8-letter words containing p, o, e
- heptoses — Plural form of heptose.
- hepworth — Dame Barbara, 1903–75, English sculptor.
- hereupon — upon or on this.
- heroship — The character or personality of a hero.
- hexapods — Plural form of hexapod.
- hexapody — a measure consisting of six feet.
- hexapole — (physics) Anything having six poles or electrodes.
- hipbones — Plural form of hipbone.
- holed up — If you are holed up somewhere, you are hiding or staying there, usually so that other people cannot find or disturb you.
- holotype — the type specimen used in the original description of a species.
- 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).
- homotype — an organ or part having a structure similar to that of another organ or part; homologue.
- honeypot — a pot, as of glass or silver, for storing and serving honey.
- hoopless — without any hoops
- hooplike — Resembling a hoop.
- hoopster — a basketball player.
- hop pole — a pole, usually wooden, up which hop vines are trained
- hopefull — Archaic form of hopeful.
- hopefuls — Plural form of hopeful.
- hopeless — providing no hope; beyond optimism or hope; desperate: a hopeless case of cancer.
- hopewell — a city in E Virginia, on the James River.
- hopfield — a field in which hops are grown
- hopheads — (slang) Plural form of hophead.
- hoplites — Plural form of hoplite.
- hornpipe — an English folk clarinet having one ox horn concealing the reed and another forming the bell.
- horopter — a projection of the points in the visual field corresponding to the aggregate of points registering on the two retinas.
- horsepox — a disease in horses caused by a virus and characterized by eruptions in the mouth and on the skin.
- hosepipe — (UK, South Africa, Southern US) A flexible pipe for carrying water or other liquids; a garden hose.
- hospices — Plural form of hospice.
- hotplate — a portable appliance for cooking, formerly heated by a gas burner placed underneath it, now heated chiefly by an electrical unit in the appliance.
- housepet — A domestic pet, one that lives mostly indoors.
- housetop — the top or roof of a house.
- hypergol — any hypergolic agent.
- hyperion — Classical Mythology. a Titan, the father of Helios, Selene, and Eos.
- hyperons — Plural form of hyperon.
- hyperope — A farsighted person, a hyperopic person, a person with hyperopia.
- hypnoses — the ancient Greek god of sleep.
- hypnotee — a person being hypnotized
- hypobole — the act of anticipating objection for the purpose of refutation
- hypoderm — Zoology. an underlayer of epithelial cells in arthropods and certain other invertebrates that secretes substances for the overlying cuticle or exoskeleton.
- hypogeal — underground; subterranean.
- hypogean — Existing or growing underground.
- hypogene — formed beneath the earth's surface, as granite (opposed to epigene).
- hypogeum — Ancient Architecture. the underground part of a building, as a vault.
- hypopnea — abnormally shallow and slow breathing.
- hypothec — Roman and Civil Law. a mortgage or security held by a creditor on the property of a debtor without possession of it, created either by agreement or by operation of law.
- icy pole — an ice cream or water ice on a stick