part having a structure similar to that of another organ or part; homologue.
- hoop-man — a basketball player.
- hs&e — HS&E relates to guidelines for the safe and clean operation of industrial processes.
- hump day — Wednesday
- humpback — a back that is humped in a convex position.
- humphing — Present participle of humph.
- humphrey — (Duke of Gloucester) 1391–1447, English soldier and statesman (youngest son of Henry IV).
- humpless — having no hump
- hypernym — superordinate (def 4).
- hyphemia — bleeding inside the eye caused by ruptured blood vessels
- hypoderm — Zoology. an underlayer of epithelial cells in arthropods and certain other invertebrates that secretes substances for the overlying cuticle or exoskeleton.
- hypogamy — Act or practice of seeking a spouse of lower socioeconomic status, or caste status than oneself.
- hypogeum — Ancient Architecture. the underground part of a building, as a vault.
- hyponyms — Plural form of hyponym.
- hyponymy — the state or quality of being a hyponym, a term that denotes a subcategory of a more general class: A relationship of hyponymy exists between “dog” and “animal.”.
- hyposmia — A reduced ability to smell and to detect odours.
- ibm pcjr — (computer) (IBM PC Junior) A floppy disk-based home computer with an Intel 8088 CPU and a chiclet keyboard, released in November 1983. The PCjr could be expanded to have two floppy drives and 640 kilobytes of RAM using sidecars. Some even had a mouse and could run drawing programs with popup menus.
- impacted — tightly or immovably wedged in.
- impacter — a person or thing that impacts.
- impactor — an electric or pneumatic power wrench with interchangeable toolhead attachments, used for installing and removing nuts, bolts, and screws.
- impaired — weakened, diminished, or damaged: impaired hearing; to rebuild an impaired bridge.
- impairer — One who, or that which, impairs.
- impaling — Present participle of impale.
- impanate — (of the body of Christ) contained in the bread of the Eucharist